I wasn’t even the mod involved in this until they decided to spew abuse at me in a completely unrelated community that I do mod. Ugh. Why are people like this, and why are so many of them on this platform?

Edit: If this is too close to the spirit of rule 5, I apologize and no hard feelings if you remove it. Trying to make a general point here and anonymized all the identifying bits.

Edit 2: Some of you recognized the user despite my attempts to anonymize things. While it’s all there in the modlog, please don’t doxx the user as I’m only highlighting the behavior and have already reported them via proper/official channels and shown them the door for the little communities I run.

  • Admiral Patrick@dubvee.orgOPEnglish
    7·
    2 days ago

    Not to my knowledge, but I’m also out of that loop since I’ve defedded YPTB’s entire instance because of shit like that.

    • Eldritch@piefed.worldEnglish
      6·
      2 days ago

      Fair enough and rather a common sentiment. I think that’s about the only community there I follow and mostly to observe.

      • Unruffled [they/them]@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        8·
        2 days ago

        I know it gets a bit fractious and isn’t for everyone, but imo YPTB provides a useful way to track mod abuses across instances, and works as a disincentive for mods/admins to abuse their powers. Of course, it isn’t always a pleasant experience to be dragged in there, but it does make one think twice before acting, which has a moderating effect.

        • Eldritch@piefed.worldEnglish
          4·
          2 days ago

          I don’t disagree. That’s actually the reason I tend to observe it. I never made accusations against it. But it’s obvious at this point that’s what this is getting made into. And it is my fault after all when I assumed.

        • Serinus@lemmy.worldEnglish
          4·
          2 days ago

          Agreed. You just have to filter through the crap in there.

          It’s a valuable community if you take it with a grain of salt.

    • Unruffled [they/them]@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      4·
      2 days ago

      I don’t know why our instance is being dragged into this post, the DM was from a piefed.social account. If any of our users sent a DM like that they would be instantly home banned from our instance, fwiw.