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.
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.
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/
Thanks ❤️ This was the working solution
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.
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.
Mods do similar bans all the time. How you mod your community is up to you.
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.