Following News, I made a change to the “no trolling” rule in Politics and World (rule 4 for Politics, 5 for World)
“Similarly, if you see posts along these lines, do not engage. Report them, block them, and live a happier life than they do. We see too many slapfights that boil down to “Mom! He’s bugging me!” and “I’m not touching you!” Going forward, slapfights will result in removed comments and temp bans to cool off.”
Because they walked a fine line. Bans don’t happen on presumptions.
You can’t blame the community here for being kind of frustrated with this response. Many people reported trolling behavior for a long time before that ban finally happened. If the things I reported them for myself aren’t trolling then I don’t know would qualify as trolling.
Several other instances banned UM for trolling long before .world did. Because it wasn’t unclear.
The best we can we do is watch and look for an excuse!
An excuse NOT to ban them? That seemed to be the process. And now you’ve told us to just report and block them.
If hundreds of reports did nothing for weeks about the most obvious troll I’ve ever seen, I have no faith at all that reporting and blocking trolls will help the fediverse in the least. They will be free to run their election interference campaigns just like on Facebook.
I know modding isn’t easy but Jesus this case surely was. No fucking way anyone believed he wasn’t a troll if they actually looked at their activity.
No, an excuse TO ban them. Bans happen for cause and it took a long time for the cause to be evident.
If I were capricious as you want me to be, I’d ban you for arguing with me, but that’s not going to get anyone anywhere.
Wow okay.