I don’t feel I behaved as properly as I maybe should have, but I was within the rules.
Nah. t's clear that you were not being civil in that conversation: for example
Those things might not be overtly aggressive, but they rub people off the wrong way; that is not civil behaviour IMO.
YDI: you deserved it. YDM: you deserved more.
Given the whole content of the thread I feel like 5d for each would be fair - it's long enough to not make it look like a slap on the wrist, but short enough to acknowledge "once the ban is over you're welcome here, but please behave better".
Perhaps leading by example would have prevented some of the escalation though. He might want to give himself a ban for being uncivil.
100% agree on that. It's the mod's responsibility to set up the civility standards in a community, and Wren themself set the bar really low. You need to be way more cool-headed in a comm you mod than one you don't.
Ignorant does not mean stupid or asshole.
What matters here is that people will interpret "ignorant" as an insult, and you have other ways to convey the same (e.g. "uninformed", "clueless", etc.)
Note: I actually agree with your argumentation in the thread. The issue is tone. It's because of that tone I think you deserved it.
As a user you were also behaving poorly there; in fact your interaction with the OP sounds like two children "waaaaah, I asked you first!!11one" at each other. I'm not also blind to the blatant straw man you set up right off the bat, and that Nay was actually spot on when they asked "What -is- communism to you?". I might agree with the way you handled Nay as a mod, but frankly? If I saw both in one of my comms I'd be giving both the same short end of the stick.
Based on the information provided ITT and the OP, YDI; potentially YDM.
You went overboard with "that doesn't make you look ignorant" because most people will interpret it as insulting, regardless of being true or false. On itself, that wouldn't warrant a ban, only a mod warning; and that's exactly what the mod did.
Then you kept going. Even after the mod warning. You deserved that 1d ban, and probably more. (To be frank I don't even see a 1d ban as a punishment, it's more like giving time for everyone to chill their heads.)
Don't get me wrong; I'm no saint, and I've probably said the same shit you said a thousand times. But in those situations you need to learn when to back off.
EDIT: based on this message, YDM for sure. Yes, the mod is also behaving a bit like an arsehole, but you're going full pass-aggro there.
Correspondence with European scripts:
Devanagari has no European equivalent because Devanagari is perfect, since it's used to write Sanskrit and Sanskrit is the mother of all languages. Except of ULTRAFRENCH of course.
combining elements is not enough. A fundamental aspect of compositionality in human language is that it is productive. We do not just reuse a fixed set of combinations; we generate new ones, effortlessly.
I think this is a great take. And it has a nice implication against language purism:
If compositionality demands the gen of new elements, Language* demands compositionality, and any language* requires Language, then any language requires the gen of new elements. And yet purism is all about not using new elements - no neologisms, no borrowings, just take the language vocab "as is" and deal with it.
In other words, applying purism to a language means to not use said language. Language purists are thus fighting against the very thing they claim to defend.
*capital ⟨L⟩ for the human faculty; minuscule ⟨l⟩ for specific usages of it (like Arabic, Breton, Cherokee, etc.)
Back on non-human primates: I mentioned this in another thread, but IMO "we" (people in general) should stop seeing "is this language?" as a binary matter, and more like a gradient: "how close is this to language?". What they're doing is still not on the same level as we do, but it's already beyond non-linguistic communication.
Thanks for the info. Then I'm glad to have insisted on the main topic, their take on it was sensible.
Without giving you spoilers: based on the novel, the 1st arc is really special. The other arcs (like the 2nd world) are still fun, still worth reading, but they don't reach the same level as the 1st one.
Who was this written by, a Brit?
Nope. Likely an American.
When cooking, people in general like to use round numbers, like "200°C", since a difference of 5°C in oven temperature is not a big deal.
And yet they went with some oddly specific 205°C. That only makes sense if they're used to Fahrenheit, eyeballed a round value (like 400°F), converted it into Celsius (204.4°C), and then rounded it up to discard the decimal.
I'm also going to say they're completely clueless when it comes to cooking - 200°C is the oven temperature. The chicken itself reaches a far lower temperature, in the 70~80°C range. By the time the chicken reached 200°C, it's already dry and close to catching fire. (The self-ignition temperature for biological stuff is typically between 200°C and 250°C.)
Unless demanded by local legislation, that's a clear PTB in my book.
So. You have a link about the usage of force by the dogs of some broligarchic junta. Clearly unnecessary, unless someone thinks people in wheelchair are such a violent threat that it demands such measures. The group was arrested mostly for "Crowding, Obstructing, and Incommoding" - i.e. some "quick, find some law that fits this situation, so we can get rid of those things! Heil Chrump!".
Then you have a commenter (the_q) correctly pointing out shit won't progress unless people actually fight back. And another (PancakesCantKillMe) clearly quoting something; I don't even know (or care) who this Thomas Turbano guy is, but the second comment is clearly a quote.
So, let ask me the following: accordingly to the LW mods, is self-defence violence?
Don't get me wrong - I don't even think they're doing this "intentionally". I get LW mods are full of Good Intentions®, and for the sake of some idyllic vision of pacifism, where tyrants will magically stop being tyrants if you say them "tyranny bad! EDIT WOW THANKS FOR THE GOLD, KIND STRANGER!". However Hell is full of good intentions.
*sigh* in no moment the OOP even implies that.
On-topic: PieFed is packed with a bunch of interesting stuff, mentioned by another user in that thread: better resource usage, better mod tools, gallery view, the ability to combine comments from different comms, a multi-reddit-like feature... and, additionally:
I'm actually rather excited for it, because it seems to be progressing at a fast pace.