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
Whatever you decide, I wouldn’t stress about it too much.
Part of the advantage of the Fediverse is that it does not have or benefit from any one moderation policy, but has many different moderation policies that can appeal to many different types of people.
Regarding this individual case, I would make sure you look at the context and spirit of that users actions. On one extreme, they could be throwing abuse at fellow users and being intentionally destructive in an unsuitable place.
On the other extreme, they could be participating in a shitpost community and speaking more sarcastically, just going for shock value.
There’s a whole range between these two extremes. Where you end up drawing the line is entirely up to you and what sort of instance you want to run.
the guy has a huge modlog. heres the comment i was talking about (theres much more but im too tired to paste) he’s also said this about russians (not russia mind you, citizens):