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Journalist says he finds it ‘surreal’ to have account on X suspended after writing critique of platform

www.irishtimes.com Journalist says he finds it ‘surreal’ to have account on X suspended after writing critique of platform

The author’s account had over 100,000 followers and was around 14 years old, he said

Journalist says he finds it ‘surreal’ to have account on X suspended after writing critique of platform::The author’s account had over 100,000 followers and was around 14 years old, he said

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Well, I remember it being absolutely normal to be banned after criticizing some forum on that forum. Or these normies thought that there being millions instead of dozens of users someplace means that they are somehow relieved from using common sense?
Meh, I'm really so disgusted with that part of humanity which, while building this pretense of their favorite social media being some "platforms" and the new future, would ridicule me and people similar to me. I really can't feel anything but relief seeing all this. I really hope they relied on those.
Just a bit of malice, nothing serious.
- The first time I was a mod on a forum (2001) I deleted a single post from, and temp banned a known troll harassing another user... I was removed as a mod so fast it made my head spin, and was talked to about it all...
  Turns out a small forum ran by a bunch of nerds (I mean that affectionately) in the early 2000's was pretty pro-free speech.
  Don't think just because -you- would ban someone for criticism that it's "normal," especially while unironically using the word "normies" in the next sentence.
  
  Turns out a small forum ran by a bunch of nerds (I mean that affectionately) in the early 2000’s was pretty pro-free speech.
  That's the only kind of forum to be that then.
  Don’t think just because -you- would ban someone for criticism that it’s “normal,” especially while unironically using the word “normies” in the next sentence.
  What are you blabbering about, I've never banned anyone at all except for obvious spammers.
  The first time I was a mod on a forum (2001) I deleted a single post from, and temp banned a known troll harassing another user… I was removed as a mod so fast it made my head spin, and was talked to about it all…
  "Removed as a mod" is something weird really. Apparently you mean that you were a single topic mod or something like that.
  At least I don't remember that being a common thing then. Someone would start a forum, attract first friends, then other users, and then some of the friends would become mods.
  This is a cultural argument, though, I'm talking about Russian-speaking web, maybe English-speaking parts were nicer, but I'm not sure I'd believe that - I see all the same around, on Reddit and here (it's really much better here, though) and everywhere.
  
  blabbering
  Okay, I could and should have just stopped there, bhuuuut...
  This is a cultural argument, though, I'm talking about Russian-speaking web
  That's pretty telling, regarding the stance you're taking... That being said; everyone else is talking about a site owned and run in the US.
  
  Okay, I could and should have just stopped there, bhuuuut…
  You are exactly blabbering when you say things outta your ass about what others do which you can't possibly know. So you should have just stopped earlier.
  That being said; everyone else is talking about a site owned and run in the US.
  How ignorant one should be to think that.
  That’s pretty telling, regarding the stance you’re taking…
  FFS, you are behaving in the exact way I described, and you are not even a mod now.
  I think you were not very different from what I describe back then, just not being self-conscious now.
  
  I don't understand anything you just said
  
  Too bad.

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