Ouch, yeah, that clinches it.

PTB.

That was an interpersonal misunderstanding that got twisted into ban. Not just a removal, and not even a temp ban.

That’s just someone swinging mod dick because they can.

I wanna give the benefit of the doubt, but the way the conversation went, they even said It was a misunderstanding, then changed their mind.

Even if you were pulling shit elsewhere, I can’t see evidence of it in your user history, so it makes the claim of you baiting habitually dubious. I kinda doubt you went amd scrubbed your user history, soooo, PTB, yeah.

Thanks for putting in the extra effort for a solid evaluation here. Not everyone does. It isn’t a requirement, but it really does make it easier to get a good feel of events when it’s possible

Didn’t say it was your fault, I’m just saying it makes it difficult.

With no screen shots of the removed comments, this comes down to ifs.

if the mod’s reason for the ban in the mod log is accurate, it’s YDI.

If your take of things is accurate, it’s at least clueless mod, probably PTB.

Rule 5 of that community requires some degree of personal judgement on exactly what is and isn’t baiting, so it isn’t necessarily power tripping to be wrong in that judgment. So, they could have been wrong in their determination without it being them just swinging mod dick, and it looks like that’s what happened here, based purely on the rest of the thread that’s visible.

Not knowing the exact wording used in your comments makes it hard to make a clear estimation though, so that’s all I got.

Really? You’re running around repeating known dog whistles, and now you want to argue that pointing out dog whistles are propaganda?

Nah, at this point, you’ve down exactly who you are

Look, just because you haven’t bothered to learn what a dog whistle is in this context doesn’t mean it isn’t the case

No, I said your comment should be removed because it’s a common antisemitic dog whistle

The point is that the more walls of text there are, the less the focus is on the point of the C/.

Every person that starts pounding their pulpit here makes it harder to wade through the junk and get to discussion about mod actions. There’s dozens of places to delve into the hot button topics, but there’s really only two that function as a practical meeting ground for ongoing discussions about moderation and how it shapes lemmy. When there’s a dozen off topic rambles about the secondary issue, it makes the community useless for its primary one.

And, for whatever fucking reason, instead of at least making the comments their own top level one, people seem to insist on clogging up my inbox with shit I’m not going to read because I already said I wasn’t interacting with it here. So it’s also annoying as fuck on a personal level. I genuinely wonder what the fuck people are thinking when they pull this shit. Someone says “I’m not going to engage in that subject”, but they’re going to pound the fuck out of that subject anyway. After a certain point, it’s just rude.

Stay the fuck on topic. It’s that easy.

Oh, talking about politics on lemmy is fine.

Pounding the political pulpit beyond the bare minimum necessary on this community is where it goes wrong.

And yes, actually, moderators absolutely get to decide what is and isn’t appropriate content for their community. That’s what a moderator is, the person or persons that curate a community.

And, yet a-fucking-gain, as I’ve already said, I’m not getting into debate about the subject itself here. I’m also not wasting my time with some random YouTube video as a proxy to that

Do people not read?

I said I wasn’t being into the debate here, and only went into it far enough to explain what OP asked for.

Well, as I said, I’m not debating any of that here. If you want to post about it somewhere that is appropriate for that conversation, ping me, and we’ll talk about it.

Sure, but that’s different than the dog whistle that is the specific line in question here.

I know, not everyone has the leisure to keep track of all of those. There’s just so damn many of them nowadays. And they’ve spread beyond the people that started using them into the general populace, which means they’ve been successful in one part of their original intent.

But, the arguments that Israel is a rogue state would be out of scope here, even though I agree with that.

Edit: linking in the brand new study involving dog whistles https://phys.org/news/2025-04-subreddits-highlights-hidden-ways-speech.html

I’m not talking out my ass

Sure.

The only people that regularly say that Israel doesn’t have a right to exist are stirring shit, it isn’t a good faith argument. It never, ever, leads to a good conversation where everyone stays chill and on topic.

There’s the implication that jews have no right to a homeland of some kind, which is probably why they attributed it to racism (antisemitism), but it isn’t necessarily about that. It could be, I don’t know your stance in that regard, but it’s definitely anti Israeli, which is a fairly pernicious loophole, imo.

If you’re saying that no nation has a right to exist, fine, cool, maybe saying that would have been a better choice. But you can’t pretend you don’t know that that rhetoric is also slung around by antisemites.

Now, I gotta add my usual warning here. This community isn’t the place to debate the issue itself. I’m not going to go any further than what’s needed to explain my opinion regarding PTB or not. There’s a solid community for continuing to debate topics that get locked, and others for political debates in general, if that’s your bag.

Edit: dog whistles and how they spread is not a new idea. I didn’t come up with it. And, busy today This was released.

Anyone thinking that dog whistles shouldn’t be removed by mods is blind. It’s a major problem on the internet. It doesn’t matter who or what the dog whistle targets, it’s the fact that it is a tool of bigotry that spreads like a disease, even through places and people that aren’t bigots. That’s the problem with coded language. It’s viral and pernicious.

The fact that anyone even saw the need to try and study it should be a clear indicator that when a mod, or a user scrolling by, sees a dog whistle in the wild like this, it can’t just be shrugged off as unimportant.

Clueless mod.

While the comment definitely needed removal, that’s not a form of racism.

https://phys.org/news/2025-04-subreddits-highlights-hidden-ways-speech.html

True, true

Don’t be disingenuous.

Horse shit.

Reading vs TV was a tired debate in the eighties. YouTube is no different than tv. Hell, in some ways, because it isn’t all controlled by oligarchs entirely, I would argue that it’s easier to find good things on YouTube than it ever was on broadcast or cable tv.

Also, ablist much? How about the blind and dyslexic? Are they fucked just because you don’t like that format?

Yeah, fuck YouTube as a platform, and fuck Google/alphabet, but don’t pretend to be the arbiter of entertainment.

So, sundar pinchai can be added to the list of CEOs that suck?

Because a lot of the time, it’s weird that when the company does nasty shit, nobody names him as the head asshole in charge the way that other companies and ceos get handled.

The dude has been in the driver’s seat for pretty much every major deterioration of Google/alphabet for years.

No worries :)

You need to check the posting guidelines. This post is empty of anything that users can do anything with

Dammit. Not fair at all, now I gotta unzip and do it again.

I know I’m getting banned from this preschool this time