I'd rather that community be shutdown and locked then turned into a meme community antagonizing the group it's named for.
this post was submitted on 20 Feb 2025
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locked then turned into a meme community antagonizing the group it's named for.
I get what you're saying, but this specific group already does this to scale. Truth Social is an entire major SM company that, while not explicitly stated, serves to "own the libs*
Even on the Fediverse there are whole Lemmy/mastodon instances dedicated to "owning the libs", even this very community has allowed meme/mockery posts to "own the libs"
Why are we not allowed to have a comm that does the same as long as it's kept reasonable (i.e. no targeted attacks of a specific user)?
"Taking the high road" has utterly failed with this group as they have demonstrated time and time again from nationwide down to hyper localized communities, that they will take advantage of that.
Or, you could just block it and move on with life like an adult.
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as per this post, there is a need for moderation in the stated community (has no mod right now)
P.S. : i support @cm0002@lemmy.world for this task
.world c/conservative is unmodded now too! Post all the things they hate!
OPs post history makes it very clear he doesn't actually want to mod that community in good faith.
Obviously not. There is no such thing as a conservative that acts in good faith in the first place.
I spoke about this in another thread, but it seems like a very delicate balancing act to find the right moderator for that kind of community. To be a conservative is to be tolerant of fascists and Neo-Nazis to some degree. In the current political climate, it is inevitable that any right-leaning community will have elements of these abhorrent ideologies. I don't think fascists and Neo-Nazis should be tolerated to exist in any space. No community as a whole is made safer by their presence, quite the opposite. So any moderator of a conservative community either must not be a conservative themselves or be one of the seemingly minority of conservatives that utterly disavow nationalists and bigotry, but this would put them in a position of poorly representing the community they moderate.
It's a tricky situation. And I'm not sure if there's a solution that both makes sense and permits a conservative community to exist.
To be a conservative is to be tolerant of fascists and Neo-Nazis to some degree
That is unfortunatly the truth for a lot of conservative parties around the world these days, but I don't agree that one personally has to do that to be a conservative. So I really disagree with that sentiment.
However I do agree that it is a very tricky situation indeed.
I'm not so sure. I think there are conservatives who truly believe themselves to be intolerant of fascists and bigots but, first and foremost, they are not representative of conservatives as a whole and therefore may not be best suited to represent and moderate a community of conservatives, and secondly, I'm reminded of the German saying about Nazis at the table. If there is a table of ten people and a Nazi sits down with them and no one leaves, there are 11 Nazis at the table.
I'll admit that this is a fairly American-centric view of conservatives and while it may be as you say, similar in other parts of the world, I honestly don't know enough to agree with any certainty.
I have not posted any misinformation, I have pledged to clear up known misinformation spreader links such as Breitbart
I didn't say you did. But you spend the entire morning spamming the community with memes intended to troll the members, exploiting the fact that it was unmodded and breaking rule 6. That's not behaviour becoming of a mod anywhere and certainly not in a community which you ideologically oppose.
But hey, not my decision, just providing some background info.
I see your point, however, in my view it has been abandoned with the only serious posters posting mostly misinformation and is open to be remade in "a new image". In fact, it seems the only time "good" source links were posted (i.e. AP news) was after it went modless (for the most part)
i second this motion.
also, to @remon@ani.social
i see your position and i suggest you also moderate that community. Otherwise, just let others do it and react later if necessary.
i see your position and i suggest you also moderate that community
Oh, I really don't want to, sorry.