I cannot repost what Flying Squid was posting here, because it involved highly disturbing and dangerous content, including:

Content Warning

Graphic content, harassment, self-harm, and suicidal ideation, which I reported immediately.

While this behavior is shocking, it’s not completely out of left field, as members of this community and platform will already be familiar with their behavior. Flying Squid has long been regarded as one of the least productive and most problematic mods on all of Lemmy, often picking fights and abusing their mod privileges. I view this change as a positive step for Squid, .world, and Lemmy as a whole.

    • PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat
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      5 hours ago

      What, return2ozma, the precursor to UniversalMonk? That’s the PTB is that FlyingSquid banned him?

      He’s calmed down recently, but he used to be pretty spammy and unapologetic about it. He was finally banned “officially” because he basically said that he was seeking out specifically anti-Biden stuff and posting a steady stream of it to make sure that side of the story got some heavy airtime on Lemmy, as if there was a shortage of it. I’m not convinced that that should be the final straw in terms of handing someone a ban, but there was broad agreement from the mod team that he should be banned.

      It also, as far as I can tell, wasn’t FlyingSquid that banned him. Unless it was from an alt used for admin, or something?

      https://lemmy.world/modlog?page=1&actionType=ModBanFromCommunity&modId=477305&userId=580006

      Edit: Update: Here’s all the actions that FS took against return2ozma. Looks pretty legit to me.

      https://lemmy.world/modlog?page=1&modId=477305&userId=580006

      • Blaze (he/him)@feddit.orgEnglish
        1·
        5 hours ago

        He’s calmed down recently, but he used to be pretty spammy and unapologetic about it. He was finally banned “officially” because he basically said that he was seeking out specifically anti-Biden stuff and posting a steady stream of it to make sure that side of the story got some heavy airtime on Lemmy, as if there was a shortage of it.

        TIL, then I’m surprised he didn’t get banned earlier.

        It also, as far as I can tell, wasn’t FlyingSquid that banned him. Unless it was from an alt used for admin, or something?

        Wait, aren’t bans impossible to trace to the mod who did them? I remember this being something to avoid mod harassment

        • PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat
          2·
          5 hours ago

          TIL, then I’m surprised he didn’t get banned earlier.

          Yeah, Jordan made a whole specific post explaining about the ban, it was that big an issue. That’s why I called him the precursor. He was stumping for third parties and flooding various channels with reasons why Biden is the worst, every single day, and they let him do it for quite a while before eventually taking action on it.