Edit: I’ve gone and done it. This won’t be a common occurrence but I think it is necessary for some users. Hopefully this won’t bite me in the ass lmao. Thanks for helping everyone!

Hey everyone. On privacy I generally recognize a lot of people, most are good. But occasionally I encounter someone who I’ve seen say horrible shit. This is about one:

Mainly they’ve said some incredibly racist shit, including about my race >:(. Of course I’d ban them, but they said all of this outside the community. I feel it’s odd to ban people I don’t like for their behavior outside the community.

I’ve gone pretty lax modding, only banning if you said really shitty stuff only on my community. But I don’t want to build a community filled with these types of people.

I also don’t want the community to have a bad reputation of banning people I don’t like but this guys a known racist.

I’m feeling very conflicted, can anyone help?

PS: the things he said was about Arabs being murderers and rapists. And some racism to Slavs too

  • fxomt@lemm.eeOP
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    7 hours ago

    I mean here. Tbf opinions are mostly mixed and more in general the idea of someone being banned for behavior outside. I tolerate r lot of people in that community but this guy seems too far.

    I also failed to mention what he said and just said he’s racist so I’ll edit it

    • SexUnderSocialism [she/her]@hexbear.net
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      7 hours ago

      Why should it matter if the thing was said outside of the community? If they’re a racist, there’s a big chance they’ll say something racist in your own community at some point. Wouldn’t you want to protect your users (especially minorities) from such a possibility? What’s the benefit of having a racist shithead in your community? There is no downside to banning them. At some point you have to draw a line in the sand, or else bad actors will take advantage of this.

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        7 hours ago

        You’re probably right. I think I’m just going to ban him.