Where you acting as a mod or an admin? Perhaps mod actions do get federated. I am the mod in that community, but I took an admin action to fully ban the account and remove the content. Perhaps if I would have taken mod actions instead by deleting every comment manually it would have federated… I will test next time!
But wait, I had a similar issue:
Is this normal? It seems to contradict your experience
Also, if that may help, I don’t see the spammer messages on the post in !science@mander.xyz
I can still see the spammer messages, look: https://lemmy.ca/post/10554277
Where you acting as a mod or an admin? Perhaps mod actions do get federated. I am the mod in that community, but I took an admin action to fully ban the account and remove the content. Perhaps if I would have taken mod actions instead by deleting every comment manually it would have federated… I will test next time!
Ah, that’s interesting! I was indeed a mod, not an admin, so probably that’s why the action got federated.
Example: https://jlai.lu/post/2612405 https://lemmy.ca/post/10554287