That wasn’t meant to sound mean, just something that popped up in my head because it was about a birthday.

Eh, well… I can’t really respond to that statement if I don’t know who you are talking about.

I understand that my comment was ambiguous, I tried to say that the current admins, in my experience, don’t enjoy banning people.

I disagree, the account that was banned posted a lot of good content. We are not talking about children 12 year olds, we are talking about people between 16 and 18.

Yea, I agree, and I would personally be for that. But I am not well versed in the law, and don’t have any stake in the legal side of it all except for me liking lemmy.world, so it’s not my decision.

I really hope people understand where we as admins are coming from, we really take no enjoyment out of banning anyone (except for spammers).

Hey, I’m the one that decided to ban this user. I understand the frustration, but it is very much in the TOS of lemmy.world and has been for a long time.

We are having an internal discussion to see if there’s room to lower the age to 16 and if we can make exceptions for federated users.

I hope you see that this really isn’t meant as a powertrip, and we are just trying to protect the Lemmy.world site.

Sorry if I do not respond to comments quickly, it’s late in my timezone.