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I'll give mine to get the ball rolling.

There was a user that, before getting banned, declared that every single living human being alive on Earth right now should not exist because no one had the benefit of a pre-conception device on hand to somehow determine each individual's consent to exist before they started to exist.

I don't know if that take would make David Benatar blush, make David Benatar cackle with glee, or if that was posted by David Benatar himself.

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[–] cosecantphi@hexbear.net 30 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Comrades, are pinned posts authoritarian?

[–] aaaaaaadjsf@hexbear.net 32 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

Do you remember the user, during the early Chapo chat days, that got their account banned because they kept down voting pinned/featured posts? They down voted every pinned or featured post because they didn't like them appearing on their feed. This was back when some idiots kept down voting every trans positive post. A pinned post was then made highlighting this, pointing out that users who continue to down vote anything trans positive would be banned. Then a trans positive megathread was made. They proceeded to down vote the megathread and get banned.

[–] booty@hexbear.net 27 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I remember they made a new account to discuss and dispute the ban and on that new account immediately downvoted the pinned post and got banned for it again michael-laugh

[–] ashinadash@hexbear.net 25 points 2 months ago

Absolute commitment to the bit

[–] aaaaaaadjsf@hexbear.net 21 points 2 months ago

They went down with the ship lol, really sticking to the principle of down voting any pinned thread

[–] TheDoctor@hexbear.net 6 points 2 months ago

This was a moderator and they were also banned for constantly derailing conversations in mod chat, calling for poster unionization (still don’t know what this means), and calling for admin elections (as in server stewardship switching hands). I remember a lot of weirdly passive aggressive behavior in general as well.