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
Are you the sole moderator of whatever comm you’re talking about? Maybe you should talk to some of the other people who are active in the community, see if they are interested in helping mod, and decide together what the right course of action is.
Alternatively this is your chance to lay a few ground rules and then point to them when this behavior comes up again. Make it clear that human decency isn’t optional and that you won’t allow others to be trampled on just for a little bit of traffic in the community. This gives whoever may need it a chance to curb that behavior instead of immediately lowering the boom on them, and shows the rest of the community that you aren’t going after people on a personal vendetta.
No but I’ll see about it.
As for your second suggestion; I’m not going to comb through users history, so i cant explicitly nake a rule saying: if you say racist shit in any other community youre banned here too. but I recognize this guy and safe to say he’s a shitty person.
Thanks for the advice too!
you don’t have to investigate everybody, and that would be a ton of work anyway, but if you’re on the fence for a mod action then glancing at how they behave in general could infirm you of a pattern.
The odds of someone only behaving that way in certain communities is probably slim to none. I’d just make sure you have clear rules in place so that if you ever have to take action against those types of people you aren’t immediately put on blast for power tripping or whatever.
No, iirc it was in news comms not topics like privacy. He’d be just as glad being racist if he got the chance to.
Yeah I’d say it’s in the hands of the instance admins at this point.