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How to ban a user from my community (piefed.social)

submitted 3 months ago by BaldProphet@piefed.social to c/piefed_meta@piefed.social

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I'm not even sure if this is implemented, but I would like to ban a user from my community. They are not a local account, they're on a federated Lemmy instance. Is this something I can do as a moderator, and if so, how do I do it?

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[–] freamon@preferred.social 7 points 3 months ago (5 children)

If they've made a post, there's an option to ban them in the 3-dots drop-down menu. If not, you should be able to find them in the 'subscribers' tab of the community settings ('ban' is in the Actions drop-down). If they've not made a post and they're not a subscriber, then I'm not sure.

[–] BaldProphet@piefed.social 3 points 3 months ago (3 children)

They have only commented and don't seem to be a subscriber.

Related topic: Having to click through page after page to find a subscriber in the subscriber list is clunky as hell. I'd like to see a search feature there.

[–] freamon@preferred.social 4 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Rimu has now added the option to ban users via the drop-down menu next to their comment.

It's maybe not a good idea to make it too easy to ban people who haven't created any content, as it's the kind of thing that often causes a lot of boring fedi-drama. Though I realise that there still might be other reasons why mods might want to search through the subscriber list.

[–] keepthepace@slrpnk.net 2 points 3 months ago

I can see a scenario:

troll1@trollinstance posting in trollinginstance/c/raids: "Hey, let's raid these losers over otherinstance/c/safespace"
troll2@trollinstance "Hell yeah!"

I could see admins at /c/safespace wanting to preemptively ban them.

[–] BaldProphet@piefed.social 1 points 3 months ago

It's definitely tricky. When a community gets large and busy enough, though, that will probably be a worthwhile risk.

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