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[a sign reads FEMINIST CONFERENCE next to a closed door, a blue character shrugs and says…]
I don’t care
[next to the same door, the sign now says RESTRICTED FEMINIST CONFERENCE WOMEN ONLY, there are now four blue characters desperately banging on the door, one is reduced to tears on the floor, they are shouting]
DISCRIMINATION
SO UNFAIR!!!
LET US IINN!!
MISANDRY
Pretty sure I didn’t stutter.
This is not the correct hill to die on.
If you confidently feel that I am unwelcome here, why not just ban me and be done with it?
You’ll also need to ban some of the other regulars who have been contributing content to this place for a long time now. You might want to have a serious inner discussion within your team and with the community about what a comic actually is. A good start would be looking at other successful/popular comic communities around the internet (start with r/comics on Reddit for example, there’s other places worth investigating too).
Getting rid of content that generates conversation will leave you with a dull or dead community soon enough. Alienating people who have been contributing content regularly for a while won’t help. That’s probably not your end goal.
Take some time to think about it, I’ll head out for now. Good night.
You come into this community with bad faith posts simply to start arguments, and are told you’re not welcome here. If you continue with said behavior, you will be banned. This has been your warning. Enjoy your evening!
I share comics in Lemmy’s main comics community.
They’re shared in good faith, with the goal of being relatable and thought provoking content. As all comics are, that’s precisely the reason why people make comics, especially satirical ones. I have better things to do with my life than creating chaos for the sake of chaos.
This comic has a good score, a good upvote % ratio, has generated some interesting conversations (and some chaos too, sure).
You told me I am unwelcome in response to a comment that has 89 upvotes vs 20 downvotes at the time of writing this. Are you sure that you understand the community you are representing / moderating? Seems like there’s an obvious rift here.
In the end it’s up to you, and if you want me gone, then I’ll be gone, I’m not here to argue with you. I’d just like to spare everyone (you included) the headache of whatever happens next if you start power tripping. It would lead to the usual lemmy community split, fragmenting the userbase even more, etc. which is not desirable for any of us.
You should really think this through, starting with learning what a comic is, and looking at what the community wants or doesn’t want to see here.
Prior work does not give you free license to come into this community and be an ass. You are bound by all of the same rules and expectations as all other posters. If that is not acceptable, you are free to go find (or create) a more suitable community to post in. Bigotry of any kind, for any reason, is unacceptable.
Buddy, your rules changed overnight in a way that makes no sense because - and I insist on that - you do not understand what a comic is. That’s a terrible look for a new mod in a comics community.
Look at this comment chain’s scores / votes: you are being ratio’d by your own community. Maybe it’s a sign you are doing things in a way that’s overstepping some boundaries that make no sense, no?
The choice of word “bigotry” in your comment is something else. Bigoted against who, sexists? Men’s right activists? You are a afraid of satirical content. It creates discourse that you don’t want to manage. Got it. This is your place now, you get to set your rules. But actually add a “no satirical comics” rule instead of freestyling it, because that’s not what “be civil” implies in regards to content creation.
Since this is the only comics community on Lemmy with an actual active population, I’ll keep posting my content in here until you ban me for it. And if you do end up banning me, I won’t be posting it to other comic communities, only to my personal community, there’s no other place suitable for comics and I don’t feel like creating a split/offshoot. That would be damaging for Lemmy and I don’t want to see the fediverse split some more over one man’s stubbornness.
Your mod team needs to have an actual conversation about this exchange though (and the scores / votes it’s getting), and needs to have a conversation with the comics community too about what you think a comic is and isn’t and what does or doesn’t belong here. Implying any form of satire with a bit of a provocative sting isn’t welcome here is a huge deal, and requires a clear delineation of what the line that should not be crossed precisely is.
You have no idea what you are doing, this is the type of rash decision that marks the start of the decline of a community, which would suck since this one is quite lively as of now. I’ll take the exclusion if you want, it wouldn’t annoy me as much as it would to see yet another Fediverse community become dull and die.
PS: Half of the issue is that you express yourself poorly. Another mod had to step in and clarify what your issue with me precisely was. You could have been direct from the start instead of trying to act tough. People can’t read your mind, work on your communications skills. And go read the much more constructive reply I gave them, wouldn’t hurt, you might realize we don’t stand at odds as much as you believe.
PPS: This comic is currently on top of lemmy.world’s front page, even though it’s two days old. Are you fully sure and certain that you are taking decisions that go with the flow of what the community likes / wants to see? Or is this maybe a personal vendetta because you dislike the way I was behaving in this community… back when there was no active mod team here and thus no other way to get bigots / sexists / racists to leave this place than to make them feel unwelcome? I get your message, there’s a mod team now, so I should leave conflicts to you instead of handling it myself. Acknowledged. Maybe you should have opened with that.