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.nf
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    12 hours ago

    I don’t want this to hurt your feelings, but I actually don’t care about you enough to harass you. My reply in this thread wasn’t harassment by any sense of the word. I didn’t even know it was you.

    You are a prolific poster. One glance at your profile shows how much you are all over Lemmy. So yeah, our paths are gonna cross.

    I have never called you names. I have never sent you harassing DM’s. We’ve only talked in public forums. And even then, we haven’t actually interacted that much.

    Think of it like this. Let’s say your goal was achieved and I was banned from across the fediverse.

    Do you think that would make me disappear? No, I’d just create a new name, and come back. (Which by the way, would officially be the definition of ban-evasion, unlike your definition.)

    But you wouldn’t know it was me.

    So an example from that scenario: Let’s say I pick a news name of BobSmithy. I see this post. And I reply with. “PTB in my opinion. It seems banning someone for one post is a bit extreme.Totally your call, but that’s how I see it when other mods do actions similar as to yours.”

    Ok, you’d read it, shrug, move on. Not that big of a deal.

    That’s the exact fucking thing I posted. But you saw it was from the big bad evil “UNIVERSAL MONK!!!” and you lost your shit.

    You gotta stop thinking about me so much. It’s making you crazy. You’re talking about yesteryear of dial phones, and philosophy of pixels and search query and wanting to make long legal history notes of how what I am doing is targeting you.

    Look how many posts I make. How many have been about you or to you? Maybe 5 or 6? And you think that’s targeting you?

    Also, just so you know, if you all wouldn’t have fought soooo fucking hard to get me banned on .world, we wouldn’t have this problem. Because I’d still be on one instance. One block and you’d never hear from me.

    But you and a few others decided to get soo vocal and scream to the moderators that now I never know when I’ll get banned, so I have to spread my name out. Which is what the point of the fediverse is.

    I posted a reply to a PUBLIC POST that you made to this community. And the reply wasn’t personal. And it followed the rules of this community.

    Not only that, but you listed with glee that I was banned for lemm.ee. And you’ve listed all my other bannings. But I have no idea if you have been banned from any instance. Cuz i don’t look you up. And I don’t care.

    But you certainly look me up. And post stats.

    Think about that: I don’t know about your post times, or servers, what comments have been removed or where you have been banned from.

    Because I don’t stalk you. Yet you know all that info, and post it. And this isn’t your first time posting my stats.

    Think about that, friend.

    I’m not leaving Lemmy. If banned under this name, I would come back under something else. (Before you all message the poor mods, don’t convict me of thoughtcrimes before they happen.)

    So for your mental health, just ignore me, don’t react to me, or comment about me. It’s not healthy to obsess so much.

    I have no ill will toward you. I will try to not reply to you unless you ask me to. But dude, you post more than I do, you’re in almost all the communities I’m in.

      • UniversalMonk@r.nf
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        3 hours ago

        Not me. Not my account. Not even my username. I’ve reported you for falsely stating that this is me.

        Do you have any proof at all that that is me? I don’t even know why you would think it was me.

        Please provide proof, because I, and the admin, would love to see it. You keep bringing that up as me and I have already said it was me.

        And it looks like that user was banned anyway.