I have to note the claims made in that post, that I could attest to, were misrepresented.

The trashbag comment is obviously out of line, but it was never reported to us (I checked the log). We can’t see everything and we might be too small a team at this stage for how large Lemmygrad has grown. We see things as a third-party (unless we’re directly involved in a comment thread) and so we rely on reports to not only tell us about rule-breaking content, but also provide necessary context so that we can take the most appropriate action.

We are also thinking of bringing a Muslim comrade to the administration team so that we can get some more representation and good advice in those situations, especially that we now have many Muslim users on lemmygrad.

Secondly, I personally banned this user from the Palestine community (I’m the only mod) so I know everything about it. The ban was temporary, for a couple days, for breaking our “be respectful” rule. I noted in my comment that I did not necessarily disagree that Israeli communists should leave the country if they don’t join Palestinian resistance groups (contradicting the first claim nameless partisan made), but the user was asking a question in good faith and nameless partisan instantly became aggressive and insulting towards them.

Generally, that user likes to provoke and I think it’s pretty clear from the examples in this post. The goodbye post they made was a provocation too, a sort of ultimatum “either change or I’m not coming back, and I’m taking as many people as I can with me”.

I’ve legit had people – and other Muslims too – message me to ask about nameless partisan, concerned about some of the things they say. The last straw might have been when they hinted towards a total genocide of Israelis, but then when asked for an explicit phrasing, backpedalled (despite everything pointing to the contrary up until then). Even their new display name is a provocation. Nobody has ever called them a “mean Arab terrorist” or any of those individual three words. edit: NP had a comment removed for “advocating terrorism”, which I was not aware of when looking at the timeline originally (not that they helped establish a timeline of actions taken against them, preferring to talk in vague wording. But anyway). There is a difference between calling someone a terrorist and saying their comment advocated for terrorism. The first one is an accusation, it makes them responsible. It’s something they are. The second wording is saying that they may have inadvertently said something of that nature. It doesn’t accuse them or places the responsibility of them. Big difference. So yes, nobody called NP a terrorist.

You might notice then that at no point did nameless partisan contact us to discuss how they felt on lemmygrad or want to engage in dialogue. All they wanted was to provoke and get into arguments.

At this point nameless partisan is not banned from lemmygrad, but it was in discussion. They can claim they were compared to a terrorist all they want, but they’ve been told several times to be more respectful towards other users as we are all communists here (until proven to the contrary) and they didn’t.

The reason I’m only saying all of this now is because as an admin, I don’t want to single out individual users on the site and influence opinion. At this stage however, I think it’s clear nameless partisan is not interested in dialogue and resolving conflicts but thrives in creating it. Don’t dish it out if you can’t take it.