You may have noticed a distinct lack of return2ozma. This is due to their admitting, in a public comment, that their engagement here is in bad faith:
I'm sure there will be questions, let me see if I can address the most obvious ones:
- Can I still post negative stuff about Biden?
Absolutely! We have zero interest in running an echo chamber. However, if ALL you're posting is negative, you may want to re-think your priorities. You get out of the world what you put into it and all that.
- Why now?
Presumption of innocence. It may be my own fault, but I do try to think the best of people, and even though they were posting negative articles, they weren't necessarily WRONG. Biden's poll numbers, particularly in minority demographics ARE in the shitter. They are starting to get better, but he still has a hell of a hill to climb.
- Why a 30 day temp ban and not a permanent ban?
The articles return2ozma shared weren't bad, faked, or from some wing-nut bias site like "beforeitsnews.com", they were legitimate articles from established and respected news agencies, pointing out the valid problems Biden faces.
The problem was ONLY posting the negatives, over and over and then openly admitting that dishonest enagement is their purpose.
Had they all been bullshit articles? It would not have taken anywhere near this much time to lay the ban and it would have been permanent.
30 days seems enough time for them to re-think their strategery and come back to engage honestly.
Hey, a permaban is always on the table. ;)
I find it's about 70/30 when it comes to temp bans. 7/10 I get PMs of "sorry, I'll do better" and then 3/10 it's... well... (note, this was a different user)
Christ in a hand basket, if that's genuine then I say ban the troll
Oh, yeah, this guy was permabanned across the whole instance, not just Politics.
Whoever that was was going off about this, lmao.
I think he got banned in my instance as well because he kept posting your profile photo over and over, saying nasty ass shit. I blocked him real quick.
I just checked the date, and this is a different asshole lol
The one I saw was around the time I first came onto lemmy and hoo boy, was he all verklempt and mighty pissed off.
Oh, the photo guy was a TOTALLY DIFFERENT one.
Y'all got profile photos? Weird
Good
Yikes -ee-ola
That's unhinged
...and people behaving like this is why we cannot have nice things. I can remember the days of BBS (often heavily moderated) as contrasted with the (mostly unmoderated) USENET.
I think things on the unmoderated side were only barely holding on prior to The Eternal September; in hindsight, it is surprising things worked as well as they did.