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
That’s what I wanted to do but it seems most have a negative view of this, and obviously if most see a policy they don’t like in a community they’ll just leave.
To put in perspective this guy said Arabs rape and murder. I myself am an Arab so I am less than happy at that.
If the majority of people are opposed to racists getting banned, then you’ve got a bigger problem in your community than just a single racist.
I mean here. Tbf opinions are mostly mixed and more in general the idea of someone being banned for behavior outside. I tolerate r lot of people in that community but this guy seems too far.
I also failed to mention what he said and just said he’s racist so I’ll edit it
Why should it matter if the thing was said outside of the community? If they’re a racist, there’s a big chance they’ll say something racist in your own community at some point. Wouldn’t you want to protect your users (especially minorities) from such a possibility? What’s the benefit of having a racist shithead in your community? There is no downside to banning them. At some point you have to draw a line in the sand, or else bad actors will take advantage of this.
You’re probably right. I think I’m just going to ban him.