Context: PugJesus often spams low quality posts across the dozen or so communities they mod, apparently downvoting low effort spam on my frontpage is trolling. The only other action in the modlog is a different ban for 74 years for “Mass downvoting innocuous content,” so it definitely seems they are just banning people that dislike their spam. Glad we’re not missing out on the reddit mod experience here.
I find it hilarious that OP does not respond to logical arguments like this. Only facts supporting their existing viewpoint are presented, everything else is ignored.
Which is easy enough to deal with for just one account (block them), but since this seems a trend across many users, becomes a major problem that severely hinders if not outright halts any growth of the entire concept of the Threadiverse. 😭
I have the sneaking suspicion this is a lot of hay from people that don’t like Pug’s politics. This thread is pretty dumb even by internet drama standards.
Yeah it feels like a solution looking for a problem - being down on him and trying to find any excuse to do so. What’s so funny is that I’m sure there are actual good reasons to do so (at least, if someone were targeting myself I know they could find good material to use - literally nobody is perfect:-), but this one seems just so genuinely dumb.
Which feels so very much like Reddit. Dayum, I had forgotten what it was like.
Yeah, I agree wholeheartedly. I had a nice hearty laugh at one of the ml admins criticizing pug for cultivating ideological bubbles, so it hasn’t been a total waste of time. I guess it takes one to know one?
That one seemed to me to miss the point entirely - like even if PJ was a PTB, overall (I have no idea), that’s not what seems to be happening here, which is supposed to be the point of this post.
Which of course was presented without any evidence supporting OP’s claim, and where they ironically provided a bunch of evidence to the contrary instead (e.g. admitting to mass-downvoting).
Freedom means that your rights end where someone else’s begins, subject to the natural laws of the universe.
Except ofc to authoritarians who want what they want and also for no-one else to have the same, and where truth vs. falsehood depends on who said something rather than reality. “Freedom”, along with every other word, means whatever they want it to mean in that moment of time, as a tool to achieve their objective.