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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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[–] 1984@lemmy.today -2 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

Honestly, the stuff people complain about on Lemmy is a bit ridiculous. I know it's not a popular opinion so probably no point mentioning it here, but... Yeah. People freak out about the smallest things.

Stuff like "misinformation" (person is having an opinion that is not based on science), or "ableism" (person is making a joke about stupid people).

Haven't seen any real racism on Lemmy, but lots of people who think personal opinions about people from another race is racism. Like "the Indians I have met have been very quiet" = racism. :)

[–] fxomt@lemm.ee 3 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

No the stuff he said is calling Arabs murderers and rapists. He also said some pretty racist stuff about Russians (not Russia, the people themselves)

He's done this shit multiple times :/