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?

  • Draconic NEO@lemmy.dbzer0.com
    31·
    13 hours ago

    TBH, I don’t think it’s really against any rules to dup a username across instances as SMCF is actually on .world. However, this is being done with malice and should be addressed. UM must have been holding a grudge from when he was banned from .world.

    Yeah I agree, having multiple accounts with the same username is okay when your intention isn’t to cause malice. When one is doing it to impersonate/namesquat or just to troll and ban evade then it’s a problem. It’s part of why I have as many as I do. It makes it extremely difficult for people to impersonate me, except on the handful of excommunicated instances I never signed up to but those will be very clearly recognized as impersonation.

    • UniversalMonk@r.nfEnglish
      12·
      5 hours ago

      Yeah I agree, having multiple accounts with the same username is okay when your intention isn’t to cause malice.

      Ok, then why bring all the stuff up? And I’m not even the subject of this thread.

      When one is doing it to impersonate/namesquat or just to troll and ban evade then it’s a problem.

      Which I have never done.

      It’s part of why I have as many as I do.

      So you are jumping on this bandwagon attacking me, and you have multiple freakin usernames on multiple instances? Say wat bro?! You were just pointing out how terrible i was for being multiple instances!

      • Draconic NEO@lemmy.dbzer0.com
        21·
        5 hours ago

        I frankly don’t believe you and I don’t think you believe that yourself. You’ve been caught in the act both for impersonation and ban evasion. You are not innocent here and if you were you should’ve appealed instead of making more accounts.

        • UniversalMonk@r.nfEnglish
          12·
          5 hours ago

          You’ve been caught in the act both for impersonation and ban evasion.

          Please provide proof. I have not impersonated anyone, nor have I been “caught in the act” of doing that. Please provide proof.

          And please provide the ban evasion proof, because you last proof wasn’t, and I showed why the admins didn’t think it was either.

          Also, I am not the subject of this PTB thread. I am not the user in the OP. So you all are going off-topic anyway.