I mod a disability related community ([email protected]). And I just ran into a massive ableist in the wild.

Can I ban them from the community preemptively.

  • dual_sport_dork 🐧🗡️@lemmy.world
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    13 hours ago

    It’s technically possible but I can’t find a way to do it through the default web UI. The Lemmy API supports it, and using it you can point blank ban a user by user ID and community ID, even if they have not posted. You probably have to use a third party client to do so and I don’t know which one since I don’t use any of them (I am a desktop only nerd). You could probably also hand-craft the appropriate POST request if you really wanted to, but that sounds like work.

    And Lemmy.ml appears to have a page with a web form on it that exposes the API hook for their instance, for example. I don’t know if Lemmy.world does, but I can’t find it so I suspect they don’t.

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    13 hours ago

    I’m not a mod but… I have been banned from 7 different communities I never knew existed, much less commented in. Seems like it’s possible.

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        13 hours ago

        Yes, but there’s nothing in the modlog I could find, and I don’t seem to be banned from all their shitty communities. As far as I know I never had any interaction with them, or the instance.

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          11 hours ago

          They might be defederated from your instance. I thought the vegan theory club hated me personally, but they just hate my instance. Which I’m fine with. But I do miss the recipes.

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    13 hours ago

    Mods do similar bans all the time. How you mod your community is up to you.

    • FundMECFS@lemmy.blahaj.zoneOP
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      I’m not asking whether I should do it, but if it’s physically possible in lemmy, since the only ban button I can find is in comments and posts n my community.