For instance, let’s say there’s a troll who is infamous online to the point multiple people are chronicling the troll’s numerous antics.
The troll in question lies about everything about themselves. Their name is an alias, they admitted to using an AI generated voice while trying to get away with passing it off as their own. They steal women’s selfies to pretend to be another person. This is just a few examples, but this troll has gotten posts exposing them taken down because the posts reveal personal information, but if the personal information is fake to begin with, is that against the rules on most sites?
Edit: assuming all the info came from the troll’s posts, that is publicly available.
Depends. Do you like vigilantism? Then go ahead. If not, try reporting it to the moderators first.
But idk what this is about. Is it some teenage drama concerning someone with 20 followers on TikTok? I mean having several accounts and using voice changers and AI isn’t illegal. If they’re stealing pictures or molesting people on Minecraft or Roblox, you might be able to get them banned by reporting them. And if they’re lying here on Lemmy… We also have moderators. I’m not sure if we have tools to detect ban evasion.
vigilantism??? its the internet with a bunch of fake names. dealers choice to me. I agree though its just stupid stuff to me.
Well, there’s a lot of drama, he-said-she-sad, personal attacks. I think the sane approach is let moderators deal with it. And not create a toxic atmosphere by having users target each other and start all sorts of small and big fights. That’s what I meant by that.
The troll is a new mod of AskLemmy on Lemmy.world, and they locked their own thread after they trolled about Elon Musk’s Nazi salute having “been debunked though” and then gaslighting commenters about how “you can’t speak for other’s intentions”
They raised a big stink about being featured on Ye Power Trippin’ Bastards
I think people wig out about the power of mods. If a mod makes a community suck, which it will with such stuff, then folks with go elsewhere. then folks will complain echo chamber but its like hey man yeah places and who runs them will determing how broad their appeal is.
Thanks for the clarification. Yeah, I sometimes can’t differentiate between our drama here, and some 8 year olds. I’m not sure. I’d say things like power abuse, or harassing or attacking other users counts as bad. The Musk example is just them proving to be an idiot. But idiots are allowed here, we have a lot of them… I dunno. Thanks for raising awareness. I don’t think it’s that bad but I’m not reading through it all at this point. So I might be wrong.
Concerning your initial question (and now that I know a bit more detail)… I think it’d still be wrong to doxx them. Like publish their real name. But if they have an alt account, and you see them using that to do bad things… I’d say it’s okay to call them out on that. Mainly since they’re a high profile person here, wield power in one of the largest communities. So they have to abide by higher standards. But you can’t leak their IP address or real name or something for just being a liar, that’s just too much and a different level.
“Exposing” them might be alright. But gather some proper examples of misbehaviour. And make sure to keep reporting misbehaving users to other mods, if possible.