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Who to ban and who to not (lemm.ee)

submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Edit: I've gone and done it. This won't be a common occurrence but I think it is necessary for some users. Hopefully this won't bite me in the ass lmao. Thanks for helping everyone!

Hey everyone. On privacy I generally recognize a lot of people, most are good. But occasionally I encounter someone who I've seen say horrible shit. This is about one:

Mainly they've said some incredibly racist shit, including about my race >:(. Of course I'd ban them, but they said all of this outside the community. I feel it's odd to ban people I don't like for their behavior outside the community.

I've gone pretty lax modding, only banning if you said really shitty stuff only on my community. But I don't want to build a community filled with these types of people.

I also don't want the community to have a bad reputation of banning people I don't like but this guys a known racist.

I'm feeling very conflicted, can anyone help?

PS: the things he said was about Arabs being murderers and rapists. And some racism to Slavs too

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Most of the time it's a bad idea to ban people based on behaviour outside your "turf", but there are some exceptions - and this is clearly one of them, the mere presence of the user in your community is bound to make it less safe to the others.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Yeah, that seems to be the general consensus. I also banned him, hopefully this won't cause a controversy since there are a lot of people who disagree.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I don't think that it will cause a controversy; almost all Lemmy hates racists. And it's fine as long as you're 1) consistent with who you ban, and 2) transparent on why you do it.

And, like, there's always that bitter taste in the mouth when you ban someone, but as you see the comm thriving it makes you think "I did the right thing".

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

I never liked him anyway, and the fact he was so normally accepted here always irked me. But hopefully he'll just get instance banned.

Alot of people view this as not me being unfair to him but me trying to police people's outside behaviour. Fair tbh, but i already have to tolerate a lot of people on that community but sometimes they go too far.

You're right though. thanks :)