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Yeah there was a bit of a struggle session/squabble and your admins blocked that comm because people were being mean to them or something?

this was the initial post: https://hexbear.net/post/2830702

The post was eventually removed (after generating a lot of discussion and getting the original user in question banned from lemmy.ml)

then there were some follow up posts more focused on two lemmy.ml admins that were perceived to have given the original reactionary mod way too much leniency and stood up for him. I think that perceived "targeting of admins" (criticizing them), is what prompted the defed of the_dunk_tank

https://hexbear.net/post/2844167

https://hexbear.net/post/2843745

Some modlog sleuthing will be necessary if you want to read all the replies back and forth, as our mods removed a lot of the comments made by davel and such for "defending pedophilia" after he got very upset that people were "casually labeling someone a pedophile"

I still don't 100% understand what part of this necessitated blocking the_dunk_tank specifically or if that will last. I hope not, but I also don't think users here were being unreasonable in being upset when they saw a guy with a long history of being shitty taking it beyond the pale, and some lemmy.ml admins rather than going "woah shit, guess that guy wasn't salvageable, sorry", came after us instead for being too aggressive about how we went after the guy and the admins that had seemingly enabled him. There was one user that may have had a personal grievance against one specific lemmy.ml admin, but even if that's the case I don't think that invalidates the rest of the genuine issues.