Ye, we obviously can have some acerbic users as well, can't avoid it 12k registrations. But if someone is too toxic consistently, we tend to get rid of them. Still doesn't make the instance tankie thought π
They are not normally tankies
What, in your opinion, makes us "tankies" from what you just said? Respect for the neopronouns, intolerance towards Genai-hater trolls, or mod actions towards someone who went on a harassment campaign towards one of our users?
Anarchists always had very similar critiques towards capitalism as Marxists. Where we differ is what we do about it, and these actions is what can label someone a "tankie"
This stinks of astroturfing
3 mods for 12k active users? This is not nearly enough imho
Oh man, I have a lot of tankie sealions to post about
Nothing is better than lower decks. Fite me!
They also track your unique phone identifiers and your browser. Better be good at scrubbing
Honestly, even if Linus is completely in the right, this kind of behaviour is not ok. Good that his therapy took him out of that mindspace.
Spoiler this with a content warning please. I know you want to present a sample of the harassment, but you're also effectively "boosting" it.
I think people shorten it based on the domain name, so I doubt this would work.
I disagree with your framing. I think you're being dishonest in your framing on what caused the mod actions. At the end of the day we and Ada are beholden to our respective users, and as it turns out, they think those were the right choices.
And yes, we're going to take action about harassment of our own users, that's the duty of an instance admin. I want to point out however that all this brouhaha is over a 7days ban. Literally the mildest of punishments ever, and you're at the point of pondering what's rotten in the whole instance and writing walls of text, over a short term "chill out" ban.