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- Comment on Are users who openly parrot literal Nazi talking points allowed here? 15 hours ago:
I get every report about every community on the instance, even if I’m not listed on the Community. They come as notifications to my phone. It’s pretty rare for any report to take longer than an hour or so to be looked at.
- Comment on Are users who openly parrot literal Nazi talking points allowed here? 19 hours ago:
Lebensraum is a relatively infamous policy, and one which neo-Nazis like the NSN explicitly invoke.
Sorry. While I readily acknowledge that I don’t hang out in those circles, nor really scrutinise their rhetoric, I have honestly never heard that phrase before. In English or German. This does paint the comment in a brighter light, and I probably would have been more inclined to remove it had I been familiar with the term.
- Comment on Are users who openly parrot literal Nazi talking points allowed here? 22 hours ago:
We’re missing a bit of information here. I got your report, went to the thread to get the context.
Firstly, I saw that you had literally screen-capped the comment in question and included it in a new reply. So, removing the comment would have achieved nothing - it would have still been there.
Secondly, the comment was Zionistic in nature, which while especially unpopular in nature is not against instance rules.
Thirdly, I wasn’t aware that the comment in question was similar to something Nazis said. I don’t even know if the user who made the comment knew that. So, leaving it there and letting downvotes do their thing allowed for education as well.
Lastly, the comment was in the Australian Politics community - which is intentionally the lightest-touch moderated community because there’s a difference between political discussion where parties disagree quite vehemently and an outright echo-chamber. If you delete all the users from your politics community that you don’t agree with, what is the point of the community?To answer your question: No, we don’t allow Nazis here. It is literally one of the questions we ask on the application screen. “Nazi talking points” is not on its own a good metric of what is acceptable today. We basically have a whole community in support of Reichsnaturschutzgesetz. I don’t especially take issue with Tierschutz, either. One of the reasons the Third Reich gained actual popular support was some of their early policies were in fact in the best interest of the German people. There is still a Kindergeld today, though giving full credit to the Nazis to that one wouldn’t really be genuine. It is fair to say they supported this policy. So I guess our stance on “literal Nazi talking points” will boil down to other factors and get taken on a case-by-case basis.
Finally: If there’s a user you genuinely don’t wish to see around here any longer, you can hit the little down arrow on any of their comments and block them.
- Comment on What's causing the Greek yoghurt shortage in Australian supermarkets? 1 day ago:
We’re usually pretty immune to these sorts of shortages, because WA grows so much of its foods locally.
I noticed Aldi had no yoghurt for a bit, but there has been plenty of local supplier stocks.
- Comment on 40% of teenage boys believe women lie about domestic and sexual violence: new research 3 days ago:
So far as I know, nothing (legally). She wasn’t on trial. Something may have happened to her later, but I don’t think so. I think I’d have heard if it had.
Of course: everyone who knew her knew about the whole case and its outcome. It would be an inaccurate statement to say she faced no consequences at all. Everyone - male and female alike, was furious with her. And I expect the story follows her around 20 years later whenever anyone Google’s her.
- Comment on 40% of teenage boys believe women lie about domestic and sexual violence: new research 3 days ago:
The full paper would give better context of that statement. It’s quite accessible and worth reading. The thing that is consistent across all studies, nations and decades is that false accusations are rare.
It turns out this is actually a fairly difficult topic to accurately measure if for no other reason that a lot of cases (Particularly earlier ones) boil down to ‘he said, she said’. Then there is the matter that lots of sexual assault cases go unreported - or are dropped for assorted reasons. Unreported assaults are a huge factor among certain cultural groups.
- Comment on 40% of teenage boys believe women lie about domestic and sexual violence: new research 4 days ago:
Holy engagement bait, Batman! What a terrible headline.
Yes, it is a fact that women lie about domestic and sexual violence. I’ve seen first-hand a family seriously impacted by a false accusation. The son was detained in prison for a year, the parents took out a mortgage on their home to defend the case and finally the girl admitted in court that she fabricated the whole thing. The son was acquitted. These cases happen. Here’s a fairly broad paper on the matter discussing several deeper studies spanning several countries including Australia, Canada and the UK.
Among the seven studies that attempted some degree of scrutiny of police classifications and/or applied a definition of false reporting at least similar to that of the IACP, the rate of false reporting, given the many sources of potential variation in findings, is relatively consistent:
- 2.1% (Heenan & Murray, 2006)
- 2.5% (Kelly et al., 2005)
- 3.0% (McCahill et al., 1979)
- 5.9% (the present study)
- 6.8% (Lonsway & Archambault, 2008)
- 8.3% (Grace et al., 1992)
- 10.3% (Clark & Lewis, 1977)
- 10.9% (Harris & Grace, 1999)
With that out of the way, let’s move on to the elephant in the room:
IN OVER 90% OF CASES, THE RAPES WERE CREDIBLE! FALSE ACCUSATIONS ARE THE EXCEPTION!!
- Comment on Are you on track to retire comfortably? Australia's new super benchmark released 1 week ago:
No, but I’m closer than I expected to be (within $20k for my age bracket). I can probably make that much up in my remaining work years.
My wife’s super on the other hand is going to suck. She took about a decade off to be a stay at home mother when the kids were little and is going to put her well behind. The system doesn’t treat parents who do this well. Let’s face it: 90% of the time, it’s women who are career hobbled by parenthood and super pauses.
- Comment on Three Australian millionaires say the nation’s super-rich should face higher taxes 3 weeks ago:
$500 million purely in sales of software he wrote alone? That would be a feat for sure.
Initially, it was him and his wife, yes. Though they now have a decent sized company with a few hundred employees. I didn’t realise his venture had gotten so big until this thread and I googled him today. Before you get all angry that he’s “profiting off those people’s work”, ask whether those people are better off for working for him or if he should keep all the work and wealth to himself.
The part that’s wrong isn’t doing well and making money, it’s advocating against taxing corporations way more than we are, lobbying for loopholes, and engaging in rent seeking behaviour. Which is extremely, extremely common. Having some kind of cap on how much wealth you can amass seems sensible to me.
I haven’t heard of him doing any of those things. Of course I moved to the other side of the country and no longer move in the same circles as he does. He still has a reputation in IT circles for being a chill bloke, though.
- Comment on Three Australian millionaires say the nation’s super-rich should face higher taxes 3 weeks ago:
A former work colleague of mine might. He’s well over half-way there at least and still gaining.
He quit his job and wrote some software that is used all over the world. If you make a thing and enough people buy it, you get rich. In his case, very rich. He didn’t inherit his wealth. He didn’t start out already a millionaire. His wealth is not coming from being a parasite on society. He isn’t taking resources or hoarding land. He’ll be the first to tell you he is monumentally lucky, but I also can’t see anything he’s doing that’s wrong.
- Comment on Three Australian millionaires say the nation’s super-rich should face higher taxes 3 weeks ago:
That was called the “Mining tax” and it’s mere proposal killed the Kevin07 movement before Mr Rudd finished his first term. All for the measly cost of a ~$20 Million smear campaign blitz. Bargain!
- Comment on Not delivering any Aukus nuclear submarines to Australia explored as option in US congressional report 4 weeks ago:
Frankly, because Australia has things that the USA does not have and really needs. Australia is a stable and reliable political friend in a region of the globe that is close enough to the antipode of mainland USA. Our proximity and unused land affords our US allies with space and privacy to operate with relative comfort. Their bases in Australia also have much shorter logistic chains to operate compared with other remote locales like islands as well.
The USA would be impacted militarily if they lost Australia as an ally. Not irrevocably, they’d get by. But it would cost them a lot more than the simple civility and respect it takes to maintain their relationship with Australia.
Neither nations really needs the other. Our partnership has been convenient for both of us, and it really would be a shame for both nations if that partnership were to lapse.
- Comment on Parents are paying $2500 to falsify vaccine records. It’s endangering babies like Riley 5 weeks ago:
I’m struggling to believe there’s such a thing as an “anti-vax doctor”. That’s a classic oxymoron.
- Comment on I'm trying to identity a dinosaur theme park/attraction on the Gold Coast in the 80s 5 weeks ago:
I grew up on the Gold Coast in the 80s. I have no memory of such a place, sorry.
I’ll grant that we were poor and not exactly visiting the theme parks every week, but I’m fairly certain I got to them all at least once.
- Comment on no pride in genocide 1 month ago:
His mission was to observe the transit of Venus. The expedition was scientific in nature first and foremost.
You’re speaking of the secret instructions issued to him by the Admiralty to locate the fabled southern continent and hopefully claim it for England. Tasman by this stage had found NZ and I think Van Diemans Land. Yes he found the east coast of Australia and “claimed” it for England. It was all in vain though, the distances were way too far for anything to come of it. To Cook at the time, it was a side trip.
There were two parliamentary inquiries submitted to the British parliament in 1779 and 1785 recommending colonisation of New Holland, but even then: well after Cook’s death, such an expedition was seen as too expensive.
Then the English learned that the French were preparing to colonise and it was suddenly a British priority to get to Australia.
I don’t see how anything to do with the colonisation had anything to do with Captain Cook. You could swap Cook out for any other ship’s captain who was taking the scientists to see Venus and the rest of the expedition plays out much the same. Cook didn’t colonise Australia. He encountered the Guugu Yimithirr people in Northern Queensland and tried to treat with the peacefully - mostly succeeding. He certainly didn’t set about killing them all.
Arthur Philip should be the person people direct their ire at. But he doesn’t have a statue in Melbourne. King George III would be another candidate that made sense. Only George III also doesn’t have a statue in Melbourne.
- Comment on no pride in genocide 1 month ago:
Captain Cook had nothing to do with the colony. He died in 1779 - years before the settlers arrived. While agreeing with the sentiment that the arrival of Europeans is not cause for celebration, Cook had always been a dumb target for protesting Jan 26.
- Comment on Melbourne goes from among the most to least expensive capital cities 1 month ago:
Southbank had residential high-rise buildings that were at least 60% empty ten years ago - and that’s being generous. It seemed like they were nearly empty. From the outside at 8 pm, there were barely any lights on to indicate the presence of people in there.
They were owned by people overseas and kept in pristine condition to maintain a higher value. Is that still going on?
- Comment on My petty gripe: a large flat white is an oxymoron – a bastardisation of the drink Australia gave the world 1 month ago:
Insert “That’s bait” meme here.
- Comment on Exclusive: pro-Israel campaign seeks removal of Palestinian DJ from WOMADelaide 1 month ago:
It’ll be interesting to see what comes of this. Whoever sent this has clearly never been to a WOMAD festival, because that crowd is not likely to appreciate someone trying to influence the lineup.
I can’t think of anything the better the writers of this letter could have done to Streisand Effect that crowd into seeking out some DJ that might otherwise have been one act among several.
- Comment on Happy Public Domain Day 2026 - the first time since 2005 that authors and artists have entered the public domain in Australia 2 months ago:
I somehow missed this and thought that Lord of the Rings was coming out of copyright about now. It seems not.
- Comment on Long Before Bondi Massacre, Australian Jews Lived With a Sense of Peril 2 months ago:
New York has a huge Jewish population. This is totally geared toward selling papers to them.
- Comment on NSW premier calls for royal commission, pledges to ban 'globalise the intifada' chant 2 months ago:
Hrm, yours is a tricky one because I had read it and moved past it. I recognised you came from a place of hyperbole and didn’t think much of it. I didn’t remove it.
But looking at the comment again after it was removed, it does pretty much break all three of the rules I posted. So I’ll not override the mod and restore it.
It’s not that criticising actions of religious people is the issue, it’s grouping them all members of a religion into your criticism that is the problem.
‘Those two guys are bad’ is fine. ‘115,000 Aussies are terrible people because those two guys are bad’ is not fine.
- Comment on As of December 10th, You need to be sixteen to use Aussie.Zone 2 months ago:
Noooo!
I used my icq all the time! In 1997. - Comment on As of December 10th, You need to be sixteen to use Aussie.Zone 2 months ago:
This is a great idea, but keep in mind I’m likely to test it.
- Comment on Proposal to allow use of Australian copyrighted material to train AI abandoned after backlash 2 months ago:
We see you trying to manipulate the vote.
- Comment on Proposal to allow use of Australian copyrighted material to train AI abandoned after backlash 2 months ago:
- Comment on NSW premier calls for royal commission, pledges to ban 'globalise the intifada' chant 2 months ago:
Excuse me, that’s a load of horse shit. The modlog is right there at the bottom of the page. From this discussion, it’ll default to filtering mod actions for /c/Australia.
Point me to any comment you think should be restored and I’ll re-evaluate. But don’t sit there and pretend we censor you from behind secret doors like this is Reddit. I see stuff I disagree with on the regular, but I very rarely step in. I let the community votes do that.
The main rules of the site are and have always been:
Golden rule - don’t be a dick. If you wouldn’t say it in front of your grandmother, don’t post it.
No bigotry - including racism, sexism, ableism, homophobia, transphobia, or xenophobia.
Be respectful. Everyone should feel welcome here.In case this isn’t clear:
Criticism of a government’s actions (Ours, USA, Israel etc) is fine. Start bashing Muslims because of the actions of two jerks or start lumping all Jewish people in with the actions of the Israeli government, and we’ll step in. If/when we do though: it’s visible. You can see what was removed and what justification we used when we did it. Whatever impression left you with the attitude that we censor users is mistaken. - Comment on Christmas Present Inspiration Thread 2 months ago:
One sister wants cash towards a new motorcycle helmet. So yeah, she’s sorted. 😀
Another sister is all about the thoughtful gesture. It makes her super hard to buy for. She has loads more time than I do.
- Comment on As of December 10th, You need to be sixteen to use Aussie.Zone 2 months ago:
Go to your messages and then “All”.
- Comment on Christmas Present Inspiration Thread 2 months ago:
Hershey’s kisses would be a perfect accompaniment to this specific mug.
