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So is Lemmy no better than Reddit when it comes to stupid bans?
I will repeat what I have said a million times already - there should be no permanent bans for all but the most egregious of situations. Temp ban someone for 12 hours if they are being rowdy. By the time the ban is over, most people will have moved onto something else and if the person was being a troll, the situation will have already deescalated by then. If they do it again in a rather quick timeframe, ban them for 24 hours.
If you just ban someone permanently - especially for things that should be allowed but maybe the mod got a little butt hurt and overreached their authority - then that user will just get very angry and will probably create a new account and be even more belligerent when they come back. You just created an enemy. Permanent bans only make things worse.
I really hope Lemmy sees how idiotic Reddit-like policies are and thinks to improve them.
Still better I think, but it'll never be perfect and developing policies\code to make it better still will take time.
I agree about permabans, maybe it should take a mod+admin in agreement to permaban.
Maybe, but if Lemmy is anything like Reddit, there are mods who have a chip on their shoulder and want to push an agenda, so it really should be very difficult to ban someone. Maybe they should need an admin too. Or some other level above them to permaban someone.