For the record I was posting in support of inclusive language, but pointing out that context and convention matter.
They seem to have even scrubbed my comment from their instance, lol.
Sorry, but they didn’t call that comment toxic. Just that if an admin finds someone to be toxic, which is of course subjective, they can ban them.
In that case the word “toxic” should not have been used, especially in the way it was used “ban users who are toxic to their instance members” (emphasys mine) rather than “ban users who they think are toxic to their instance members”, as the former implies that the OP is “toxic” rather than that specific Admin conclude (possibly all by themselves) the OP was toxic.
Even if “toxic” had been used in a way that conveyed the message that in this case a person’s “toxicity” was the determination of an Admin (human opinion, rather than some kind of neutral process), I think one of the points that is being made is that for certain Admins, the barrier to ban is a lot lower than “toxic”.
this kind of “Toxicity” is obviously subjective. Just because you don’t agree, doesn’t mean that their members don’t and they don’t in fact expect it of them.