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This poster disagrees that it was guilty of Sealioning. That's amusing.
Dear reader, let's look at what Sealioning is.
In short, it's a form of trolling. Sealioning is defined specifically by the following characteristics:
Sealioning isn't an exact match for this poster's behaviour, but it's damn close. Little petty grammar and spelling nazi comments. Intruding into other people's DMs without permission. Constantly hiding behind the community rules. Using and abusing the fuck out of laws of civility and this community, while having zero intention to do anything but be disruptive, annoying, insulting, condescending, and otherwise just plain unpleasant, secure in the knowledge that we can't call it out for what it is because the Mods have handcuffed us with these silly 'be civil' rules.
The mods have actually tagged this poster with a three day timeout for being a troll. I don't think that gives me permission to carte blanc call this poster a troll, but I can at least point out every time I see it pushing its latest nonsense that the moderator team here has suspended its access for 3 days for trolling. We'll see if the mods let that stay up. Given the nonsense that the mods have let stay up for the person they put in time out for being a troll, I hope it will. Kind of like calling out a convicted thief as a thief, or a convicted fraudster as a fraudster. Just with a silly extra step because we wouldn't want to be uncivil to someone who is wanting to be uncivil to us.
The modlog is public: https://lemmy.world/modlog/1252
My posts do NOT come out every 18 minutes, 24 hours a day. That's 100 percent false. You can just look at the time stamps and see that's false. The time frames mentioned are averages, not actual posting intervals. It's not literal, friend.
And as you just mentioned, the mods banned me for 3 days. I've had comments removed when they thought I went too far, just as you have had. So no, I don't get any preferential treatment from them, nor have I ever asked. No one is "handcuffed" when it comes to speaking out against me.
@jordanlund@lemmy.world would you like to jump in and address his concerns regarding the modding activity of this community?
As I've stated before, we've discussed Monk's account between the admins and the mods, the consensus opinion is that they have shitty opinions, but having shitty opinions is not a TOS violation.
Curious, can a user be banned/moderated for a DM they send? They've messaged me before, in let's just say a ...different... tone than they use in comments. Dude even invented some bizarre story about me... It's something.
That would be outside the scope of moderation, but DMs have a report option that goes to the Admins of their instance and your instance.
Admins can and do ban people for that. As a mod, I've had to report more than a few DMs myself.