power tripping admin thinks hosting their own instance grants them immunity. embarrassing!

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yeah, need more input than those two screenshots.
what was the context? Did you had a run in with the mod before?
- admin @stinky of redlemmy.com (tiny instance with <10 users) gets in an argument. they run the instance so they are “in charge” of that small part of the fediverse but they let that tiny power go to their head.
  other user is uncomfortable and reports admin
  in the current version of Lemmy, all reports go to both instance admins and the local community mods
  the user @stinky was harrassing obviously primarily intended the report to he seen by local community mods, which it was, but it also went to redlemmy.com admins, which happens to include @stinky themself.
  admin sees the report and harrasses the other user for it (in the comments shown in the post)
  local mods (correctly) remove the power tripping admin as shown in the modlog
  Did you had a run in with the mod before?
  i’m not involved in this, purely an outside observer
  
  well, that username certainly checks out.
- More input. Just strange. I blew it off and moved on but if the same thing is happening to others even more aggressively then that's not okay
  
  I erroneously reported one of his posts in a community on his instance and after I did not respond to his pm he stalked me to another community to harass me.
  
  yeah that mod is certainly power tripping. Also that interaction is just weird.
  
  I can't navigate away from redlemmy with just a backspace, I have to go to my search history and hop. I've seen similar behavior on ad supported sites. Is that a bug with mozilla or are they sticking a little redirect in front of traffic?
  
  Dunno, I only use the Voyager app on my phone. Wouldn't shock me if there was a redirect though
  
  Pretty scummy if it's intentional. Also a way to log traffic, especially IPs, and inject cookies.

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