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?

  • ikidd@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    12 hours ago

    Is it a coincidence your username acronym is PTB? because I don’t think this comm has been around as long as that username.

    • PhilipTheBucket@ponder.catOP
      2·
      12 hours ago

      Sometimes, the universe just needs to provide its input on some kind of situation, and there’s not going to be a thing that you or I or anybody can do to stop it from voicing its opinion.