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Maybe. Even if someone is banned, I still care about their privacy, and I would not want to disclose that they were banned. Providing this information also provides useful feedback to malicious actors like spammers, who are ordinarily banned in a means which makes it difficult for them to tell when an account is burned.

SourceHut is not a social network and does not have particularly arduous moderation needs. It's vanishingly rare for us to ban someone at all for this reason. We additionally provide banned users with a complete data export and tools to re-import that data into other SourceHut instances or instances using compatible software, so they are not left without options.

If someone feels slighted by moderation on SourceHut, I would invite them to speak publicly about it. I'm prepared to justify our actions in the court of public opinion with consent from the maligned.



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