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.
Believe me, I KNOW that feeling - I have made posts that are among some of the most heavily-downvoted in an entire community’s history:-).
Yeah in that case, downvoting AND commenting is fine. I didn’t want to be too long-winded (although I did type up a MUCH longer reply, but then I deleted it all in favor of the above simplicity:-), but definitely there are cases where downvoting is appropriate: e.g. what about polls that say like “upvote if you agree, downvote if you disagree” - voting is mere participation there, not a sign of unfriendliness? And in Reddit there were certain communities where the voting metrics were SUPPOSED to be flipped from the norm.
In general many downvotes means that you might not be a “fit” for what the community is trying to do? I dunno.
Not necessarily - some people may even agree with you, but not like the language (especially more puritanical folks), or some may prioritize the process over content, like react to your tone over your statement, or whatever.
But that’s what I am trying to tell you: perhaps it is that way on Mbin, but it has not been that way for people on Lemmy for months now. Well, tbf it is for those on Lemmy.World that is still running 0.19.3. This information is now ONE SINGLE CLICK AWAY when you are at the comment. I’ll try to see if I can dig up an example, though it will come from one of my Lemmy alts.
Anyway, do as you want, I guess I was saying that you catch more flies with honey than vinegar, but I don’t want to actually tell you what to do, just provide that as a thought so that you don’t feel so powerless: YOU can control what OTHERS think, to some degree, by altering HOW you state something. It’s a thought to consider anyway (e.g., did I just encourage you to think that, by stating it like that?:-).
Removed by mod
I’m still trying to figure out the other comment - I wrote out a long one but it won’t let me send it, and anyway people don’t want to read that much. So just responding to this one here:
DON’T do that. You are better than this. Nobody “makes” you do anything.
Also, you lead by example, not by arguing at people.
A few days ago I took a break from social media. It was… much more difficult than I expected, even for just one day. That dopamine addiction is real yo. Be careful. When I say that you might want to take a break, I don’t mean that bc I actively want to shame you or whatever, but bc I legitimately think it may help. When you return, you will have a different focus - it will be fun again. Make sure to do something else in the meantime, like read books, touch grass, converse more with people irl. You won’t regret it - at least, I never do whenever I’ve tried. Use social media - don’t let it use you.