So, I saw a report from one of my users. They reported:
https://ponder.cat/post/1594852/1813842
For the reason:
Unreasonable fighting with everyone in every simple post
I think that’s ridiculous, so I talked with them about it. Posting private communications is frowned upon I guess, but long story short, they weren’t receptive. I’ve decided to ban the account.
IMO the general culture on Lemmy is that users are entitled to their free account and everyone needs to be careful and circumspect about limiting that entitlement in any way, but I don’t see it that way. I don’t think it’s a requirement for me to provide hosting space for anyone who wants to use my stuff as a jumping-off point for abuse of Lemmy’s systems, and isn’t apologetic or receptive when I talk with them about not doing that. The fact that it’s in service of harassing FlyingSquid in particular is just icing on the cake, since my perception is that people like to harass him apparently for no legitimate reason at all (with this as an example).
AITA?
I feel like dude comments ALOT and, as a result, he sometimes hits the wrong note. Personally I get irate sometimes but more often I upvote. They’re not like abusive or bannable IMO.
Right… Got into a few sword fights with squid…
Part of the game, he is entitled to express himself as much as people are entitled to challenge him on his hot takes.
That’s how we level up around here IMHO
Seriously. I also get bent out of shape about some types of argumentation and Lemmy posting, probably more than I should. But I don’t at all understand this mentality “If someone starts ARGUING with me and being MEAN with their typing I will have a total ANXIETY CRISIS and it is Lemmy’s job to stop that from HAPPENING at all costs.”
I agree that FlyingSquid sometimes gets wrapped up in extensive arguments that are, arguably, a waste of all participants’ time. I strongly disagree that it’s any kind of crisis, or that “Something must be done!” when that happens.