Lord of the memes

Life comes first, and I hope everything goes well with the upcoming surgery @Zoidsberg@lemmy.ca. Please don't add a single bit of stress regarding anything on lemmy to your life right now.

I didn't catch this drama live, but someone linked it to me after the fact, and I was honestly pretty disappointed to see an admin talk to users this way. I don't think the reporter was wrong to notify the admins that someone was advocating murder on their instance, and they certainly didn't deserve to be banned and mocked for it.

Then I started seeing other similar posts (like the one Blaze linked in a different comment) showing that this wasn't an isolated thing, and I was a bit disheartened because I love sharing memes here, but it's really hard to build a community when users are worried about an admin lashing out at them. I've lost some trust. =(

Thanks for this post! Just wanted to chime in that I would support moving to dbzer0.

Best wishes on your partner's upcoming surgery. Hope things go well.

What are the official policies of midwest.social and of lotrmemes regarding comments like that?

I wouldn't use an instance on which support for this killing was official policy, but I can respect the decision of an instance admin to permit expressions of support (and of opposition) out of a commitment to facilitating free speech, as long as lotrmemes itself is not a place where such expressions are allowed. I would rather not see any sort of divisive real-world issues discussed in this particular community.

I'm just here for the memes, some of the best memes saved in my phone are from this community.

I see no need to shut it down over some drama, especially since it's just that

Doesn't seem as that big of a problem, that it would warrant migrating. Intentionally killing this community seems to be overkill.

Didn't know much about this community, but honestly it gets some of my respect for pushing against the current main narrative.

Violence isn't necessarily always a bad thing - otherwise, Europe and Japan would look drastically different today.

Leaving out that the reporter was a mass reporter likely stirring up trouble, I think it's natural in dire and extreme times for people to wish for more extreme actions to happen to evil people. It's not as of people wishing that will necessarily do it (just in case, I wish for enough money to buy a house and retire with the basics), it's just a way for them to vent the frustration they have at Injustice they can't otherwise do anything about.

Not to mention silencing the side that wishes death against those advocating for the death of others always seemed to be... Hypocritical to me.

So in all, I think this community's admins did good. If people left over that, maybe it's for the better not to have them.

Well, not gonna beat around the bush, was having a shitty day that day for one thing and I did find the report for someone saying "do elon next!" annoying, and then found out the reporter is a known mass reporter for shit like that, so I at the time decided to just "nip it in the bud" if you will. I didn't think at the time it was a big deal but I guess it was. After a bit of time passed I decided to reverse the ban. I keep forgetting reports go to both instances' admins, not just me, so reporting something that is against other instances' rules is fair.

This probably won't change anyone's mind but that is my side of the story.

Way less drama and way more transparency than the current state of 196 on the blahaj.zone instance.

Zoidsberg you're still a good mod in my books and I'm not leaving the community over this. I'll sub to the new community too but it sounds like the comments on this thread are in agreement to stay here.

Thanks for the status update and best of luck with your partner's health.

I don't have the bandwidth to pick up mod work myself but hopefully you can find another volunteer who can help share the load on days where Lemmy is taking a backseat for you. All my respect to anyone willing to moderate, we couldn't do this without y'all.

Just let the community keep running and see what happens. I'll help moderate it.

It'd be a shame to lose one of the few major communities on Lemmy not hosted by one of the major servers, imho. If midwest.social admins keep making unpopular decisions, then this community will probably wither and the db0 one will take over. But I feel like that ban was pretty funny even though I disagree with it, so I'm willing to give the benefit of the doubt.

The alternative could also occur, if some shit goes down on db0 and the new community actually implodes. I have no reason to expect that to happen, but you never know. Best to let things play out, I'm subscribed to both communities anyhow and crossposting is also something that is quite simple on Lemmy.

Also there's about 1000 posts and 10k comments on this community and it's mostly good content, built up over like 2 years. I just hate leaving all that behind and having to start over. I think of new users viewing by top posts of all time and this is one of the better Lemmy communities for that.

Hello,

Thank you for the post. Good luck with real life, seems to be a tough situation.

After reading all the comments and info, I'd like it to stay. It's one of my favorite communities.