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c/moderators · by FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 1y

Can I ban someone who'se never commented in the community?

I mod a disability related community (!chronicillness@lemmy.world). And I just ran into a massive ableist in the wild.

Can I ban them from the community preemptively.

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kevin@kitty.ly · 6 pts · 1y (2 replies)

You can do it with tesseract. I have an instance you can use to login to remote ones at https://tesseract.kitty.ly/ to do it.

otter@lemmy.ca · 6 pts · 1y (1 reply)

I'm not familiar with tesseract, but if that's the case then @FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.blahaj.zone you also have the option of https://tes.lemmy.blahaj.zone/

FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 3 pts · 1y

Thanks ❤️ This was the working solution

dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 1y

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.

Samskara@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 1y (1 reply)

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

FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 7 pts · 1y

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.

Cheradenine@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 1y (3 replies)

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.

FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 1 pts · 1y (2 replies)

That can happen when instance banned

Cheradenine@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 1y (1 reply)

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.

Plum@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y

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.