Should I moderate communities like a bot? (lemm.ee)

submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by sag@lemm.ee to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world

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I made this post saying that we should bend community rules sometime, but it get downvoted, so I think most Lemmy users disagree. I'm kinda confused - should I remove posts and ban users if they break rules even slightly?

For example, this post on !internetisbeautiful@lemm.ee doesn't actually fit the community rules, but I didn't delete it because it was made in good faith.

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[-] Apytele@sh.itjust.works 12 points 1 week ago

Well said. This is the only person I've ever personally banned and it's because they went out of their way to start multiple fights over silly shit.

[-] lvxferre@mander.xyz 8 points 1 week ago

I'm checking the Curated Tumblr thread and modlog. Holy fuck, what a shitty user - clearly behaving passive-aggressively. I've seen more oldschool forums being ruined by those than by the ones hurling insults.

[-] Apytele@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Yeah when I got that report and responded all I could think was "this thread is basically incomprehensible. Why are these people arguing poetry vs theoretical physics? It's like arguing whether or not TMNT is enjoyable based on it not being an accurate depiction of turtle biology?????" There is a time and a place to get this heated about the fundamental concepts that define the universe we inhabit but a lemmy post about a Tumblr post that's written like an overly dramatic fanfiction just ain't it. The last time I got into an argument that dumb (somewhat coincidentally also on tumblr) was literally over half my life ago!

[-] lvxferre@mander.xyz 2 points 1 week ago

I still get into this sort of dumb argument all the time, so I kind of get why the other users were arguing the troll - even if you don't know why their comment pisses you off, you still get pissed and it's hard to not react when pissed.

[-] Blaze@lemmy.cafe 3 points 1 week ago

Crazy to see I commented on that thread too. Lemmy is a small world

[-] Apytele@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 week ago

Yeah like tbh the original comment thread wasn't worth banning them. Kinda silly but whatever. Literally everything after that was worth a ban though. They picked a molehill and just... fought to the last breath on it.

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