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

submitted 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) by fxomt@lemm.ee to c/fedigrow@lemm.ee

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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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[–] fxomt@lemm.ee 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

That's also what I was concerned about. Thanks for your input :)

[–] Libb@jlai.lu 5 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

You're welcome.

BTW, it's also clear that it can be difficult to not react when facing an asshole of some sort, but I think that's one of the main thing that make us different from them: our ability to not let our emotions dictate our (re)actions. That doesn't mean we should like them, not even a little bit ;)

[–] fxomt@lemm.ee 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Yeah, I mainly posted due to this guy practically being a white supremacists and saying my race are murderers and rapists. I'll just report to the instance instead of just banning them.

[–] Libb@jlai.lu 3 points 3 weeks ago

That's what would do.