this post was submitted on 18 Jan 2025
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Ye Power Trippin' Bastards

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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.

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I cannot repost what Flying Squid was posting here, because it involved highly disturbing and dangerous content, including:

Content WarningGraphic content, harassment, self-harm, and suicidal ideation, which I reported immediately.

While this behavior is shocking, it’s not completely out of left field, as members of this community and platform will already be familiar with their behavior. Flying Squid has long been regarded as one of the least productive and most problematic mods on all of Lemmy, often picking fights and abusing their mod privileges. I view this change as a positive step for Squid, .world, and Lemmy as a whole.

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[–] Cephalotrocity@biglemmowski.win -1 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

we have been CALLING THIS GUY OUT FOREVER

The mods aren't the only ones at fault either. He got so much support for this insanity. Call out his BS? Get asked for evidence. Provide text book evidence and it isn't enough. Be clearly in the right from a PTB and downvoted 10:1. The one time he's not technically being a PTB, but rather exhibiting symptoms of manic-depression, and people defend him saying 'this post isn't appropriate' when the history makes it absolutely so. All you upvoting MFs in the past have been cheering a clearly insane person, so maybe do a personal inventory of what seems rational to you and double check reality eh?

I'd be cheering for his removal except he's still mod of a few communities I'd like to participate in. L.W admins need to delete all his content and ban the IP address. I for one can't wait to never see that name on Lemmy ever again and I know I'm not alone.

[–] Blaze@feddit.org 2 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

I'm not a fan of his moderation style, but isn't the last paragraph a bit much?

[–] Cephalotrocity@biglemmowski.win -2 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago) (1 children)

It'd only be enforcing what probably is going to happen voluntarily anyways. My guess is it will be months before he uses the account again because he'll want the drama of 'did he do it?' to play out.

If I thought it wasn't too much I wouldn't have said it, and you saying it is literally supports the first paragraph (edit: which makes it a hilarious joke if that was your intention). He shouldn't be on Lemmy. The damage he's done over time is incalculable and what good would come of letting him back on? Besides it's not like even that could stop him anyways.

[–] Blaze@feddit.org 3 points 3 hours ago

I agree he shouldn't be moderating any community. But IP banning him from the whole site seems too much.