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[–] Hazdaz@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Overzealous mods.

Endless OF spam.

Corporate shills.

Permanent bans. Except for egregious cases, ALL bans should be for a certain number of hours to cool the situation down, and then let it go.

[–] TheSpookiestUser@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Permanent bans. Except for egregious cases, ALL bans should be for a certain number of hours to cool the situation down, and then let it go.

You would be surprised at what portion of bans you would consider "egregious cases". Spambots and regular spammers, for one, but also racists, sexists, transphobes, homophobes - basically all manners of bigot. Bigots made up about 97% of my permabans when I was a mod. The other 3% were spammers, serial trolls, and people who were obviously on an alt and ban evading.

[–] TheDoctorDonna@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago

But what else is a mod supposed to do when someone points out their hypocrisy?

[–] yokonzo@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Only fans spam is already creeping on here

[–] LokyinN@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

here take the bonk bat