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It's not fun interacting with them when they often want to engage in ad hominems. This is why I have no interest in the tankie triad.

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[–] spankmonkey@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (15 children)

There are multiple posts there already about the topic including the most popular one that was locked because the mods kept failing to understand what anyone was saying.

If you want to know what people think, check out the up to down vote ratio in the comments. Feel free to accuse .world of brigading like those mods or whatever other stupid excuse based on a lack of understanding how instance populations work.

I was banned because Unruffled is a petty jerk, so I won't be posting another thread about the same topic of how petty and toxic a small group of prolific mods of dbzer0 communities are. Pointing that out is clearly not allowed in yptb.

[–] db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 week ago (5 children)
[–] spankmonkey@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago (4 children)

I'm sorry, are you unable to count votes to see what people think about your mods?

[–] db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

We really don't use votes for yptb. We have specific keywords if one wants to tally. Likewise actual voting happens in our governance comm, and our actual users seem to be onboard with what we've been doing consistently

[–] spankmonkey@lemmy.world -1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Ah yes, the opinions of the people who already agree with you are the only ones that matter. No need for self reflecfion!

[–] db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I've self reflected and discovered I've done nothing wrong

[–] spankmonkey@lemmy.world -1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

what people think about your mods?

Unless you are also those several different mods, we are referring to other people.

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