Comment on Blahaj? I'd be curious what led to this decision.
ChairmanMeow@programming.dev 3 weeks agoI don’t entirely agree with this.
banned when you go to what’s meant to be a safe space
He said he wasn’t in a thread on Blahaj. He was just on Lemmy.
misgender people despite being asked to stop
But if he considers dude gender neutral (which is a fairly common view), then he didn’t misgender anyone. Straight from Wikipedia:
In the early 1960s, dude became prominent in surfer culture as a synonym of guy or fella. The female equivalent was “dudette” or “dudess”, but these have both fallen into disuse and “dude” is now also used as a unisex term. This more general meaning of “dude” started creeping into the mainstream in the mid-1970s.
So it seems he was falsely accused of misgendering someone, and when he clarified how he uses slang, said use wasn’t respected.
Ofc I haven’t seen his actual comment and it’s entirely possible he was a total dick about it, but based on his explanation I feel it’s a bit of an overreaction to moderate him.
hitmyspot@aussie.zone 3 weeks ago
I interpreted differently. I assumed the thread was on blahaj but was not a meta thread about blahaj. However, you’re probably right.
If they were on another instance and just had a disagreement with a blahaj user about the term, then I’d say that’s over moderation to block them unless they were being abusive, or a dick about it.
I could also see how a mod could block him and accidentally block him from the instance if it was a year ago as mod tools weren’t great. Although I don’t use them.
However, as you say, depending on what the comments were, it could be the blahaj user was the one being the dick here.