Mod over at !startrek@startrek.website didn’t like the opinion presented in an article I shared about the recent cancellation of Star Trek: Prodigy and removed my post to an star trek opinion article. I asked the @ValueSubtracted@startrek.website claimed they removed the opinion piece because they didn’t want to give the website clicks.
I wrote a post calling them out on this power hungry practice and tried to involve the community as a whole. As the post gained traction, i was promptly banned for starting “drama”
So now, i guess it’s at least mildly infuriating to say the least that a growing community banned someone contributing real discussion worthy content for potentially political reasons and as a result may end up fracturing one of the few kinda centralized communities across the Lemmy verse. I ain’t even too mad tho, because that’s what makes federation great easy to leave power hungry mods. Too bad for them this ain’t reddit 😜
I made a post questioning their behavior and attempted to spur community discussion on what was happening and how we should be defining rules/community standards. That post was removed by the same mod after the comments weren’t universally against me as others started asking why and for better rule clarification. No where in any of my posts did I strat off topic or violate any rules or community standards.
Idk if that isn’t power hungry mod behavior, idk what is.
Btw, the rules haven’t changed one bit. If anything, I’d say the mod is violating their own rule about fostering a welcoming community (not like there’s a damn thing I could do)
EDIT: Also, ysk the person you are replying to was also banned from !startrek@startrek.website by the same mod @ValueSubtracted@startrek.website for literally posting the comment you are replying to on a completely separate instance.