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?

Can someone elaborate more on what's going on? Did this person actually think that if you posted to a community on a different instance, that they couldn't remove the contents?
- Maybe? The modlog shows they've also been banned from that community.
  Given they're running their own instance, I'm sure they'll be back with a new account, so maybe the admins will block or defederate that instance.
  
  Tiny angry king on a tiny angry little hill LMAO
- When you get reported it goes to the mods of the community, the admins of that server, and the admins of your server. Or so I'm led to believe.
  Perhaps someone intended to report them to that community and didn't know their admins would get it too.
  
  it goes to the mods of the community, the admins of that server, and the admins of your server
  this is correct.
  i know some have suggested a feature change to Lemmy to allow us to chose to which party(s) the reports go to, but in the meantime the limitation precipitates a sort of gentleman’s agreement among admins (or at least admins that want to remain federated) not to abuse the reports that are clearly not for them.
- yes, or at least didn’t care about the consequences of abusing admin responsibility and flaunting federation privileges.

Lol, I just dealt with that user the other day.
Edit: I just checked out that instance and decided to remove a name that I called them in the line above. That instance is a profile of untreated mental illness.

Small instance with respectful moderation staff
Yeah looking at this I'm not so sure about that. Seems like a very big PTB to me.
- To be completely fair... The mods removed the comments. It was the admin that was causing problems 😄
  
  yep that’s why “bastard” is a hierachy-neutral term :P
  
  It was the mods from another instance though, not the ones on his instance. Which is what the sidebar was describing. The instance moderation staff of redlemmy.com are anything but respectful, if this interaction we saw here is any indication.
- where/how did you find that quote? /gen curious
  
  It's from the sidebar on the complaining admins's Instance, redlemmy.com, it's the top line.

interesting combo of YDI, CLM, and PTB (the admin not the mod) here i think

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