Mildly Infuriating

and they’re an admin, if not owner of it.

there is a difference between doing moderation for the good of the community and being kid on a powertrip. when person asks "which of the new trek is worth watching" and then the mod starts deleting and banning people saying "x is not good, you are better watching y", just because the mod is fan of "x", that is not moderating, that is just shameful.

the mod is not owner of the community, it is the community that creates the content. we literally just had reddit-exit because of that.

I get that the admin has control. And yes, i love that we can just go off to another server and have the same discussion. However there is something to be said about having a centralized server for niche discussion like star trek. That's what it seems they're trying to accomplish anyway. There's no rules or list of banned sites which i could totally understand. However, this comes entirely across as a petty mod not happy about something a site said once. The only purpose being so heavy handed with moderation like that is only going to splinter what was looking to be one of the most unified communities on the fediverse. It's anthitical to what the instance is trying to accomplish, becoming a centralized spot for star trek related communities on Lemmy.

I can understand that too knowing the context. I personallay still think that article did was thought provoking enough to Garner discussion in the comments, which is half the point of a site like this.

But i agree, it's why I made the post! This is something to be discussed as a community as we all escape reddit. This is the time to be ironing these things out. We need these discussions and rules to prevent a mod from feeling they need to ban someone for "drama". Have clear defined rules agreed soon by the community and that problem is solved. Banning people trying to talk about getting a more clear ruleset in place is just asinine. Soon it's only going to be that mod posting and nobody commenting.

I also get things may have been one way on Reddit, but that also doesn't mean it automatically applies here. Even if it did it's not hard to copy and paste rules from reddit to here.

Also, did I see in the modlog they ( @ValueSubtracted@startrek.website is lurking and should really learn this site is way more transparent than reddit) banned you too?

EDIT: Just checked the modlog. They banned you for making this post I'm replying to on a different instance. How anyone could not see that as a red flag of petty retributive mod abuse then I don't know what is. For what it's worth, I banned them from my (much smaller but hopefully gonna pic up some Trekkies soon) instance so they'll never know what's being missed 😜 of course I'd happily reverse it if they cool off and explain their actions.

They didn’t get banned for questioning a policy. They got banned for making a new post “calling them out on their power hungry behaviour” once the discussion didn’t go their way.