I saw that a user was banned by moderator on my instance and their comments removed. I don’t have a moderator, it’s just me, I’m the only user. I thought I accidently fumble fingrred the ban button and restored their comments and appologize. Come to find out that they were banned from their own instance.

I’m not sure how I feel about that. On one hand it’s good if it’s a really bad user posting spam or worse. On the other hand it is a conduit for censorship. If an admin doesn’t like what you post on another instance, then they can censor you everywhere. On top of that, it makes it look like I am banning people, and I don’t like that at all if they’re just making normal comments. It should say something else and I should get some kind of alert that lets me know so that I can decide if the comments on my instance are appropriate.

  • PriorityMotif@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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    3 days ago

    It looks like they had been banned from a community a week and a half ago and then banned completely yesterday. I can’t find any other bans.

    They certainly had a lot of political hot takes, some popular some not. Account was a month old, so they may be a ban evader.

    I did find this comment, but again, I can’t tell what it’s in referrence to.

    My mindset is that if they’re following the rules of my communities what they do outside of those communities is their own business.

    My communities are a place for people to post their shared experiences. The more people can humanize each other, the less they will act out.