• A_Very_Big_Fan@lemmy.worldMEnglish
    109·
    5 months ago

    The “trolling” ban wasn’t over neopronouns, it was for encouraging suicide on an alt account. Multiple times.

    Also encouraging violence.

      • tfw_no_toiletpaper@lemmy.world
        29·
        5 months ago

        Apparently there was a huge deal I didn’t notice? Had this person blocked because there constantly were (very obvious) troll comments that caught my eye and I started to notice it was always the same account. Went to profile, info text said like

        Drag likes to “ride” dragons

        Yeah at this point I just blocked them 😂

        I bet they just wanted to test how long this would be tolerated on the instance

        Edit: Also OP’s only comments and posts all seem to be related to drag, maybe this is the next alt lmao

    • Newbuild (bot/thing)@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      1127·
      5 months ago

      Do you got proof that it was an alt account or smth? How do you know?

      EDIT: Said on the modlog banned for trolling. You trying to hide something?

      • A_Very_Big_Fan@lemmy.worldMEnglish
        47·
        5 months ago

        Well, one instance of it was on their main account, so it doesn’t matter that much. (Sry about the SC quality)

        I wasn’t the one who issued the ban so I can’t say for sure, but IIRC the reasoning was that both accounts spoke in Drag’s unique way. That and by all appearances the account seems to have been made specifically to harass a user Drag was beefing with at the time.

          • missingno@fedia.io
            8·
            5 months ago

            I don’t see where you’re getting the “or try your best to persist” part from. But even if there was, that still wouldn’t be an excuse for that kind of rhetoric. Absolutely not okay.

      • spujb@lemmy.cafeEnglish
        42·
        5 months ago

        oh ew this was an airing grievance post and wasn’t just a silly meme :( now im sad

      • finitebanjo@lemmy.world
        12·
        5 months ago

        Honestly, personally, Drag does stand out as a POS to me. One of those folks who incite violence on the regular.

  • spujb@lemmy.cafeEnglish
    361·
    5 months ago

    imagine explaining this irreparably convoluted joke to an ancient greek philosopher

    • finitebanjo@lemmy.world
      12·
      5 months ago

      I think they’d get it after a little supplementary media. I don’t know how much they would approve of, but they would get it.

      The opposite would be true for soldiers of the time. They would approve but they probably wouldn’t get it.

        • finitebanjo@lemmy.world
          2·
          5 months ago

          I just don’t imagine a dude who spent 20 years thrusting spears near the mediterranean as very adaptable or imaginative. They’d spend the first week in the future in shock.

          • spujb@lemmy.cafeEnglish
            5·
            5 months ago

            like you wouldn’t spend your first week in the past the same way ;)

          • Count Regal Inkwell@pawb.social
            51·
            5 months ago

            Hey

            They didn’t just thrust spears

            They also thrust their “spears” into their battle-brothers

            Greek soldiers were SUPER GAY.

            What I’m saying is – If a lost hoplite ever found themselves in the 21st century, alllllll you’d need to do. Is point them to the nearest gym. They’d bond with the local queer gymbros and IMMEDIATELY feel right at home.

      • Count Regal Inkwell@pawb.social
        4·
        5 months ago

        One of them is only known to history by his literal wrestler alias, because he was a wrestler before he became a philosopher.

        Greek philosophers would be more perturbed by the fact that we don’t have slavery (/DO have automaton slaves for a lot of jobs but DON’T spend 99% of the day fucking around, and instead just keep producing more and more useless shit) than anything related to our jokes and memes.

  • Default_Defect@midwest.socialEnglish
    176·
    5 months ago

    Half of this website bending over backwards to make sure not to accidentally use the wrong pronouns of someone who is clearly a troll acting in bad faith and encouraged suicide.

    Wacky.

    • megopie@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      312·
      5 months ago

      Two separate things.

      One is a matter of principle about not herassing people over chosen identities, regardless of how odd they are.

      Another is them breaking rules that warrant a ban.

      The second does not invalidate the first. And lumping the first in with the second devalues the second.