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?

  • @[email protected]OP
    3•7 days ago
    • Here’s me, at 9:04 on Feb 4, mentioning you: https://ponder.cat/post/1520414/1734558
    • Also there is you, at 9:10, replying to me (which I didn’t see because I have that alt blocked): https://ponder.cat/post/1520414/1734616
    • I’m not sure how much I can say without violating some kind of privacy line. But, at 9:38, you were interacting with my content from a little while before any of this had happened, from your sh.itjust.works account.
    • Then, at 9:39, you switched to your vegantheoryclub account and the first thing you did was comment under a post I’d made a couple of hours prior: https://ponder.cat/comment/1734903

    Not sure how much clearer I can make it. I would love to be able to block and move on, that’s what I did. You are committed to not respecting the block, taking actions from new alts which will send me notifications, and then lying in this strange fashion about it. I understand why you’re pretending that’s not what you did. But I’m happy to provide proof in the form of screenshots or anything else. Or, any admin can verify it.

    You are allowed to be here, sure. Everyone is. You’re not allowed to violate the rules of the space. And, when someone’s sufficiently unrepentant about not respecting the rules of the space, they lose their right to be here. Your commitment to going beyond “saying what you want” and instead, among other things, starting to harass and irritate other users deliberately when they exercise their right to say what they want, is exactly what keeps losing you accounts. That’s the system protecting itself.