EDIT: Two responses from admins who dishonestly reframed the events of my ban
and apparently refuse to explain it. Apparently “long time users” get different
treatment. EDIT2: The reason was finally given that “Have you stopped beating
your wife?
[https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=have%20you%20stopped%20beating%20your%20wife]”
in response to someone trying to put words in your mouth and ask loaded
questions is a banworthy set of words. Incredible I know. ---- I would like
explanation for the thinking that led to me being recently banned and branded a
racist. I was randomly attacked by a bad faith troll who later let slip that she
was bearing a grudge based on some other encounter from 8 months ago. The attack
consisted of an attempt to paint me as a racist for this simple and honest
reading error. I am a principled Marxist Leninist, active in real life and any
reading of my contributions will support this and refute this slur on my
character. I can, at most, stretch to forgiving the ridiculous idea that I was
the one being “toxic” here, and not simply holding up a mirror to the toxicity
of the troll who attacked me for an innocent mistake, fantasised about me doing
hypothetical racist things, asked me loaded questions and tried to put words in
my mouth to fool credulous onlookers. What I cannot ever accept is the
allegation that I somehow engaged in “racism” anywhere in this interchange or in
any of my other comments in the years I’ve participated on here. I deserve an
explanation as to what you think you saw as racist in any of my comments. I
expect a complete apology, a clearing of my name and censure against my attacker
and abuser. Those involved shamed themselves with their actions. You have an
opportunity to make amends and undo that injustice you’ve inflicted. I run a
large ML forum with weekly views of tens of thousands and I recognise exactly
the temptations you’ve allowed yourselves to succumb to of abusing your power
for a false sense of righteousness based on petty bullying and unfair treatment.
I know that I’m not the only one who’s been a victim of this on lemmygrad. The
contributors to this forum deserve better moderation and better judgement from
the admins in general. The current process of banning people without right of
reply is abusive and dishonourable. That can be a separate discussion.
I expect a complete apology, a clearing of my name and censure against my attacker and abuser. Those involved shamed themselves with their actions. You have an opportunity to make amends and undo that injustice you’ve inflicted.
I run a large ML forum with weekly views of tens of thousands and I recognise exactly the temptations you’ve allowed yourselves to succumb to of abusing your power for a false sense of righteousness based on petty bullying and unfair treatment. I know that I’m not the only one who’s been a victim of this on lemmygrad.
The contributors to this forum deserve better moderation and better judgement from the admins in general. The current process of banning people without right of reply is abusive and dishonourable. That can be a separate discussion.
This was a very strange thing for someone to do. Larkin could've just said nothing and been chill, instead they did this whole anime villain rant about how they've been unjustly banned for two whole weeks. and went all Phoenix Wright in the comments, arguing with people and claiming everyone was "lying" because they just took the most bad faith interpretation of everyone else's words they could.
Especially considering how patient the mods were with them when just posting this screed alone is probably worth a ban, instead the mods allowed a unilateral community decision to ban them. Such mod overreach!
This was a very strange thing for someone to do. Larkin could've just said nothing and been chill, instead they did this whole anime villain rant about how they've been unjustly banned for two whole weeks. and went all Phoenix Wright in the comments, arguing with people and claiming everyone was "lying" because they just took the most bad faith interpretation of everyone else's words they could.
Especially considering how patient the mods were with them when just posting this screed alone is probably worth a ban, instead the mods allowed a unilateral community decision to ban them. Such mod overreach!