Comment by _dain_
1 year ago
This is exactly what the opponents of CoC-culture warned about: it's a clever rhetorical smokescreen to allow leftist freaks to do power grabs like this. Words like "harm", "inclusive", "community" etc have dual-meanings, one for the clique insiders and another for the outsiders.
And lmao wow, one of the mods involved in this is also a mod at lobste.rs. No wonder the "discussion" there looked so uncanny.
wrt. Lobsters, check your facts.
- Moderation actions are public on lobsters: https://lobste.rs/moderations
- Irene wasn’t active in that discussion.
- Some of the most upvoted comments were against the moderation clique.
Irene also wasn't involved in me removing srid's attempted brigading or it being the last straw for his ban.
The author of this article doesn't seem particularly interested in checking facts, they implied some nasty stuff about my actions and motivation without bothering to read the publicly available info or contact me.
I'm not sure if you realize that people aren't as stupid as you seem to think they are, and they are getting tired of this ridiculous rhetoric, and in this particular case, it is quite provable that you are lying.
We know the game well, pretend you are legitimate at all costs, whether you are telling the truth or not. Well guess what? That doesn't inspire anyone to do anything, and only inflates your ego.
You know what does inspire folks? Being honest, even when you don't have to be. This is about more than just the BS unsubstantiated claim that Srid is somehow a "dangerous person" as so often is dubiously suggested, this is about folks being tired of this garbage already. It is quite ironic, in my view, that the only "crime" srid is commiting is being a part of a different culture. I thought we were all about inclusivity? What happened to that?
Tell the truth, or stfu so those that do can speak, I leave it in your hands. Please and thank you.
There was no attempted brigading. All srid did was post about a tutorial written on nixos.asia, I don’t see any problem in that. I was involved in the thread and it was hexa who posted an off-topic message in the thread. If anyone was in the wrong here, it was you and hexa.
> srid's attempted brigading
Nowhere in the ban log you mentioned "attempted brigading"; rather what you mentioned, as reasons for the ban, was "lots of off-topic stories" & "[using] Lobsters to fight with the NixOS project".
https://twitter.com/sridca/status/1751586246026313906
Neither of which is true, of course, nor can they be proven.
To let the readers judge for themselves, here are my lobste.rs submissions & comments:
https://lobste.rs/~srid/stories
https://lobste.rs/~srid/threads
And here's the submission that got me banned (after a NixOS moderator, Hexa, commented on it so as to derail the submission):
https://archive.is/Z2BU3
https://archive.is/75A7j
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The mod that deleted some* comments (wasn't the one related to NixOS) wrote something, so through the public mod actions, think found the discussion you speak of. Was it** https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40107370
without commenting on this specific case because TLDR: the same argument could be used in a situation where moderators allow harassment against certain groups in the name of freedom of speech, while moderating harassment against others.
moderation is prone to power plays no matter which angle you approach it with.
"clever"