And Lemmy has an issue with it's backend implementation which sometimes causes multiple copies of a comment being posted without the posters knowledge.
It then gets flagged as spam and the poster banned. Ask me how I know.
how do you know?
how do you know?
I searched for the issue when it happened to me and saw a bug report for it with the Lemmy devs confirming.
how do you know?
how do you know?
Well shit. At the same time the ban hammer seems a bit easy both ways :') Like you can at least look at the poster's history...
PTB. Squid is a prolific poster, but seems to take things personally very quickly.
If you're going to abuse your powers, you should do so by abstract principles, like whether or not a commenter likes pineapple on their pizza, not how they react towards you!
PTB, publicly outing reports and trying to intimidate them is not cool, if you want to discuss someone's reports with them, do it in their DMs.
Also here's a tip for any admin or mod wishing to discuss the report with someone. Quote the report you're addressing. I can't see my own reports, so if an admin or mod wanted to discuss the last reports I made, it's possible I would have to think really hard to remember what he was talking about, or just flat out not remember. Because I do make a lot of reports, unfortunately, as there is a lot of problematic content and users out there.
Edit: I did make an issue in the Lemmy GitHub requesting this feature, so if you agree that this could be useful I suggest you go express the desire for such a feature over there. I included being able to edit and delete reports, but if that's too much at least the ability to read my own reports I've sent.
Example of a DM that a Mod or admin could use to address reports with someone
Text from report
(can include multiple reports here with gaps between them as needed)
[content of their message addressing the report to the user]
FlyingSquid flaunts his mod powers and bans users which don't submit to his Zionist world views by making shit up.
Lemmy.World is the most Reddit of Lemmies.
Lemmy.World is the most Reddit of Lemmies.
Well, among the ones that anyone federates with. exploding-heads is still way more reddit than world is.
*Was, they shut down a while back and largely moved to Nostr, but another instance, hilariouschaos, took their place, they're not as aggressive as EH was but they still have many of the same users and ideals as EH did back then.
They shut down? Good.
Yeah, though I'm not sure if hilariouschaos is much better. They have limited whitelist-only federation so they are at least self-limiting in their reach, and many servers have recognized them as an EH clone so have defederated, this one (dbzer0) being one of them.
CLM - sounds like @FlyingSquid@lemmy.world needs to understand the tools a bit more given how active they are.
Turns out I've blocked this user already. Are they a mod?
Apparently so? They’re terminally online so it’s disappointing they don’t understand Lemmy better. Had it been almost any other user I wouldn’t have recognized the name at all.
They’re terminally online
It's funny you say that. I have them tagged exactly as that after some comment thread they were in. Since I tagged them, it's unbelievable how often posts and comments from them show up in my feed
Is that person a mod? I blocked them and my lemmy experience has been way better.
Same. Literally the only person I've blocked. I also made sure to leave every community they mod. Certainly a vibe I could do without.
They allow dis- & misinformation on a news community and threaten you when you report even the most obvious Tankie propaganda, which is why I blocked it. Not the only dumb take I've seen from them.
I've been threatened/banned for calling out propaganda too
You should reach out to lemmy.world's admins about the situation, explain the problem to them and they might be able to help with it. I'd recommend doing the same thing any time an issue comes up around this particular mod. Eventually they'll get enough complaints and he'll be given the boot from those communities by the administration.
Squid can be a little quirky like that sometimes.
Sometimes? They are the only person I have ever blocked in all of my years on both reddit or lemmy. Such an odd combination of self importance, rage, entitlement and ego.
I'd almost forgotten about them until they showed up in a screenshot for being exactly how I remember.
Why is it whenever I notice a mod, or see anyone complain about a mod, it's always the exact same mod?
Are all Lemmy mods chill except this singular prickly tranch?
PTB, (or maybe just "clueless bastard"?): Ye publicly outing your report because they don't understand lemmy is pretty bad.
What was their response?
All Mods Are Bastards
Not the first time they've supported a spammer, and their post history is full of Hail Corporate bullshit.
With this person as a mod, the spam is coming from inside the house.
This is a community in the spirit of "Am I The Asshole" where people can post their own bans from lemmy or reddit or whatever and get some feedback from others whether the ban was justified or not.
Sometimes one just wants to be able to challenge the arguments some mod made and this could be the place for that.
Expect to receive feedback about your posts, they might even be negative.
Make sure you follow this instance's code of conduct. In other words we won't allow bellyaching about being sanctioned for hate speech or bigotry.
Some acronyms you might see.
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