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.
Got it, thanks. So FS had an extended argument with two people with a certain amount of embitteredness on both sides of the argument, in a community he moderates, and then at some point in this extended argument, he mentioned in passing that the person he was talking to seemed like a habitual rule-breaker, also.
I can’t find the user anymore, which usually means their account was deleted at the home instance, right?
https://biglemmowski.win/u/Timii
Am I wrong about that? That kind of makes it sound like FS might have had a point about how that person was talking in bad faith in that particular argument, and also in some of their other on-Lemmy conduct. Right?
I stand by my assessment. Maybe you could say there’s no point in FS getting in that long and fairly pointless argument with two separate people, but I don’t think his POV in the argument was wrong, and there’s absolutely nothing of PTB anywhere in there. If this is some of the best example you can find going back through six months of heavy Lemmy participation and moderation, I have no idea why anyone thinks FS is “insane” or needs their moderator abilities taken away. IDK, I haven’t looked into the recent stuff so maybe they are unstable and it’s better if they’re not in authority, but still not a PTB in my opinion.
He literally says out loud he went through a users comment history looking for ammunition.
Wait.
Why on earth does this complaint not apply to you digging through FlyingSquid’s history to find something he said to someone six months ago, and telling other people he is insane and needs to be IP-banned and all his content removed, because of, for example, that thing he said to that one user six months ago?
lul. You asked for proof. I supplied it. That’s the difference. I have actual reasons to say what I say. You support him blindly just because ?
Which seems reasonable to assess whether the user is a troll or bad faith actor
Whatever. Ya’ll proving my point. He has a cabal of users that make excuses and gave him tons of leeway and support when he clearly doesn’t deserve it. Those users experience are just what I found quickly. I’ve seen numerous arguments where he ends it with mod action. Him claiming there’s a good reason for it is BS when it is clearly his MO: argue with people and ban on loss.
Regardless. He’s … gone… World News et al are def going to be better for it.
Ding ding ding lol
It’s like “how DARE you be doing moderation of users when you are a MODERATOR, and having disagreements with people, the shame.”
I do that too, in a freelance capacity, although I’ve also been accused of that being a terrible thing to do. But it honestly makes perfect sense to me. If I’ve been arguing with someone who is insisting that trans men are women and not just that but being totally weird about their conduct of the conversation, I will yes start to wonder after a certain point what their deal even is, and look into it.
