My post was removed as astroturfing. It might be an idea to try and understand meaning of concepts before blasting them around. You will find wikipedia, and many other reputable sources, helpful in this quest. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astroturfing
My question was a genuine one born out of deep frustration. The name of this community suggests it is for such questions, but what do I understand.
By the way, what’s wrong with you, mods?
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I think that community is for people who want answers to questions and your question really does not seem to fulfil that requirement.
It really is a genuine question. I want to understand some logic, anything at all, that compels Russia to behave the way they are.
1 to 30 odds OP’s next post is a screenshot of this one titled:
How is this sealioning?
I’d heard the term but hadn’t seen the strip. Quite satisfactory indeed.
I haven’t kept up with it, but I remember when that strip came out. So new ones might not be great but from around that era it was really good.
I think there’s a blog post on the bottom talking about how the term caught on.
Edit:
Started scrolling thru out of nostalgia.
https://wondermark.com/c/1056/
10 years ago they suggest a healthcare strike, where everyone in America just says fuck it and stops paying for insurance or medical care to bankrupt the entire industry to inspire policy change…
So it’s good to see society has come up with better alternatives
You weren’t asking ac actual question. Just posting anti Russian propaganda.
There is a ton of propaganda from either side since this conflict started. They probably just assumed you were another troll. Regardless it was a bad post so it deserved to be removed. They just used the wrong word.
Well, seeing as your post seemed to be much closer to an excuse to post a news article (and one that is particularly iffy sounding at that) rather than an open ended question, I can see why they would have assumed it’d be an attempt at astroterfing.
Quite how you concluded that my post was an excuse to post a link to BBC is beyond my admittedly limited comprehension. The logic that took you to that conclusion is intriguing, so please do explain.
You further imply that BBC is an iffy source. For me, that is a devastating perspective. Would you kindly help me find sources that are less iffy, please?
You will never get an answer from the mods of that instance.
You will never convince them to change anything.
No amount of public humiliation will make them adhere to their own policies.
I recommend creating accounts on smaller instances instead. I created my own instance for this reason.
They’re already on a smaller instance.
feddid.uk ? it has 3.5k users… and he’s posting to lemmy.world? ummmmmm
I mean yeah, that’s pretty small. Not even in the top 10, probably not even top 20. I see you’ve posted to communities on .world too so I’m kind of confused what the issue is.
I don’t have an issue?? LOL Ummmm… you’re the one countering my top level comment with “smaller instance” then backpedaling when I point out the stats… lol… figure it out friendo then let us know
Seems like the “us” here is just you, and I haven’t backpedaled at all. Feddit.uk isn’t .world even if it doesn’t fit your definition of small.
Lol?? You did backpedal, you literally reduced your qualifying metric within one response my guy, I’m sorry but your credibility is gone lmaoooo and furthermore you think instances are small if they’re not the same size as .world??? It’s the largest instance by over 100 thousand users LMAO every instance would be small by your (new :/) definition! Ha ha ha this has been fun
You will never get an answer from the mods of that instance.
That instance being .world
I recommend creating accounts on smaller instances instead.
Feddit.uk is smaller than .world, ergo they already fit your suggestion. Ok I’m done, seems like you are being willfully obtuse.
We’re usually somewhere around the top 20. I think we’re currently 21st by user numbers, 22nd by MAU. I’d usually class us as medium-sized, but as l.w is as large as everyone else combined you can really only class them as large.
Are you talking about instance admins or community mods?
I’m talking about the topic OP mentioned, scroll up ^^^
Yes. I was replying to your comment that mentions instance mods and asking whether you are talking about instance admins or community mods. Will I need to reiterate my question a third time for you to understand?
You should ask OP, not me lmaoooo I’m responding to him about his topic
Guess that’s a yes on my most recent question so thank you for the indirect answer and I’ll do my best to make it as clear as I can.
OP made a post about the actions of a community moderator (“mod”) for [email protected]. In your top-level comment on OP’s post within the AskLemmy community on the lemmy.world instance, you said the following:
You will never get an answer from the mods of that instance.
My reply to you was a question about whether you may have meant:
You will never get an answer from the mods of that community.
Or:
You will never get an answer from the administrators of that instance.
I’m asking whether you think OP’s question in the last line of the post we’re commenting on (i.e. “By the way, what’s wrong with you, mods?”) is directed at the moderators of the community who made the decision to remove the previous post or administrators of the instance who, so far, do not appear to be involved in the discussion at all. Please note that instance administrators and community moderators are different sets of people.
So wait are you asking me about my use of language or the actions of people? Your message seems really confused
You’ll find out if you bother to read any of what I wrote. I hope for your sake that you’re being deliberately obtuse here.
It’s pretty clear. You said “instance mods” but instances don’t have mods, they have admins. Communities have mods.
So did you mean the admins of the instance, or the mods of the community?
Dude, I think we’re wasting our time
Maybe so. Good news is I came to Lemmy tonight with plenty of time to waste.
I’m far beyond trying to convince anybody and way too old to care what people say. Occasionally, and seemingly today is one of those occasions, I quite like to call out idiots. It is a small pleasure, but a pleasure nonetheless.
I commend you for calling them out, even if they never learn their lesson. It’s important to call out abuse of power wherever it occurs. I’m sorry you had to get this dirt all over you, it’s not fair. But I’m glad you said something so we could see it. Carry on 💪
I can’t conceive of a way it would be. If anything it’s a bit of a leading question, as much as I agree with the outrage of what the Kremlin is doing to Ukraine. Still, I don’t see a community rule about that.
They have a rule against changing the article title in the post. That’s probably what the actual violation was.
No idea why they said it was astroturfing.
OP’s removed post was in [email protected], the same community as the post we’re commenting on now. AskLemmy does not have that rule.
