Melon [she/her,they/them]

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Joined 4 years ago
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Cake day: July 26th, 2020

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  • In case anyone is to be curious of my whereabouts, I am retiring this account for two reasons. One is the normal spring cleaning that should be done. 2 years! Way too long. The other reason is because I brought up this issue with purr in the moderator chat, and was not satisfied by the admin response. I felt it reflected poorly on their priorities, as they refuse to revisit the possible unbanning of purr, even if only as a gesture of self-crit and goodwill. However, the issue probably deserves to be laid to rest. Hopefully this obscure comment in a dead thread will be a graceful enough "exit".

    I will still be :amogus: but not as a mod or on this account. I need to come up with another nice username in the meantime.
















  • Not all websites are blocked, they don't block the entire Western internet. Most of their blocks have to do with protectionism regarding internet platforms. They want their The Facebook and MySpace equivalents to be domestically operated.



  • You're right, u/purr didn't deserve a ban.

    Spoilering this because they were banned for an exceptionally stupid/undeserved reason

    They were involved in a veganism-related struggle sesh 4 months ago. They brought up their discomfort seeing the language of sexual violence and slavery being applied to animals.

    They were active in a thread where a vegan doubled down on using "slavery" as a means to describe animal husbandry. That racist comment is still up, but purr got banned for reacting negatively to it.

    The ban reason was: "Constant disinformation, condescension, generally being an asshole"

    A mod also removed a statement u/purr made about being a black person.