Yeah. FS really seems to take a lot of heat. I think it’s because people have come to know that he will always defend himself. And when they repeatedly antagonize him- it always seems it’s for their entertainment.
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PTB majorly. You don't want to ban people for reports unless they're spamming false reports.
Otherwise you discourage reporting. Think of it this way, would you rather have them just not report things because you ban them or threaten to ban them for things you don't think are personally actionable.
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I don't think I have anything to add that others haven't already said, except for
You're literally PTB - Philip The Bucket
That is all
You are not the asshole. Your logic is reasonable and self consistent.
since my perception is that people like to harass him apparently for no legitimate reason at all
I still have them labeled as an abusive mod for baiting someone into a debate then banning them from the community for engaging in that debate. So I think this user does look for fights, to be fair.
I still have them labeled as an abusive mod for baiting someone into a debate then banning them from the community for engaging in that debate.
When did this happen? I feel like they get sucked into long pointless debates the same as some people on Lemmy, but I feel like it's kind of mutual combat.
I know everyone brings up that one example from months ago when FS arguably threatened to take some kind of unspecified action against someone they were mid-argument with, but did they actually ban someone in that scenario? I have them pegged as more of just an argument junkie than any kind of PTB about it. Maybe I have missed / forgotten about some actual ban they handed out of course.
argument junkie
Thats enough to see why they are polarizing across lots of people.
Here is the exact instance when I flipped the bit on them
I believe the mod in question is an abusive mod: I’ve seen them debate with someone in a conversation, bait them into sparring, then when the person responds, ban them for breaking the rules. That alone is moderator abuse, it’s not being objective, and an environment where the moderator tries to create ban incidents isn’t a friendly one to be in. For this reason I blocked every community where they are a moderator.
Yeah. It's not ideal to have someone with that habit doing moderation. I just don't get how people jump from it to "PTB PTB he's awful."
I feel like, in general, people have to categorize as "good!" or "bad!", and FlyingSquid clearly gets in these bitter arguments sometimes which isn't a good thing to do, and so by default he turns into "bad!" and any bad thing about him becomes true. Like I say, I'm not saying he hasn't been banning people who argue with him, just I've never seen it in several times of checking what was behind people complaining about him. Every time that I remember, it basically boiled down to "He said a rude thing to this person! In a comment!"
I feel like maybe there was one that was recent that was a lot more of an actual PTB, so maybe I am wrong. I can't even remember the details.
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Three-day bans are like spritzing a cat in the face. It's corrective.
Permabans should be reserved for diet Nazi shit. Truly beyond-the-pale, never-gonna-get-better assholerey.
... did you permanently ban someone for asking to have rules enforced, instead of starting shit verbally? Because if so, what the fuck.
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PTB, idk why you would ban someone for this
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