Lodion 🇦🇺, lodion@aussie.zone

I don’t remember seeing anything of yours reported, and from a quick skim I don’t see any issues with your posts.

First some context… I don’t want to be too prescriptive on what is or is not allowed on various communities here on AZ. I’d like them (communities) to find their own voice and audience, and self-determine what is acceptable… within the confines of the global AZ rules.

Having said that… due to the nature of it, this specific community could probably do with some guard rails…. but more importantly, an active moderator to advance the development of the community itself. To that end I’ve made Gorgritch_Umie_Killa a moderator, will remove the two idle ones shortly.

My advice.. moderation should remain as neutral and unbiased as possible. Allowable content from one political viewpoint, must be allowed from others. ie links to stickers from Getup being allowed means a similar link for HON promotional should also be allowed.

As for AI generated content, personally I don’t want to view/read it at all. Not sure exactly how to manage it across AZ, this will need further discussion and thought. I’d like to ban it outright, but that doesn’t seem feasible. Some sort of mandatory tagging in thread titles perhaps…

Hamas has said that includes killing all 1.75 million Israeli Sunni Muslims too.

Got a source for that? I’ve seen you state it as fact multiple times now.

You see how that’s a bad thing, right?

See Nath’s comment about us not being the shapers of the community or its discussions. Users are free to reply or ignore as they see fit to other user posts/comments.

Choosing to remain silent should not be allowed to give someone ranting about lebensraum

As I previously posted, (twice now), that is not my interpretation of the comment on the article you posted. Only if you view the comment in a vaccum could you come to the conclusion you have. It seems you’ve either ignored my interpretation, or don’t understand it.

If I were jewish and posted in support of legislation put in place to protect fellow jews, and someone on the internet leapt to the conclusion I was a nazi because the legislation in question is right leaning… I’d probably do my best to ignore them too. Seagoon doesn’t owe you an explanation for your misunderstanding.

I’m done posting on this topic unless you have something new to say.

From another of my comments (the news article the comment was made under referred to banned phrases in QLD):

I took Seagoon_’s comment to be in support of the ban on particular phrases, by highlighting another dog whistle for nazis. Before this, I (like Nath) did not know this was a nazi dog whistle.

I fully believe that the user in question is a Nazi. There is no other rational explanation for their behaviour .

There are other explanations, such the one from my comment you replied to. You may not agree with my interpretation, and Seagoon has not posted to clarify the thinking behind their comment. If it becomes clear that a user is a nazi, I’ll take appropriate action, as I have done with previous users.

Any space that allows that user is a Nazi bar.

I disagree with your characterization of Seagoon as a nazi, this is categorically not the case.

In this case, with the understanding of your comment… there is no point for them to try and engage further, for the reasons others have noted.

Giving you the benefit of the doubt, I think you chose a bad phrase to make your point and have not clarified this in subsequent comments.

I took Seagoon_’s comment to be in support of the ban on particular phrases, by highlighting another dog whistle for nazis. Before this, I (like Nath) did not know this was a nazi dog whistle.

I don’t believe Seagoon_ is a nazi. I do believe they’re a zionist. In Australia as it stands… one is illegal, the other is practically government policy.

To say anyone in support of the new legislation in QLD is a nazi, as you have implied, is an extreme take on the situation. I have many issues with the legislation as it has been passed, but do not believe supporters of it are automatically nazis.

As Nath has commented, as a rule we let human to human discussions run their course… unless they’re going off the rails. Simply posting something you do not believe, or you do not agree with is not grounds for a comment to be removed.

I’ve made a change to security policy, but am not across any instances running NodeBB with which to test.

Thanks for the ping. Without getting into details, this is a security measure to block AI bots that were scraping aussie.zone and effectively DDoSing us.

If there are specific apps/platforms that are incorrectly being caught in this, I can allow them on a case by case basis.

I’ve created /c/aussocialism , but consider it on probation. Political ideology communities can be a lightning rod for trolls and general drama. I don’t want either here. If it becomes an issue I’ll shut down the community and it can find a new home.

100% agree. Sadly most of the people conflating these concepts are doing so deliberately to push their own agendas.

Upgraded to 0.19.15

I’ve seen them both at different times. We’re overdue for another lemmy upgrade… I’ll try and get that done later tonight.

Dunno about the mods, but the AZ admins are 100% happy to continue to platform racists>

Untrue. Starting with a statement of “fact” like that immediately has me questioning if you are posting in good faith.

When alerted and given information, they’ll maybe remove one or two offending posts but do absolutely nothing about the user despite a repeated history of it.>

The information you’ve previously compiled was either moderated already, or deleted by author when I saw most of if. What remained were ambiguous, possibly offensive comments if interpreted in particular ways . Either way… I didn’t see anything warranting further action than had already occurred. That and your actions at the time, harassing said user in every thread they posted in, had me take your input with a large grain of salt.

As far as I’m concerned the instance is run in very very bad faith.>

I don’t think there is anything I can say to convince you how wrong you are on this one. We do the best with the information available to us, and we’re only human.

As for your edit:

why you refuse to take meaningful action>

I’m not. I’m happy to ban users when it is warranted.

why you refuse to take meaningful action against racism towards Aboriginal peoples>

Can you point me towards any such content on AZ?

allow said racist to continue to operate on your platform?>

I’ve not seen any unaddressed reports for them that warrant action on my part. I’m not online 24x7 though, so often reports are addressed by other mods/admins before I see what was reported.

Looking over comments from this user, I see plenty to dislike. But I won’t ban a user because I dislike them, their opinions or necessarily how they express them.

Re-read my previous comment, I won’t be commenting further.

No. AZ isn’t run by rules lawyers, no interest in posting every single possible action that contravenes “don’t be a dick”.

Yes.. no response in the sub 1 hour timeframe since you messaged me.

I consider editorialised headlines to break global rule 0 of AZ, especially when being deliberately antagonistic in attempting to provoke a fight from those with differing opinions to you. ie don’t be a dick. If you want to pick a fight, do it elsewhere.

In this case, I agree with the broad strokes of your opinion on the topic of the article you linked. Repost it with the original published title and it will stay. Add your own commentary to the post, not the headline.

Probably caught up in the measure I put in place to block AI bots a while back. I’ll look into it after Christmas etc.