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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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[–] Blaze@feddit.org 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Thank you for your comment.

so I could be wrong. Would you mind elaborating?

The idea would be indeed to create a community that allows to call out toxic and troll users such as the one in the OP. That community would allow to make Lemmy a better place, in the same way than !yepowertrippinbastards@lemmy.dbzer0.com allows to reduce the power tripping mods.

how does a public modlog make Lemmy better than Reddit

I'll edit the title with something along those lines.

Let us not do the whole “Lemmy cool kids, Reddit all neckbeards!” crap, please.

I see. That's definitely not the intent, I'll make sure to rephrase the title and post accordingly.

[–] Elevator7009sAlt@ani.social 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I never participated in callout communities myself, so I'm not sure how effective they are. As an outsider looking in, who has never personally dealt with a toxic user or mod before, it seems like a drama farm. If callout communities actually work as intended, though, or at least successfully warn people about genuinely problematic users/mods (instead of just being a tool to gain public support against civil, behaving users you do not like/a mod who justifiably banned you), then I suppose it's worth creating.

[–] Blaze@feddit.org 1 points 1 day ago

It also allows to suggest alternatives. !world@quokk.au definitely took off after a few reports about !world@lemmy.world

Similarly, the .ml communities being less active thn the other instances version nowadays probably comes from post like https://feddit.nl/post/16246531