The gist of it is, the mods do not agree with how the blahaj admin moderates, and how they apply the instance rules to the community. The neopronoun stuff could be an example (see: if someone was approaching it in good faith, and got banned for it - I don’t have an example of that, but I also haven’t looked), but isn’t really the gripe here.
Again, the biggest problem here is just the community mods suddenly saying “Hi guys, we’re over at .world now and c/196 is locked. Go there now” with very little notice, no community input, and scant details up front about the actual issue they had. The fact that the actual conflicts weren’t outlined in more detail is why people are jumping to “it’s because of dragon trolls”. There is a user who uses neopronouns who often caused a stir, and there was controversy around how they/people misgendering them were dealt with, but that’s not it in itself from my perspective, looking into it further.
Yeah, a problem with these arguments is that it takes time to go through with them start to end and the popcorn-munching audience (such as myself) have to watch them episode by episode. This results in having incomplete information on the actual situation.
A more reasonable way would be to wait until the season ends and then read the summary. But needlessly meddling into things is way spicier and hard to resist.
100% - trust me, I also jumped to the same conclusion based on initial reactions until I was like “Wait, did a mod or admin say something more specific somewhere else?”. Not everyone has interest or bandwidth to do so [helped that I was hungover yesterday, so I rotted on Lemmy all day].
…come to think of it, there’s lessons that are applicable to the IRL news cycle too, lol.
This is not really true, though not entirely irrelevant either. Some useful information below:
https://lemmy.world/comment/14552252
The gist of it is, the mods do not agree with how the blahaj admin moderates, and how they apply the instance rules to the community. The neopronoun stuff could be an example (see: if someone was approaching it in good faith, and got banned for it - I don’t have an example of that, but I also haven’t looked), but isn’t really the gripe here.
Again, the biggest problem here is just the community mods suddenly saying “Hi guys, we’re over at .world now and c/196 is locked. Go there now” with very little notice, no community input, and scant details up front about the actual issue they had. The fact that the actual conflicts weren’t outlined in more detail is why people are jumping to “it’s because of dragon trolls”. There is a user who uses neopronouns who often caused a stir, and there was controversy around how they/people misgendering them were dealt with, but that’s not it in itself from my perspective, looking into it further.
Yeah, a problem with these arguments is that it takes time to go through with them start to end and the popcorn-munching audience (such as myself) have to watch them episode by episode. This results in having incomplete information on the actual situation.
A more reasonable way would be to wait until the season ends and then read the summary. But needlessly meddling into things is way spicier and hard to resist.
I should probably hold back more…
100% - trust me, I also jumped to the same conclusion based on initial reactions until I was like “Wait, did a mod or admin say something more specific somewhere else?”. Not everyone has interest or bandwidth to do so [helped that I was hungover yesterday, so I rotted on Lemmy all day].
…come to think of it, there’s lessons that are applicable to the IRL news cycle too, lol.