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How Lemmy public modlog allows to call out toxic and troll users, and should we have a community about this? (feddit.org)

submitted 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) by Blaze@feddit.org to c/fedigrow@lemm.ee

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I noticed today an occurence of a user complaining about Lemmy being worse then Reddit. The modlogs shows how toxic they are. When this was pointed out, the user deletes their account

https://web.archive.org/web/20241217101003/https://sopuli.xyz/post/20276017?scrollToComments=true

Deleted account: https://kbin.melroy.org/u/Pyrin

This seems to address the question that comes up once in a while "a public modlog is only useful for mods" (https://feddit.org/post/4920887/3235141), while we can see from this example that it can also be useful for toxic users.

As you may know, !yepowertrippinbastards@lemmy.dbzer0.com is a community dedicated to calling out power tripping mods.

Should we consider having a similar community for toxic users?

There is already !fediverselore@lemmy.ca, but I feel like the "lore" is more about large-scale events (like the cats wave recently) than specific users events.

Edit: Updated the title, and put the emphasis on creating a community to call out toxic users rather than "dunking" on the users that was banned.

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[–] recursive_recursion@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Name and shame is a good way to discourage bad behaviors

[–] Aphelion@lemm.ee 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Doesn't seem that effective if they can just delete their account and start a new one.

[–] recursive_recursion@lemmy.ca 1 points 21 hours ago

sure but most won't immediately trust the comments/posts from a new account so the user has to attempt to build credibility again

Either way, this system ensures that fediverse instance you're on provides users with the best and worst of the admins' and moderators' logic & beliefs.

The fact that fediverse provides this system by default means that users will most likely migrate towards instances that they trust the most.

Toxic individuals will rarely disappear for good but the majority of users will most likely be those beneficial to themselves and others on the shared instance.