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submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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This isn’t bitching so much as a curiosity. Here in Lemmy.ml, would it be considered abusive for an admin to actively participate in a discussion, then get upset and delete the same comments they themselves have been replying to?

I’d just like to clarify the administration posture of this instance. There are lots of accusations of unfairness here. I don’t know if that’s an individualistic thing or a matter of policy.

Mainly asking so I can more easily identify what discussions are not safe to participate in.

Cheers!

Tl;Dr: No, avoid conversations with mods/admins

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

I was also banned and had all my comments removed after having a long debate with a mod on the world news sub. When I did not accept their viewpoint, they eventually nuked everything and just banned me.

And the debate was all about whether government propaganda news sources were good sources of media. I was asserting that they weren’t and that you should be able to use whatever tools exist to assess them for bias.

But they really don’t like it when you undermine their sources of information.

It’s inevitably an alienating shit show whenever I have to interact with users from .ml, since they go out and pollute other instances.

In fact, if you look at the history of many of the users in this thread who are upvoted for insulting you, you can see them polluting and insulting their way all over the place.