So, I saw a report from one of my users. They reported:

https://ponder.cat/post/1594852/1813842

For the reason:

Unreasonable fighting with everyone in every simple post

I think that’s ridiculous, so I talked with them about it. Posting private communications is frowned upon I guess, but long story short, they weren’t receptive. I’ve decided to ban the account.

IMO the general culture on Lemmy is that users are entitled to their free account and everyone needs to be careful and circumspect about limiting that entitlement in any way, but I don’t see it that way. I don’t think it’s a requirement for me to provide hosting space for anyone who wants to use my stuff as a jumping-off point for abuse of Lemmy’s systems, and isn’t apologetic or receptive when I talk with them about not doing that. The fact that it’s in service of harassing FlyingSquid in particular is just icing on the cake, since my perception is that people like to harass him apparently for no legitimate reason at all (with this as an example).

AITA?

  • UniversalMonk@r.nfEnglish
    01·
    11 days ago

    I’ve seen them posting in communities and instances they have previously been banned from.

    Name one. Provide examples. Lots of admins talk to each other. So let’s see some proof of what you have seen.

    The vast, vast majority of my posting is to my own communities. But I’m totally fine with you showing some screen shots of where you have seen me posting to places I am banned from with–time stamps to show that they were posted AFTER any ban. PhiliptheBucket seems to have every timestamp of everything I am posting and even he is not accusing me of what you just have.

    So give me an example of where you have seen me posting to a banned instance and/or community AFTER I was banned.

    I’m almost certain they are ban evading with their alts.

    But you just said you’ve seen me posting in communities and on instances I’ve been banned from. Now you are saying “almost certain.”

    So which is it? Did you see me like you said above or are you “almost certain?”

    And if you are so sure of it it, did you report those to the admin? And do you have examples? Let’s have a look.

    I keep the same fucking username. So it would be pretty hard for me to post in communities that I’m banned from. Seems like the mods could spot it right away.

    If wanted to ban evade, wouldn’t it be easier to just come up with a random name and then post wherever I wanted?

    And again, guys. I am NOT the subject of OP’s original post. This is all off-topic. This thread is not about me. Let it go!