Hello everyone,

This is kind of a meta discussion, so if it doesn’t fit the community, let me know and I’ll crosspost it somewhere else.

There has been occurrences of people making broad statements against instances, communities, mods or admins. As Lemmy’s recent versions (0.19.7 I think) allow to see someone’s moderation history in a click (see below), I tend to use it from time to time, especially when the person is targeting admins or not that are known to be level-headed and consistent.

If the modlog shows that this person is indeed known to be toxic or arguing in bad faith, I would then post something like “heavy modlog” with a link to the user’s modlog.

It seems like this behaviour could be considered harassment by some people. On the other hand, it allows people to identify directly if that person is arguing in bad faith, the same way very new accounts get regularly called out on their account age.

What do you think?

  • db0@lemmy.dbzer0.comM
    19·
    23 hours ago

    I think it has merit. If someone is constantly being moderated, it points to a problem user. However just saying “heavy modlog” without looking at the context of those mod actions, can poison the well about people with radical opinions. Sometimes this is warranted, but sometimes not.I can tell you with certainty that if I was inclined to wade into l.w. political comms with my anarchist takes, I would be heavily moderated as well. Hell, even on our instance’s left memes comms ( !flippanarchy@lemmy.dbzer0.com and !leftymemes@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) I get occasionally down-voted to the ground for riling up the libs.

    I think it would make some sense to have a way to see how many different comms have banned that user, and how many different comms have removed their comments. That would give perhaps a better idea

    • Blaze (he/him)@feddit.orgOPEnglish
      12·
      23 hours ago

      I think it would make some sense to have a way to see how many different comms have banned that user, and how many different comms have removed their comments.

      Good point, that’s usually what I instinctively try to look at. Banned from a football due to polite support of their own team? Ok. Several pages of abuse against 15 communities? Not so good.