EDIT: Two responses from admins who dishonestly reframed the events of my ban and apparently refuse to explain it. Apparently “long time users” get different treatment.

EDIT2: The reason was finally given that “Have you stopped beating your wife?” in response to someone trying to put words in your mouth and ask loaded questions is a banworthy set of words. Incredible I know.

I would like explanation for the thinking that led to me being recently banned and branded a racist.

I was randomly attacked by a bad faith troll who later let slip that she was bearing a grudge based on some other encounter from 8 months ago. The attack consisted of an attempt to paint me as a racist for this simple and honest reading error.

I am a principled Marxist Leninist, active in real life and any reading of my contributions will support this and refute this slur on my character.

I can, at most, stretch to forgiving the ridiculous idea that I was the one being “toxic” here, and not simply holding up a mirror to the toxicity of the troll who attacked me for an innocent mistake, fantasised about me doing hypothetical racist things, asked me loaded questions and tried to put words in my mouth to fool credulous onlookers.

What I cannot ever accept is the allegation that I somehow engaged in “racism” anywhere in this interchange or in any of my other comments in the years I’ve participated on here. I deserve an explanation as to what you think you saw as racist in any of my comments.

I expect a complete apology, a clearing of my name and censure against my attacker and abuser. Those involved shamed themselves with their actions. You have an opportunity to make amends and undo that injustice you’ve inflicted.

I run a large ML forum with weekly views of tens of thousands and I recognise exactly the temptations you’ve allowed yourselves to succumb to of abusing your power for a false sense of righteousness based on petty bullying and unfair treatment. I know that I’m not the only one who’s been a victim of this on lemmygrad.

The contributors to this forum deserve better moderation and better judgement from the admins in general. The current process of banning people without right of reply is abusive and dishonourable. That can be a separate discussion.

  • LarkinDeParkOP
    13·
    3 days ago

    You got banned for 15 days, nobody likes it, but it happens.

    You don’t even have an explanation for why you do this. It’s just so you can wield power over people. It doesn’t achieve anything else. It gives you pleasure. Do you think I “cooled off”?

    You’re the one who brought it back up, everyone else on the site had already moved on. You could have also contacted us privately.

    How? I was banned from the site for using a common expression remember? In response to an attack. You already admitted this. How could I have contacted you privately? Why would I? So you could ignore it and nobody else would see your abusive behaviour?

    we don’t shut people up for posting and appealing their ban. And the fact that you were able to find a similar line in another thread is proof that we don’t silence people but let them hash things out instead.

    There is no appeal? There’s only this kind of thing? You silence people whether it’s permanent or not. This is just mincing words.

    You wanted to stir up trouble to go out with a bang as so many others have tried before you…

    You’re not the first to try this. You’re not doing anything new or clever and you should stop before you embarrass yourself further.

    This all sounds like a you problem. If you keep seeing these assholes everywhere…

    You’re just making a scene and it’s getting old.

    It was old yesterday.

    Why are you even still doing this? Clearly you’re over this community, so just log off, no?

    I told you yesterday, I wanted to give you the right to reply.

    Okay, so “will you also stop beating your wife” is a very common edgy reddit response. Cool. Does that make it okay to say?

    In the context of someone asking loaded questions it’s always fair to say. There’s more to online fora than reddit you know?

    Are we allowed to say the r-word because 100 years ago it was a common medical term,

    Jesus.

    should have picked your words more carefully

    I can’t believe you’re doubling down on this. It’s the most pathetic excuse for a ban I’ve seen in a long time.

    You overreacted to someone who was perhaps not the nicest

    Hallelujah! Finally we got there! The first acknowledgement from anyone that I wasn’t alone in the exchange.

    Skipping the paragraphs of ranting.

    Make a fucking report and stop being a petulant child.

    I fucking KNEW this is what you’d come back with! You have a real problem with paedos on this site. Deal with it. This paedo was paranoid about their kiddie porn being criticised and carried a grudge for 8 months about it. This is all that this entire thing has been about. I can’t actually believe that thread is still up and the users not banned. I’ve already reported it to you. Leave it up by all means and endorse it.