User banned by instance mod shows "Banned by moderator" on mine.
I saw that a user was banned by moderator on my instance and their comments removed. I don't have a moderator, it's just me, I'm the only user. I thought I accidently fumble fingrred the ban button and restored their comments and appologize. Come to find out that they were banned from their own instance.
I'm not sure how I feel about that. On one hand it's good if it's a really bad user posting spam or worse. On the other hand it is a conduit for censorship. If an admin doesn't like what you post on another instance, then they can censor you everywhere. On top of that, it makes it look like I am banning people, and I don't like that at all if they're just making normal comments. It should say something else and I should get some kind of alert that lets me know so that I can decide if the comments on my instance are appropriate.
You would have to think of the user and the comm they post on separately. If a user is prone to spam/trolling then the home instance has every right to not host them, which would then have the knock on effect that they vanish from other places because that user no longer exists. It could be that the home instance got several reports saying the person was an issue.
Yeah the message is misleading, it always says "mod".
But admins are responsible for their users, no matter where they post. If they're spamming, shouldn't their home instance admin ban their whole account, instead of every other instance having to ban them individually?
I agree that their comments should be deleted automatically, however I did not like the message their comments were replaced with because it implies I banned them. It would also be nice if moderators and admin of other instances could at least be notified. If the user has written a really useful answer to a question or a how to guide then that could disappear forever. Someone else in this thread stated that the comments should be deleted forever. I really don't like the idea of someone having the ability to delete things completely off of my server.