Vegans being banned and comments being deleted from [email protected] for being fake vegans.

From my perspective, the comments were in no way insulting and just part of completely normal interaction. If this decision reflects the general opinion of the mod team, then from my perspective, the biggest vegan community on Lemmy wants to be an elitist cycle of hardcore vegans only, not allowing any slightly different opinion. Which would be very unfortunate.

PS: In contrast to the name of this community, I don’t want to insult anyone here being a ‘bastard’. I just want to post this somewhere on neutral ground. I would really appreciate an open discussion without bashing anyone.

PPS: Some instances or clients seem to compress the screenshots in a way they’re unreadable. Find the full resolution here: https://imgur.com/a/8XdexTm

Linking the affected users and mods: @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected]

  • Tattorack@lemmy.world
    124·
    6 days ago

    Militant vegans always seemed cult-like to me, and nothing reinforced that idea more than seeing posts from the vegan group on here.

    Didn’t take long for me to block that community.

  • Draconic NEO@lemmy.dbzer0.com
    101·
    6 days ago

    PTB for sure, they’re removing comments not 100% in support of them which is iffy, but now they are trying to decide that people aren’t real vegans because they don’t agree with the mods, WTF?!?

    Also is it just me or does this mod seem like they might be an Alt of Beaver (a previous mod of the Vegan community who was removed from the community for power-tripping) was known for making alts and trying to sneak herself back in as mod a few times with her alts, as well as fostering ill will towards the mod who removed her using her alt accounts. She ultimately deleted her accounts after being called out for the behavior and when these tactics weren’t working.

    @[email protected] Maybe you might want to look into this, it’s very possible the person who was power-tripping before was somehow able to get back in as a mod on an alt account without you or other mods knowing it was them.

  • cows_are_underrated@feddit.org
    257·
    7 days ago

    The vegan Community is actually quite shit. They don’t hesitate to delete your comment just because you aren’t a vegan, even if you agree with them in certain points.

  • Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee
    92·
    6 days ago

    Lemmy vegans are a never ending source of entertainment, aren’t they?

    Also, I had a quick look through the community, and it’s mostly one person posting, with a big chunk of their posts attracting zero comments.

    Very strange.

    • Warl0k3@lemmy.world
      7·
      6 days ago

      It used to be pretty active, but everyone bailed right around when the mods started with the purity tests and thumbscrews. Like most subcultures viewed as ‘cringe’, the reputation comes from one or two users being fucking weirdos and then everyone reposting their insanity for meme points.

          • db0@lemmy.dbzer0.comM
            75·
            6 days ago

            I removed your comment because it’s out of topic and it’s bringing up a completely other drama to spike controversy. I.e. you’re trolling.

            • Zagorath@aussie.zoneEnglish
              1·
              6 days ago

              While we’re on the topic of modding in this thread, GrammarPolice got banned, but it doesn’t look like the comment that they were banned for has been removed. Is this intentional?

              • db0@lemmy.dbzer0.comM
                51·
                6 days ago

                If there’s a good-faith counter-aguments already on that thread and might leave the originating comment up so that their effort is not lost.

                • Zagorath@aussie.zoneEnglish
                  4·
                  6 days ago

                  I was talking specifically about the giant ascii art with a profane curse as the only text.

                  But I just had a look and it seems like it was removed, but that the removal hasn’t federated to my instance properly. Dammit, I thought the recent update had fixed LW’s federation problems.

            • xor@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
              34·
              6 days ago

              you’re insane… that was completely on topic and i wasn’t “trolling”, i was discussing
              and you’re completely power tripping to remove that.

              • db0@lemmy.dbzer0.comM
                54·
                6 days ago

                You were off-topic and trolling. You were not discussing, you were bellyaching and bringing up another drama-laden topic that has been discussed to death and had multiple threads about it locked in this very comm. Now stop whinging and touch grass ffs. I just removed one of your comments. didn’t even ban you.

                • xor@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
                  42·
                  6 days ago

                  bellyaching

                  i’m talking about the overarching motivation of concern trolling vs simple power tripping, because of the vegan “modding”. my “belly” is not aching and that original discussion didn’t even involve me.
                  i’m not trolling, i think the dragonfucker is a perfect example of concern trolling… and i suspect a similar motivation to that is what motivated the vegan mods…. it’s a entirely topical, and you’re power tripping to just unilaterally remove that with no discussion.

                  it’s called “comparing”, and something people often do when talking about a topic

  • finitebanjo@lemmy.world
    145·
    7 days ago

    I can’t read that but yeah the Vegan community here has a long history of being total assholes.

  • mojofrododojo@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5·
    6 days ago

    unrelated to the drama:

    who are these ‘screenshots’ for? because they’re so small and compressed I cannot read the text… are these automated or?

  • Zement@feddit.nl
    65·
    6 days ago

    Almost all vegans are “fake”. Start with the bees used to pollinate the food. End with a wasp dying in a fig…

    It’s all definition in the end. I think that’s random and the mod is random. But idk, let them echo chamber a little.

    • jet@hackertalks.comEnglish
      41·
      5 days ago

      Yeah. The plant lifecycle depends on animals, and the animal life cycle depends on plants. You can’t divorce one from the other and have a sustainable ecosystem.

  • millie@beehaw.orgEnglish
    44·
    6 days ago

    The truly unreasonable part of this is how horrible your screencaps are. How do you even get screencaps to be that low res? Did you scale them way down?

    • rbn@sopuli.xyzOP
      5·
      6 days ago

      Is that a client-specific thing? On my end they’re sharp and readable (Boost for Lemmy), even in preview mode (before clicking on HD for full resolution), I can read everything.

      https://imgur.com/a/8XdexTm