I almost forgot about Vegantheoryclub.org I remember controversy about them with [email protected] where one of the mods of that community was also an admin on there or had ties to the admin there and was using it to ban anyone who criticized her or downvoted her. She was posting a ton of reactionary content (some of which was misinformation) and even tried to ban LW admins from the community. They eventually booted her and she tried to use alts to add herself back but ended up getting all of them booted and then used an alt to try and create more drama.
Yeah I strongly recommend people stay away from vegantheoryclub, they’re not a good instance. Their admin clearly has problems.
I think you’re mixing things up. Beaver was not among the !vegan@lemmy.world mods who fought against the .world admin Rooki’s interference in the community based on his personal beliefs and made-up rules. Beaver just briefly participated in some of the related discussions. Then long after the incident, she posted memes (which I don’t believe were reactionary if you mean right-wing), including some that mocked it. A new mod of the .world vegan community called her out for that and for allegedly banning people too eagerly and removed her as a mod. None of it involved the VTC instance. Slrpnk has a decent summary of the events. There are reasons to believe that Beaver is an old account of the OP (Sunshine).
I feel like there was involvement with VTC’s admin since that was before Lemmy had a Vote-view API for mods and they were helping get vote counts to ban people for downvoting but maybe that wasn’t happening and they weren’t involved. It’s not really valid these days anymore since every instance now has Vote-View enabled for moderators and Lemvotes allows anyone to see votes on any post or comment in Lemmy if they so choose.
The votes were available to anyone via certain mbin instances for example, without even needing to be signed up. Multiple mods of the vegan .world community were also mods of the vegan community of VTC, but I don’t see how that works against Hamid in particular, since I have no knowledge of his involvement. Beaver is likely still a .world mod via her suspected alt, but she was banned from VTC after her public spat with Hamid involving posts like the OP.
I almost forgot about Vegantheoryclub.org I remember controversy about them with [email protected] where one of the mods of that community was also an admin on there or had ties to the admin there and was using it to ban anyone who criticized her or downvoted her. She was posting a ton of reactionary content (some of which was misinformation) and even tried to ban LW admins from the community. They eventually booted her and she tried to use alts to add herself back but ended up getting all of them booted and then used an alt to try and create more drama.
Yeah I strongly recommend people stay away from vegantheoryclub, they’re not a good instance. Their admin clearly has problems.
I think you’re mixing things up. Beaver was not among the
!vegan@lemmy.worldmods who fought against the .world admin Rooki’s interference in the community based on his personal beliefs and made-up rules. Beaver just briefly participated in some of the related discussions. Then long after the incident, she posted memes (which I don’t believe were reactionary if you mean right-wing), including some that mocked it. A new mod of the .world vegan community called her out for that and for allegedly banning people too eagerly and removed her as a mod. None of it involved the VTC instance. Slrpnk has a decent summary of the events. There are reasons to believe that Beaver is an old account of the OP (Sunshine).I feel like there was involvement with VTC’s admin since that was before Lemmy had a Vote-view API for mods and they were helping get vote counts to ban people for downvoting but maybe that wasn’t happening and they weren’t involved. It’s not really valid these days anymore since every instance now has Vote-View enabled for moderators and Lemvotes allows anyone to see votes on any post or comment in Lemmy if they so choose.
The votes were available to anyone via certain mbin instances for example, without even needing to be signed up. Multiple mods of the vegan .world community were also mods of the vegan community of VTC, but I don’t see how that works against Hamid in particular, since I have no knowledge of his involvement. Beaver is likely still a .world mod via her suspected alt, but she was banned from VTC after her public spat with Hamid involving posts like the OP.