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 😜
They didn’t get banned for questioning a policy. They got banned for making a new post “calling them out on their power hungry behaviour” once the discussion didn’t go their way.
Sure they’re being a bit combative by making these posts and that is questionable, but the original reason for removal was just “fake news” with no other explanation which is a hilariously unprofessional way to handle it.
Also, I have now been banned from that community by the mod in question for my reply above, which is incredible and just furthers my point that the mod needs to explain their actions more clearly rather than just banning people who question them, and they should definitely stop cyberstalking people talking about it on other instances.