What kind of monster posts TIL posts in a TIL community?

That happened on reddit all the time, minus the instance part. Remember /r/freefolk?

The "instance part" is absolutely huge. If I wanted to, I could go start a /c/lemmyshitpost on SDF Lemmy [1] with a completely new set of rules [2], particularly a set of rules that possibly would violate Lemmy.world's TOS or possibly even the law in Lemmy.world's jurisdiction, but not SDF's or their jurisdiction's laws.

It's not a big deal for the average user until the day you run afoul of the server admins.

[1] As of writing this, SDF does not have a /c/lemmyshitpost.

[2] I'm not interested in doing that lol, this is just a hypothetical. I'm annoyed at this most recent decision but nowhere near ready to leave over it.

No just one user lol

I think moderating comments needs to be banished.

Nah because then someone could just post (for example) medical gore in a "safe space" and it'll just get downvoted but not removed.

It wasn't gore, but do you remember the ThuleanPerspective (I think?) trolls from a little while back, spamming that racist photoshopped Simpsons comic by commenting it on literally everything? That effort was neutralized in the short term by deleting those comments on the spot, and then the users who posted them.

It is absolutely a useful tool, but like most useful tools it can be abused.

I'm happy and having lots of sex /s

In Internet culture, shitposting or trashposting is the act of using an online forum or social media page to post content that is of "aggressively, ironically, and trollishly poor quality".

Imagine not being allowed to do any trolling in a shitposting community.

With just the information provided, not weird at all. Good luck with your program 🙂.

Okay but you can always make your own shitposting community on your own instance with your own rules if you feel so strongly against the rules. That option simply was not available on R*ddit. The point of Lemmy isn't that no one abuses their mod and admin powers ever, but that the system is set up so that you can just go to another Lemmy server, which simply was not available on R*ddit if you pissed off the site admins.

Although I personally find Lemmy users nicer and moderation better on average, their character is not the point. It is merely the result of an imperfect but better system than R*ddit.

1. Then the mods should be honest about why he's being banned in the modlog.
2. Him (charitably) being an overzealous meanie in defense of an honest brand of feminism does not make him a shitlord.
3. Sometimes people need to be dunked on for both their own good and the good of the community, obviously myself included. A perfectly appropriate venue for some gentle dunking is a shitposting community.

It's a shame that the thread got locked. It was getting heated, but IMO that's a good sign that what you're talking about actually needs to be debated.

reason: Admitting to being a troll: "I'm an agent of chaos."

Absolutely the limpest reason to temp ban someone from a shitposting community. From the context it was obviously an offhanded joke, not an actual admission of someone trying to disrupt the community.

By Betteridge's law, the answer is no.

On a serious note, to the people who own these kinds of websites: find a more ethical way to make your money or go the fuck out of business.