If you’re browsing “Subscribed” sure. But don’t browse “all” just to shit on things you have no interest in. Block the community and move on 🤷‍♂️

Thanks for the additional info. I’m gonna set up test cases in the UI I work with and try to confirm (and handle it better if need be). A UI bug was my assumption as well.

Thanks. I’ll add that to my test cases for the UI I work with. I don’t think I’ve ever tried to block a community the test user was banned from, so I’m curious if it’s an API restriction or the way the UI handles it. Will prob also submit a bug once I figure out which.

Edit: That looks like the community options that have the “block community” button are all hidden when you’re banned rather than the “block” functionality being restricted. I’m almost positive now that it’s just a UI bug. Will still add it to my test cases, though.

Yep. Banning users who aren’t subscribed to a community and are just downvoting everything that comes up is pretty common and understandable.

The typical modlog entry I see for that is “block the community or curate your feed”, and I think that’s pretty justified. It’s like intentionally showing up somewhere you don’t want to be just to “booooo” everything there. Being asked to leave and not demoralize the people just trying to exist in their own space is perfectly fine, IMO.

Also, what’s up with not being able to block a community you’re banned from?

Wait, really? I’m gonna have to check on that. Curious if that’s an API limitation or a frontend bug. What frontend did you use? Lemmy-UI?

Your last submission was a little lot too “Thanos was right, and we should do that” but without a fictional framing device. If you can re-work it to be a little lot less dehumanizing to 50% of the world’s population, please feel free to resubmit.

But I will say that those people you’re calling parasites would probably be more “useful” to society if society wasn’t largely an orphan crushing machine and they had a chance to utilize their potential.

Again, if you can rework it so it’s not “Thanos was right”, feel free to resubmit. This post, however, is not an unpopular opinion and I’m going to have to remove it.

Fantastic use of X’s 😆 Well done.

(Not directing this at you, OP, just setting the tone for any replies)

Remember Rule 1: No politics. The post itself is fine since it’s about the meme. Please don’t turn the comments into political shouting, but otherwise carry on.

If that were to happen, it’d only be for tech companies, not people. lol.

It seems like the productive discussion has run its course, and OP seems to be finished with it. Locking post.

To be fair to OP, I didn’t even think of phrasing it that way when I was trying to parse it.

That’s a lot better put.

I’m pretty sure your heart is in the right place, but your argument is more than a little confusing.

The first paragraph clearly states that you believe sexual attraction is not a choice, and yet your argument is that “it’s not a choice” is counter-productive.

If I understand it correctly, you’re basically saying to re-frame the “it’s a choice” narrative into something that affects straight people who oppose LGBT+ rights because they believe it is a choice that can be made?

e.g. If you’re straight and then one day “choose” to be gay, but LGBT+ rights have been abolished, then the government has taken away your right to choose?

If I’m understanding correctly, all other points aside, it may be too confusing to have any good/meaningful impact.

I would highly encourage anyone who feels sympathetic to this comment to read through the comment history and modlog of the person who made it before voting.

Combative, promoting violence, and generally using the Palestinian crisis to universally bash anyone they disagree with about anything while also derailing unrelated conversations. But yeah, it’s the mods who are the problem. 🙄

Good truly unpopular opinion, and mostly good discussion on the points made. That said, I think pretty much all the points that were going to be made have been made. Locking thread.

OP, the wording of the post is very confusing. Would you mind perhaps editing the post to clarify your opinion?

Thanks!

I think the distributed nature of the Fediverse is a big part of it. Lot of moderation policies at play, on a lot of different instances and some allow some real jerks to flourish and spill out elsewhere. I have zero tolerance for any of that garbage and am very quick with my block/ban buttons, but those are only effective on my own instance or the few communities I moderate outside that.

OP, best I can suggest is to report them. Most of the communities I interact with are pretty responsive to those kinds of reports and similarly don’t tolerate it. Mods, unfortunately, can’t read every comment and often rely on reports to know when to look deeper/take action.

And don’t feel bad about blocking the jerks. There’s a lot of them, lol.

I’ve seen this site get spammed in the past, but it’s been a few months. Guess they’re at it again.

That whole site is an unholy mixture of religion, conspiracy, and Elon Musk. It’s bonkers.

Basically if you see tiblur [dot] com, you can pretty much just report it as spam.

Is it weird that I read your reply in Frasier’s voice?

There’s an amazing bakery near me that’s like that. People have just kind of adapted, and it seems to work well for the business. They start at like 4 in the morning to bake everything they’re going to sell for the day, open at 7, and are pretty much always sold out by 10:30 or 11.

If I recall, I think they do a lot of catering, so the part of the shop that’s open to the public is kind of an afterthought. I’m never able to get there when they have the good stuff, but it’s an amazing treat when someone from the office stops by early in the morning and brings a box of something.

Yeah, I got that from the post, and I appreciate it. Which is why I’ve chosen to leave it up. It’s certainly an unpopular opinion based on the types of comments I’ve seen elsewhere, it’s not calling out anything specifically, and the message is important.

If you want to edit it to be more generic, that’d be cool. Otherwise, I’m just gonna watch to make sure the discussions/comments don’t go off the rails. When the new mod team took over, we all agreed we should leave politics at the door since it’s everywhere and sometimes you just need a reprieve.

Not sure where the line is for that, exactly, but I’m willing to allow some generic, good-faith discussion once in a while. May need to chat with the other mods to see how they feel about it.