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.
I think its not a great idea.
Mods are like politicians, they need to be held accountable. Users are like the citizens/residents, if someone did something wrong, there should be judgement by the “court system” or in case of an online forum, judged by moderators. A civillian not involved in politics (aka: doing forum moderation) shouldn’t face as much scrutiny as a politician.
We protest when politicians do bad things. But we don’t form a mob and go to a civillian’s house to harass them when they do bad things, that just brings the pitfork mob mentality. A user who isn’t doing moderation shouldn’t have to face a mob, such a community is just gonna become a place to harass users.
TLDR: Moderators should face more scrutiny than users. Users shouldn’t have to face a mob’s judgement everytime whenever there’s perceived wrongdoing.