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?

  • UniversalMonk@r.nfEnglish
    33·
    15 hours ago

    Dude, I didn’t even notice the name of the person posting. I just replied in the thread.

    I have no idea what names of mine that you have blocked or not blocked. I’ve actually kept the same username so that people who want to block me can easily block me.

    You posted in a public forum that I subscribe to. And I replied to the post, in the spirit of the community, and according to the community guidelines.

    There is no deceit on my part.

    This isn’t ban evasion. I’m not evading a ban because I haven’t been banned from this community.

    And besides, if I did use an alt name and proceeded to post the EXACT SAME COMMENT as my original comment, then you wouldn’t have a problem. Yet it would still be me commenting, and you wouldn’t know or care!

    If you don’t want people on Lemmy to comment on your posts, then don’t post to a Lemmy community.