my read of the situation is that there is some unstated person who, even though they are not literally named "obvious_troll", is similarly enough named that ada thought you were making an indirect attack on that person. again, i don't have the context to know who that would be but i am willing to believe you're all arguing at odds with each other.

(it is like if someone made a shitpost where the butt of the joke was MindGobbler@lemmy.ca)

[–] MindTraveller@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

No, there's no real person similar to Obvious_Troll. I made them up. Ada said in a private message that she didn't realise I made them up and she just assumed they were real. Then two months later, I said they didn't exist, and Ada got confused again. You're jumping through hoops to explain a person being completely mentally incompetent. This person you made up whose name is similar to Obvious_Troll, they don't exist. You're defending a fictional person you made up, just like Ada defended a fictional person I made up.

[–] match@pawb.social 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

what i said is reasonable given, again, the limited context of what i know

[–] MindTraveller@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I don't think it is. You wanted a rational explanation for Ada's behaviour. And I understand that. I understand wanting to think the best of other people. But Ada's behaviour is not rational, and she hasn't earned the trust she has from her communities. We need to stop rationalising her behaviour and thinking the best of her. And that's what the point of that post I made was, and that's what her subsequent comments in the thread demonstrate. A lot of people on Blahaj are making excuses for her when they shouldn't.

[–] match@pawb.social 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

i havent ever thought about ada before this thread and can't evaluate whether she has uneaned trust. it seems like Blahaj is a cool place though (but again, my instance is not federated with a number of other common instances) and ada is the co-admin so i feel like i should have a reasonable amount of trust even if she may have failed in this, imo extremely nuanced, instance

[–] MindTraveller@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 month ago

Blahaj is a cool place despite Ada. Ada asked trans people to come, and a bunch of cool transes arrived. But Ada has consistently gotten in the way of that with bad takes, heavy handed moderation, and defending transphobes.