Comment on How do I identify someone who has deleted their post?
schipelblorp@sh.itjust.works 6 days agoOne of the comments on the post was, “Hey, didn´t you post this a few days ago then delete it?” so this makes me think this guy is a serial offender.
Maybe it should be up to moderators to block them? But how would anyone report? Seems flawed. The system can be too heavily weighted towards control by the user and thereby allow bad actors. There needs to be some form of accountability.
But there's the key. Enough times and someone recognizes the name and actions. It's up to those who did remember who it was to reach out to moderation to take the next steps.
I just prefer protecting the regular user first and letting a few offenders get away with things until they make it obvious who they are. The whole innocent until proven guilty thing. Making it so any user can track down any other user and come after them feels like the wrong side of this.
I get what you're saying, and I kind of agree, but to be honest, I've had this happen so many times that I'll first look where something is posted, if it's (for instance, there are more) asklemmy I'll just not reply at all.
I rarely take note of who I’m writing to, and even if I asked, “is this the same guy?” I couldn’t verify because they´d have deleted their older posts! So I’d be left making blind accusations.
I don’t know what you think you are protecting users from. Blocking someone is not “coming after” them.
Giving moderation abilities to anyone opens up a lot more than just blocking. Err on the side of caution and anonymity is my only position.
It also has potential for an arms race between users who are able to do things past just posting. Even been in an ops war for a channel? Maybe not, that's old IRC stuff.
Giving moderation abilities to anyone opens up a lot more than just blocking.
That’s kind of a radical misreading of what I’m asking for. I’m asking for:
a) the user account of the person who wrote the post that I
b) replied to
so that I can
c) individually block them.
That’s a pretty limited power and whether a) is a “moderator ability” is completely arbitrary.
The other option, often bandied about here, is to merely delete the user name but keep the content up. That would satisfy me because I participated with the expectation that there would be a conversation and that conversation can continue without the user present.
Bougie_Birdie@piefed.blahaj.zone 6 days ago
Was this the one about video games playing it safe?
I wrote a rather detailed reply and it was deleted before I got to post it. Super lame
schipelblorp@sh.itjust.works 6 days ago
I did coincidentally interact with that post.
In retrospect, someone who earnestly asks, “why don’t they just make games so edgy that they are required to region lock the game to prevent the largest markets in the world from buying them?” probably has more than one screw loose.