I came to a post on this community where a user said that a certain community was zionist. But their comment was really long and I wasn’t sure if it had been removed for that or something else. So I wanted to test it myself.
I went to that community and posted something that’s only offensive to zionists. My post was pro-jewish and anti-zionist, so there was no way to confuse it as meaning something else. I wanted to see what would happen. Either it would get removed for zionist reasons, get removed for other reasons, or stay up. That would answer my question. It got removed because the mod said they felt rage baited. That answered my question. I linked the post and the modlog here as evidence, to share my findings. Now everyone knows for sure whether that community is zionist.
What I wasn’t expecting is Ada’s response. She said in the modlogs she also felt the post was rage bait. I didn’t see that coming because I didn’t think Ada was a zionist. I thought she would be fine with seeing zionists get angry, because they get angry over the most mild things.
Is Ada supporting zionism?
YDI. Rage baiting is a form of trolling. The point is not necessarily that your opinion is infuriating the mod, but that it’s intended to cause intense discussions (typically between third parties) which often devolve into flamewars that are difficult to moderate therefore wasting the mods’ time and deteriorating the community cohesion. If your plan was to have a constructive discussion about the topic, there’s other ways to word it. But it’s clear when you don’t want to do that.
There is no “constructive discussion” about the validity of genocide. If zios are flame warring, they should be banned. They should be banned anyway. No platform for fascism.
I didn’t intend either of those. The third option is overwhelming evidence against the /europe mod leads to the feddit.org admins taking the community away from the mod for breaking the instance rules. I did my part. I thought lots of other users were going to as well. It’s part of being a responsible netizen. I wanted to be a good girl who does the right thing when zionists are banning other people.