I noticed today an occurence of a user complaining about Lemmy being worse then Reddit. The modlogs shows how toxic they are. When this was pointed out, the user deletes their account

https://web.archive.org/web/20241217101003/https://sopuli.xyz/post/20276017?scrollToComments=true

Deleted account: https://kbin.melroy.org/u/Pyrin

This seems to address the question that comes up once in a while “a public modlog is only useful for mods” (https://feddit.org/post/4920887/3235141), while we can see from this example that it can also be useful for toxic users.

As you may know, !yepowertrippinbastards@lemmy.dbzer0.com is a community dedicated to calling out power tripping mods.

Should we consider having a similar community for toxic users?

There is already !fediverselore@lemmy.ca, but I feel like the “lore” is more about large-scale events (like the cats wave recently) than specific users events.

Edit: Updated the title, and put the emphasis on creating a community to call out toxic users rather than “dunking” on the users that was banned.

  • Blaze (he/him)@feddit.orgOPEnglish
    72·
    8 days ago

    Interesting.

    While there are definitely issues sometimes (but then the mods of the community usually lock the threads), it’s been quite useful to show how biased some moderation actions are sometimes performed.

    It also allows to suggest alternatives. !world@quokk.au definitely took off after a few reports about !world@lemmy.world

    • jet@hackertalks.comEnglish
      52·
      8 days ago

      Sure, there is utility, but right now it is less about “did a mod follow the posted rules” and more about “do I agree with the rule”… which we have seen in the last week’s news cycle, power tripping bastards has gotten super toxic.

      The forum to moderate moderators needs strong moderation :)