What is this icon for?
This is the first time I've seen it and I'm not sure what it means. Thanks in advance
This is the first time I've seen it and I'm not sure what it means. Thanks in advance
I think the way it works is that banning just prevents them from making more posts/comments. The admin has to purge the user from the instance to actually remove the content
So yes, purging is an option, but it's a nuclear one. When banning, there's a checkbox to remove content as well. It doesn't purge content or user, but it does become hidden from non admins (mods as well, I assume) across thr lemmyverse.
in my experience it becomes hidden even from admins, at least on the instance it was removed on. i've seen this both on a remote user with remote content and also on a local user with remote content from the admin perspective and in neither case i still see any content on the user's profile.
I just see a Removed by mod next to the post. It very well might be that there's a timeout that wipes the content at some later point.