This dude posts a wildly racist meme of Michelle Obama. I report the post. Funnily enough, the racist post is posted by the mod of dankmemes, dankchristianmemes and some other shit hole.
Said mod then starts sending abusive transphobic messages to me. Try to report the user. Nothing happens when I hit the button.
Shit like this is why Lemmy isn’t a viable alternative yet. We need to do better and be better.
Lemmy and Kbin have both seen a huge influx of people in the past few weeks, so admins of each instance are struggling to keep up. For the most part, the admins are working for free, in addition to whatever their day jobs are.
Having said that, I’d report those magazines / communities to the admin of the instance for action, understanding that right now, they’re buried in requests, questions, and complaints. If the issue is an entire instance, well, defederation is an option.
FWIW, I was threatened on Reddit more than once with actual murder… people threatening to come to my house and kill me. Reddit’s general response was to… delete the chat message in question as a “resolution” to my complaint. AFAIK, that was the extent of their action. I at least have the impression that abusive users will be removed, though it might take a bit given the incredible influx of new users.
I am sorry that they’re harassing you though. Noting to block those magazines / communities.
A homophobe told me that he’d rather die than respect everyone’s right to be safe and unabused in public. I told him I didn’t believe him, why doesn’t he show us. I got permabanned, he’s still spreading hate.
Lovely 😐
FWIW, I was threatened on Reddit more than once with actual murder… people threatening to come to my house and kill me. Reddit’s general response was to… delete the chat message in question as a “resolution” to my complaint. AFAIK, that was the extent of their action. I at least have the impression that abusive users will be removed, though it might take a bit given the incredible influx of new users.
This is horrible, why do people think they can say this shit? I hope you reported this to the police? I’m pretty much most places this behaviour is illegal. It’s not a good look for Reddit to be complacent with illegal activity on their site.
Edit: massive typos
It’s all good! Not that the guy would have had an easy time finding me; I’m not inclined to share my “real life” info online and I rarely use the same username / contact info on more than one site. Heck, as I note… I’m probably just an incredibly advanced AI anyway. Bleep bloop.
I don’t fear them. Let 'em come!
P Sherman
42 Wallaby Way
SydneyA French guy was stabbed to death once after a guy he beat in counter-strike was able to track him down.
Possible and tragic, but that’s the address of the dentist in Finding Nemo. And I suck at counter strike. And I’m not French.
The question is, is it real? Or are addresses in movies fake and cannot be traced to real places, like the 555 phone numbers?
Google said it’s fake. I guess the producers wouldn’t have picked a real address. Or at least not a real address of a person. Police station would be a good pick.
This is explicitly why I avoid mixing my gaming/forums/Discord accounts with my IRL/social media accounts. People out there are lunatics.
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I had a similar experience, but their response was better. I had been talking on a certain sub for months (an illness support sub…) and there was one user who was prominently abrasive. Actually an odd mixture of acting tough mixed with seeming very sensitive, so I suppose basically a bully. We didn’t get along great. He liked giving factually incorrect advice mixed with telling us all we were “weak pussies” for being concerned about illness. I don’t remember all the details, but at some point he started blatantly using alternate accounts to support his viewpoints and harass people. I called him out on that and he was angry about it, and started saying things like “I’ll be in Portland next week, maybe I’ll come pay you a little visit” and “you’d better watch for me, I’ll be seeing you soon”. Reddit admins did remove his main account along with the 2-3 others he was using.
They think they can say this shit because they obviously can. There are no consequences.
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Yeah, as @melpone says it will just take time for admins to respond if you message them directly. I know Lemmy.world doesn’t tolerate people like this. This is from the lemmy/mastodon.world Code of Conduct:Provide a friendly, safe, and welcoming environment for everyone regardless of gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, disability, personal appearance, body size, race, ethnicity, age, religion, nationality, political affiliation, or other similar characteristic.
Instances generally need more moderators but I understand the need to screen for good / bad candidates too. We also need a way to communicate bad actors across instances easily, which does not yet seem to be a thing. Maybe I’m wrong though; I’m not moderating anything.
Hello everyone. This is Michelle, one of the Lemmy.world Admins/Moderators.
I want to let you know that if you are reporting a post/comment from a community moderator, please message me and let me know your concern. Especially if it relates to the violation of server rules for hate speech, racism, threats, or calls to violence.
If it’s a Lemmy.world community, they can resolve the report before we have a chance to see it. So please let me know if no action is being taken.
If the community is on another instance, we can see the reports you submit. We can ban and remove the posts/comments from our side.
We have zero tolerance for homophobia, racism, hate speech, bullying, child pornography, and many others that are listed under our server rules.
The moderation tools we currently have are not very robust, but I hope this helps clarify what can be done to escalate issues.
👏 Amazing 👏, please ban this
fisuxcelbigot
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That guy is on exploding-heads.com which is full of alt right chuds so I’m not surprised.
Try PMing the admin. This is a smaller scale, non profit network, you can’t expect moderation to be as fast as in a major platform (yet).
But I’m sure they’ll be willing to deal with it.I think db0 is working on some sort of collective rating for instances, maybe that could be extended to users, but I’m no sure how much good it would do, and if it wouldn’t be abused.
This is why huge instances are not a good idea, the shitstain will likely be booted out when the overworked admins get to the complaint but will take time, if the instance was smaller it would have been done already but big instances need lots of work
I can’t tell which instance they’re on, but if you report something to admins, it’s reported to your local server admin. If they’re on a different server, the absolute best your admin can do is contact the other user’s admin to forward the report and block the instance. The more likely outcome is that they block the other user from your server.
I don’t know how responsive the admin of LW is, but it seems to be a site that’s prioritizing growth and “openness”, but, as far as I’m concerned, the real value of this space is in smaller servers and smaller communities, with federation just giving access to occasional trips to “big city” sites. Smaller sites usually have more responsive admins and are quicker to cut off bad actors because they care more about community health than unlimited growth and access.
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Browsed that instance a bit, they do seem to attract a particular type.
I got arrased by both users and moderators in reddit, at r/Europe, nada all I got from Reddit admins was autoresponses of “Reported content doesn’t constitute a violation of Reddit Rules”.
I see Lemmy.world working much better than reddit seeing this post.
And then Reddit would suspsend you for literally everything lol not the racist
