you shouldn't become a mod if you feel this fucking inconvenienced by a report lol

putting the blame on the reporting user is fucking ridiculous. the same 2 seconds the user could've taken to look at the other person's profile are the 2 seconds the fucking mod could've taken to, y'know, dm a snouts mod instead of screenshot dunking lmao

I said earlier that I'd talk about this, so.

It's important to know what DARVO is and how it's used as a tool to bully people into silence/complicity in bad behavior.

DARVO is an acronym. It stands for:

Deny
Attack
Reverse Victim and Offender.

It is a technique that is used by abusive people to cover up their abuse.

It is incredibly common. Knowing how to spot it is key.

1. RussellsBarbershopQuartet, a Jewish user on monads dot online, posts a reply to a thread about Zionism: https://monads.online/@RussellsBarbershopQuartet/104982401836594882

2. The reply gets reported.

3. Dankwraith, monads admin, decides there was no rules violation...

4. ...and then screenshots the report (which happens to be from snouts dot online) to sling an intelligence-based insult at the anonymous reporter for reporting the post from 1 for antisemitism: https://monads.online/@dankwraith/104990437888262828 (fig. 1)

5. Shel, a Snouts user who happens to be dating a Snouts admin, replies to a thread from dankwraith where dankwraith continues to post about how ridiculous it is to report a Jewish user for antisemitism - https://monads.online/@dankwraith/104990466930657775 - to say that making public threads mocking people for sending reports that could well be in good faith is a bad thing: https://snouts.online/@shel/104990740914947748 (fig. 2)

6. DemoWeasel, A Snouts user - not a mod (some people say ex-mod?) and not previously involved in any of this - makes a comment about a past moderation argument, gets a hostile reply, and then dismisses that reply with an alt-right meme.

(Specifically, the Clown World one. LexYeen linked to a thing about it in https://snouts.online/@LexYeen/104994966587399624 with appropriate caveats.)

7. LuigiEsq on mastodon dot social screenshots this and describes it as "a Snouts mod calling everyone evil shitposters and then sending a Pepe to a native person the minute they get criticized." https://mastodon.social/@LuigiEsq/104994978198511778 (fig. 3)

8. DemoWeasel acknowledges being called out, apologizes, deletes the post, says he'll look into the folks using it to see if they're ignorant or fash https://snouts.online/@demoweasel/104994980715183422 (not bothering to screenshot because it's irrelevant).

As far as we can tell, that's the context of everything so far. There's also a lot of incidental ableism we didn't mention because it's not part of the discourse.

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