Original message: GenZedong users and moderators warned the Lemmygrad administration of chauvinists and people who harassed other users creating a community called Dongistan. Admins from both Discord and Telegram warned us of these reactionary elements and they were preemptively removed from the community

EDIT: We were working on the assumption that they were PatSocs, because that was the information given to us, and we decided to act upon that without further evidence. It was a mistake on our part. The community was therefore restored, but we are investigating the case further.

We are banning trolls which were harassing admins and other members inside Lemmygrad, and we’ve found out that they are a part of a group called “Horde’s People’s Republic of Dongistan” on Telegram.

  • Camarada ForteOPMA
    5•2 years ago

    Sure.

    Some members of the group you are in (Horde’s People’s Republic of Dongistan) were planning to harass Grace, which is a moderator of the GZD community, and they actually did harass her. Then after the crackdown on the trolls from your group infested in Lemmygrad, they kept spamming the Lemmygrad admins and harassing us in general. The mods of HPRD even advocated sending the invite link to the GZD Telegram group to anti-communists just to harass the mods there:

    While the shit you post in your group is weird and sometimes disgusting, I reckon it’s just a few mods who are troubling, most of you are okay, although your choice of associating yourself with them I can’t honestly comprehend, your Telegram group is infested with reactionary stuff.

    I personally disagree with Grace’s moderation style, and her banning of dozens of people because she disagree with their views on Pan-Arabism and Ba’athism. This is a style of moderation that Lemmygrad admins do not advocate, and in fact, fight against it. However, none of that justifies harassing other people, and even compromising a whole community because of your personal issues with someone.

    • @Satanael
      2•2 years ago

      If this is your only evidence of harassment and you are not willing to show more, then you have no real case.

      • Camarada ForteOPMA
        1•2 years ago

        This is not evidence of harassment, this is evidence of the reactionary tendencies of some moderators. The reactionary mods, some of which harassed us, were already banned, which were Dunwich, AzovSlayer and Siri Sirius Serious.

    • @Satanael
      2•2 years ago

      Satanael What you didn’t see in that conversation was that we agreed to not do it precisely because of how shitty it was. I was there and specifically said we shouldn’t do it. If thinking of harassment and not actually doing it now qualifies as harassment then I don’t know what is real harassment. BTW, I am a mod there too and actively try to tone down the community when I can.

      • Camarada ForteOPMA
        0•2 years ago

        What you didn’t see in that conversation was that we agreed to not do it precisely because of how shitty it was.

        I know that you eventually disagreed, but the point of these screenshots is to show that in numerous instances it was discussed ways to particularly harass the mods of GZD. In the comment, I do not say the plans shown had been done, I say they were discussed.

        But that GZD mods and even admins of Lemmygrad were harassed, we basically saw it from our own experience, because our inboxes got spammed during the whole confusion, and we banned those who did such actions against us. I shared these screenshots not to show evidence of harassment, but to show evidence of the reactionary tendencies of some of its moderators.

        I am thankful that this community at least has someone to tone it down, because it often got off limits, stuff that would get anyone banned here. Last time I checked, they banned one moderator for also toning it down (ajegy), so at least I hope you last.