Comment on Is it against the rules of most sites to expose a troll by mentioning an alias they use, even though it's been proven that said troll lies about everything about themselves?

hendrik@palaver.p3x.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

• Joeyowlhouse@lemmy.wtf ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  The troll is a 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”

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  • hendrik@palaver.p3x.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    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 aren't uncommon here... 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.

    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.

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