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.
He literally says out loud he went through a users comment history looking for ammunition.
do you know who you’re talking to?
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 ?
Oh, I think it’s entirely reasonable to look through someone’s history and find stuff that gives context about their behavior, and fair game to bring up examples if people are talking about them, so that people can reference objective things which may or may not justify the conclusions or personal attacks that are being made about that person. I’m just saying that it sounds like you don’t think it should be allowed, apparently, except when you do it.
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.
Then just show them. Seriously. The closest I got was this example, but in this case the other user is indeed trolling, so it’s not even power tripping.
Edit: https://lemmy.world/comment/14488436
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.