Disclaimer: Fuck the rich and please consider reading 1 paragraph before you go to comments to explain how I am a bootlicker. Thank you ٩(•͈ ꇴ •͈)و ̑̑❀

For context, I generally report all calls to violence, no matter who the “victim” is, whether they are a public figure or an anonymous user. I didn’t even register that the person I was “defending” was rich—I’m just aware that calls to violence are against most instances’ terms of service (due to legal threats). Genuinely sorry seahorse! I wish you just had something in your instance sidebar or even spoke to me instead of jumping to ban and “lib” insults!

Unverifiable information you will have to take my word for (per community rules)

Apologized to seahorse and got:

My own personal curiosities only adjacently related

Correct me if I’m wrong, isn’t this a bit of an abuse of federation? This is the same admin that pulled the move with the doxxing of Nick Fuentes. By banning users for reporting content that may violate our local instance rules, seahorse is making our local instances harder to moderate for our admins. (Honestly I respect the commitment to the running a very open and uncensored instance, but until Lemmy has the option to only report to local admins versus local & federated authorities, this may not be the best strategy?)

Anyway, this is pretty interesting. I’m honestly not too pressed about this (mostly I will miss !theonion@midwest.social) and curious what yall think. :)

  • southsamurai@sh.itjust.works
    422·
    10 days ago

    Okay, that listed reason is so five-year-old-on-a-sugar-high that I ain’t even mad. Like, it goes beyond power tripping into comedy via absurdity.

    However, if you’re running around playing playground monitor, I can’t say I blame them. Report abuse is a thing, and depending on how far you’re taking it, it could well be absurdist as well

    • spujb@lemmy.cafeOPEnglish
      142·
      10 days ago

      Obviously I didn’t keep count but I can’t have made more than maybe 1-3 reports in the last day? Believe me I hear you though! That’s why I was so apologetic to him and reached out before posting here. I hate to he a nuisance and genuinely just try to help people out haha.

      • southsamurai@sh.itjust.works
        12·
        10 days ago

        That’s not much, imo. Certainly not nuisance or troll levels at all. Hell, I don’t think I would even notice that many considering that word of mouth has most instances generating at least dozens of reports a day. Not that word of mouth is exactly reliable, but as a rough guesstimate of things, someone making good faith reports at that frequency is nothing.

        For damn sure it would merit a “bugger off” before even a temp ban

        • spujb@lemmy.cafeOPEnglish
          6·
          10 days ago

          I invite anyone reading this comment to time themselves on how long it takes to DM me “chill with the reports or ban” and report back

          • catloaf@lemm.eeEnglish
            4·
            10 days ago

            Seconds.

            I’ve had a mod DM me in reply to a report exactly once (and they replied to my reply, so maybe twice). It’s not difficult for them.

            • spujb@lemmy.cafeOPEnglish
              7·
              10 days ago

              I have had mods do it probably half a dozen times from various communities. A couple were to say thanks, some were to ask for clarification on why I reported. One instance I was reporting every single abusive comment of a user who had gone under the radar for weeks and they were just like “yo you can stop reporting we are working on it.” 😅

              All of those times I was grateful for the open and candid communication.