A troll (https://lemm.ee/u/shinigamiookamiryuu) is a new moderator of AskLemmy on Lemmy.world. They recently trolled about how Elon Musk's Nazi salute "has been debunked". What can be done about this?
Hello. I wasn't sure where to post about this and a friend directed me here. This is about AskLemmy on the Lemmy.world instance's newly appointed mod, shinigamiookamiryuu.
When people give evidence of those reprehensible things in the form of direct links, they will call it "slander". When this fails to work, they then try to gaslight everyone by saying "you're taking it out of context" "you cannot speak for my intentions" , hoping people fall for it. This is a very common tactic they've used for years. Don't fall for it.
They paint themselves as a targeted victim, hoping people (including mods/admins) take their word for it and don't look into the links that got posted.
Here's a screenshot of them telling a trans person to "do what the person in Nashville did". They are referring to the Nashville school shooter, Aiden Hale, who was trans. They also called them a Japanese slur that is equivalent to the f-word
Here's them trolling about how Elon Musk's Nazi salute "has been debunked though" and then trolling people once those people proved them wrong by gaslighting them about how "you can't speak for other people's intentions!".
They like to portray themselves as an innocent person who is "being targeted for no reason" hoping that mods and admins who are unaware of their history take their word for it without looking into things. They will claim to mods/admins that they're being doxed because their alias, which the troll publicly posts everywhere, was mentioned in posts exposing them. They do this because they want people who point out what they're doing to be banned, not because they're actually concerned about doxing. Please bear in mind that this user has been caught using an AI generated voice trying to pass it off as their own and they have been permabanned from Discord servers for making up excuses when asked by mods to prove they are who they say they are. They are using a fake internet persona.
Another thing this user will do is sign up on websites using the exact usernames of the people who originally exposed them on DeviantArt and then, once called out for this, will troll about being "inspired" by those usernames, omitting the fact they've 1. done this dozens of times 2. they only steal the usernames of the people who exposed them on DeviantArt. They'll also list their country on the impersonation accounts as being from the country of the person they're impersonating, among other things, like pretending to have DID on an account that's named after a person on DeviantArt who actually has DID and then manipulate people by claiming people calling them out on this are "denying DID exists".
They report any posts that aren't on their side, claiming they're being doxed because the poster used their alias, an alias they publicly use throughout the internet, and are known for faking many aspects of their persona online.
I apologize for the lengthy post, but is it appropriate for such a person to be a mod on AskLemmy, which is a popular community, given their actions both on Lemmy and off-site?
edit: They're now in this thread saying Elon Musk's Nazi salute was debunked and are comparing it to Pokemon.Link
Thanks for the information, I’ve decided to block this user based on the evidence. Hopefully the rest of the mods of that community will take that into consideration when judging whether that user can serve the community effectively as a moderator
Hey Lemm.ee admins just wanted to ping you to let you know that there's seemingly a person on your instance acting as a mod in communities and using their mod abilities to promote Nazi apologia. Just thought you guys should know this because they are a member of your server.
OP I recommend trying to contact Lemmy.world's admins about this in the Matrix chat, maybe possibly reporting it in the Spam defense channel, since this user is essentially promoting neonazi apologia.
First, I'm generally not following around people on YouTube and DeviantArt and random archive / link shorteners to gather evidence to ban people on Lemmy. I was not pleased when I clicked on the "evidence" and it took me to YouTube.
Second, while I was very near ready to ban based on the denial of Musk's Nazi salute, it does seem like they're just horribly wrong. Maybe a bit of sealioning on this issue. I'd advise shin to avoid going further down this path, and hopefully you were just blatantly ignorant of the evidence others have provided (AfD, etc.)
I'm open to revisiting in the future, particularly if they abuse their power as mod.
It appears to me that he's only arguing against the obvious nazi salute, but I don't seem to identify a pattern here. It's a bit thinly veiled evidence in my opinion.
Everyone should have the right to be blatantly wrong on some issues as long as it doesnt affect moderation. And since mod logs are public, why dont we wait on real evidence that shows he's unsuited to be a moderator?
Im willing to be wrong myself here.
As I see it, if he's a Neonazi and can Act freely in his moderation decisions according to his ideology, the whole mod team would be compromised.
So far it looks like a with hunt based on one single issue and a ban on a pokemon forum.
Edit: Usually the Nazis try to keep a clean unidentifiable profile when they try to sneak into mod positions.
Well. I raised this exact question months ago as a hypothetical. I was trying to learn how lemmy works, and despite my arguements that this is a stupid recoarse, here is what I was told.
Upon a troll taking power as a mod of a popular community, the fediverse won't be affected, because you can just make a NEW community, and everyone will go there!
Alright lemmy users who aren't part of THIS thread, but I still remember from 8 months ago.......this is your time to shine! Go make new communities and show us all how your ways are realistic in real world scenarios.....and not just, ya know, group jerking the group about unrealistic concepts and thus not a real solution.
And again, to op and others in this thread, I want to remind you that I'm not being snarky to you. I'm being snarky to those people 8 months ago who argued this exact scenario.
They claimed the solution is to make AskLemmy2, everybody leave AskLemmy, and now the troll is a mod of a dead community. So yeah, I'm going to be snarky. I knew that was a stupid response to this situation.
I reported that tool to another mod in AskLemmy, got nowhere. Same mod you mention posted an AskLemmy question, I commented, he removed my up voted comment and then deleted his down voted, nonsensical one. I asked why and he was super weird. I've had maybe 1 comment removed by a mod in 15 years of reddit and 1 of Lemmy.
It's a bad look for Lemmy, get rid of the dumbass.
So as a word to all those who are onlookers here and are wondering what's going on, this is the second person so far who has tried to participate in the same mass slander of me, as has been happening around the web. I figured this might happen, which is why I can redirect to my complete perspective, which proves the original asker/poster wrong. Ironically, the one thing they're consistently right about are their words "don't believe everything you hear", which also applies to things that seem convincing enough not to consult both sides.