NANO is life.

https://www.nano-editor.org/

Exactly, and it should never be. When my personal opinions get in the way of moderating, then that’s a fail.

It’s not a slippery slope when he’s a living example of what I’m talking about.

“Buuuut my bullshit source is special! I’m different!”

No it isn’t, and no you aren’t. I swear, we need an alternate community to PTB - call it WLB - Whiny Little Bitches.

I’ve always been in favor of a two state solution, the problem is Israel won’t do it on their own, and nobody has the balls to occupy them and force them to do it.

For the love of GOD READ THE RULES BEFORE POSTING! They’re RIGHT THERE! STICKIED! At the top of the group!

We do not allow videos!

You realize, every time you make a new account and get banned again we all just laugh at you a little bit harder, right?

What is this? #35? #36? LOL.

Related:

https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/2025/03/statement-from-the-press-secretary-50c7/

Use a better source and you won’t have this problem. For now?

If you think I’m zionist when my personal opinion is Israel needs to be militarily forced into a two state solution then I’m doing my job correctly.

No, because if we allow one source that’s questionable, then the next time this comes up it will be “But, but, you allowed this other bullshit source, why not miiiiiiiine??!???” We aren’t opening that door.

We went over this with the legit journalist posting from Substack. Don’t care, Substack isn’t a source.

Read what other people are telling you in this very thread, YDI.

Shitty sources get removed, full stop.

The author doesn’t enter into it.

The quality of the article doesn’t enter into it.

We aren’t giving traffic to them. Or Fox, or Newsmax or Oann, or, etc. etc. etc.

If you don’t like that, feel free to post elsewhere, we have higher standards.

For [email protected] if you look at the rule, it’s that opinion based articles “MAY” be removed, they aren’t just automatically removed because they’re opinion.

As a rule, I don’t have a beef with opinion articles as long as they are informative and fact based. If they go off the rails into “Well, Ukraine shouldn’t have antagonized Russia!” or some such, I’ll remove it for misinfornation, not because it’s opinion.

What “everyone thinks” doesn’t enter into it without evidence. The majority of voters thought Trump would make a fine President in the last election. In a lot of cases “most people” are wrong.

The mods set and enforce the rules of the community, if someone isn’t breaking the rules, they can be as obnoxious and hated as they can stand.

We looked at them, repeatedly, and were actively waiting for them to cross that line, when they did, we took action.

This happens on the back end a lot, there are a couple of other accounts (which shall remain nameless) under discussion now.

In those two cases, they aren’t in my communities so I approach it as “not my circus, not my clowns”, but provided an opinion. I think they’re ban worthy, but it’s ultimately up to the mods of those communities and admins to make that call.

We don’t moderate based on fee fees. We moderate on rule breaking behavior. UM was right on the line, until he wasn’t.

But this is besides the point here of removing posts from shitty sources, which Monk also was not doing.

No, the mods discussed their account multiple times and each time reached the conclusion they were not breaking the rules… until they did, and when they did, they got booted.

There’s a lot behind the scenes that you aren’t aware of.

Life has been better since you blocked politics? Must have happened after you got banned:

https://lemmy.world/modlog?page=1&actionType=All&userId=1413078

Universal Monk knew right where the line was, when they crossed it, they were gone.

Others didn’t care where the line was.

And if someone wants to be RUDE about it, THAT’S when I put on the PTB hat and go “Fuck you, I don’t have to explain shit!” ;)

It’s easier when there’s not a lot in the queue. I’ve had times where I wake up in the morning and there are 20+ or 30+ unresolved reports and I’m like “Oh, what fresh hell is this?”

Generally it’s either:

1. A troll being reported over and over, resolve it once and it resolves all of them.

or 2) Two people getting into an internet slap fight, arguing back and forth and reporting all the other persons comments.

At that point, I go up the chain, find the last rational comment one of them made, keep that, nuke the rest and ban them both for 24 hours. Too much of modding is like parenting siblings. “I don’t CARE who started it, you’re BOTH grounded.”