I just got permanently banned from a community for making a single harmless remark on a single post that was right there in the main feed. It’s not a community I’m super active in so it’s not like devastating, but it is annoying
If your precious little community is full of so many delicate sensitive people who can’t even be reminded that another viewpoint even exists, then you should really protect them by defederating and having everyone join your private website
The mod has literally removed like 75% of the comments and banned everyone lol
I don’t know about anyone else, but I don’t have time to read every rule for every community that pops up when I’m in view all
Upvoted as unpopular. I don’t know if I agree with this or not (on general grounds), it’s extremely complicated.
In theory it’s completely OK to have a community for a restricted but non-private demographic, and often it’s how you avoid a crowd of “excuuuuse me, I’m going to debate the same stale points over and over, and I expect you to waste your time with me”.
In practice we know that there’s a high chance that the community evolves into an echo chamber, of the dumbest type - that claps to convenient idiocy, but ridicules inconvenient truth.
If it’s sensible to have a community like this, as well as the outcome of having it like this, depends mostly on the sanity of whoever is in charge of the comm.
[Edited for subtle rewording. No change on discourse.]