I've been trying to disentangle from this whole thing, since I feel like I've reiterated what I had to say about it at some length for people who are interested to hear it, but I'll address this:

Is it really a big deal getting a random ban from a community you don't particularly care about in order to help protect the mod of that community from a harassment campaign? Since you like your Socrates, which one of those two things is worse? Which one is more likely to lead to self harm or psychological damage?

Instigating balkanization and random attacks on random users, and then justifying it by getting all histrionic about how some totally different person did something horrible (and, obviously, was banned for it) and somehow that needs to attach to me and OP, because reasons, is harmful. It is itself a harassment campaign. It also, as I keep pointing out, has literally nothing at all to do with protecting this moderator from the original actual harassment campaign. It's like "stop and frisk." It's like throwing all the communists in prison because one allegedly set fire to the Reichstag. It won't solve the problem, it's just an excuse to attack.

I don't care about the ban itself, certainly not enough to speak directly to the mod in question and risk being attacked for "harassing" them by sending them DMs. They're welcome to weigh in here if they want, I'm sure they're aware of the conversation. My concern is with the underlying logic and people doubling down on it here. Picking fights with random people for no reason at all, declaring them as enemies because of a vague alleged association with some enemy "community," and encouraging tribalization of the space into a series of little "with us or against us" houses because of the actions of a handful of dickheads, hurts all of us. Making excuses for it, because the tribe of the person doing the balkanization happens to line up with your tribe, is also I would argue actually hurting their mental health also in the long run. You're missing an opportunity to call them out on behaviors which if they're doing them in real life will hurt them a lot more than anything that can happen just with the keyboard and screens.

I get the idea that they've been hurt by these attacks and they feel like they need to start lashing out and everyone becomes an enemy who does anything even vaguely (not really) similar, and so if they can throw enough preemptive accusations at anything that even reminds them of the other thing, then they'll feel safe. If that is what is happening, then I get it. I think the solution, like I already said, would be more of an open dialogue with that person. Honestly I think maybe the people they're close to (i.e. not me, who's already classed as an "enemy" somehow) should be making sure they feel supported and like people are going to go to bat for them against any trolls or attackers who come their way. I'm sure there are plenty of drive-by "lol AI sucks" comments coming into these communities from time to time. If they feel like they're alone and already vulnerable and then it gets coupled with more vicious attacks once people sense that they're vulnerable (which, again, this is all instigating 10 times more of), then yeah that can be really distressing. I get it. If that's what is going on. So just be vigorous against the actual problem.

If I were the type of malicious person who liked to throw insults and create new accounts to sling mud at someone who I knew it would really work effectively to upset, then getting banned from these random communities and then finding out the whole drama would definitely put them 100% on my radar as a worthwhile target to attack. I think a good conversation with the mod helping them understand some of how this stuff functions and making sure they know that the db0 admins will be in their corner when something does inevitably happen would help them to feel actually better about it and be able to be in a better mental state, where what they're currently doing will do the opposite. But also, the flip side of that is protecting other people against them, making sure that you're not just feeding into any particular attack that someone who's in the club feels like making at any time against someone who's not in it.

Does that make sense? Maybe not, that's just how I see it.