cross-posted from: https://lemmy.cafe/post/12702247
offending user (CW transphobia and queerphobia)
https://lemmy.sdf.org/u/ashton1593
it’s worse than just that. SDF apparently had zero review process for creating subs and this user is abusing it to spam transphobia and violence. got about 30 reports in before they banned me tho ;3
Other instances have review processes for new communities? Thought it was an exception not a rule to have? (I don't make comms haha)
Star Trek Star Wars, spacey scifi, same bullshit.
Offending user indeed!
But seriously this individual is dumping toxins like a Capt Planet villain. I felt gross after scrolling their profile.
IDK what's up, but I can't even find that SayNoToNazis community anymore. The single post on there from a community member had a ton of removed messages when I found it.
I checked the mod log on my app and it isn't saying anything about my comment being removed. I had made a comment about how their post invited me to finally look up what their instance is all about and finding one sdf(dot)org, which lead to a rabbit hole as one of their listed members is apparently some Old Line Primitive Baptists group, who seem like a weird religious group to me (not cult like but not normal). Tried replying to a message on my comment, but it wasn't working. Reloaded the app thinking it's an issue on my end, and the whole post vanished.
Your instance may have taken action on the community.
I’m confused, is that instance for the right?
No SDF is a general purpose instance for anyone interested in Old Tech, Nostalgia, or Linux and Open source in general. It seems this asshole just managed to get in and start posting evil shit. Hopefully they ban his ass from there forever.
I guess that's the unfortunate part about how Lemmy handles reports. They seem to go to everyone involved so if you are reporting content a moderator is posting they'll know.
Yeah I can't really say I'm surprised. I've known about this for a while now. I've asked Lemmy's Devs about having more granular report control or admin only reports for situations like this but they refuse to listen and instead just go on about shoulds and how community mods should manage their community.
I am currently working on admin only reports.
Oh, that's good. I apologize for coming off as harsh in that case. I remembered a situation where someone was arguing with me saying that it would be bad or useless since community mods need to run their own communities and shouldn't be bypassed. Glad to see its being worked on.
I hope we see some kind of change in line with what you suggested. With each instance and community having different rules most of the time reports are going to be situational.
If I am correct with the current report configuration if I ran a community with a no memes rule and someone reported someone's post for being a meme that would get sent to myself but also the admins of both instances for no real reason. It's only in times of egregious rule violations like the CSAM attacks that hit Lemmy a while ago or threats against a user that I could see reports going everywhere as being useful. Kind of like a panic button.
I'd also like to see the option to report communities. I don't think that exists right now and most people are doing it in whatever the meta community is on their instance. I get people might want a discussion before a community is removed or banned but I feel like more often than not it's just hate speech whack-a-mole where it isn't really needed.
I saw nutomic repsonded to your comment by the way. Glad to see it's being worked on.
edited post body to explain sorry for the confusion
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.
All posts should follow this basic structure:
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.
YTPB matrix channel: For real-time discussions about bastards or to appeal mod actions in YPTB itself.
Some acronyms you might see.
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