Want to wade into the sandy surf of the abyss? Have a sneer percolating in your system but not enough time/energy to make a whole post about it? Go forth and be mid: Welcome to the Stubsack, your first port of call for learning fresh Awful youāll near-instantly regret.
Any awful.systems sub may be subsneered in this subthread, techtakes or no.
If your sneer seems higher quality than you thought, feel free to cutānāpaste it into its own post ā thereās no quota for posting and the bar really isnāt that high.
The post Xitter web has spawned soo many āesotericā right wing freaks, but thereās no appropriate sneer-space for them. Iām talking redscare-ish, reality challenged āculture criticsā who write about everything but understand nothing. Iām talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. Theyāre inescapable at this point, yet I donāt see them mocked (as much as they should be)
Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldnāt be surgeons because they didnāt believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I canāt escape them, I would love to sneer at them.
(Credit and/or blame to David Gerard for starting this.)

Op banned??
BlueMonday has had a tendency to go off with a half-assed understanding of actual facts and details. Each individual instance wasnāt ban worthy, but collectively I can see why it merited a temp ban. (I hope/assume itās not a permanent ban, is there a way to see?)
the public modlog, linked from the instance sidebar:
Thanks!
So it wasnāt even their random hot takes, it was reporting someone? (My guess would be reporting froztbyteās criticism, which I agree have been valid if a bit harsh in tone)
froztbyteās criticism crossed the line by a bit for a couple of admins who weighed in, and theyāve been warned to ease up. reporting a post like that isnāt bannable; weāve got more context for a report like that than we do for some rando doing a drive-by report for a tone rule that doesnāt exist, for example.
blue misused the report system in a way that wasnāt accidental or incidental, and we felt the best course of action was a cooling off period. given that theyāre welcome back in less than 4 days, Iād prefer to leave it at that.
Thanks for the information. I wonāt speculate further.
Not permanently, by the looks of it.