That would require them to be a victim. They targeted the moderator in order to bait the response.

Calling out harassement and mobbing is not vicitm blaming, its actually quite the opposite. You should revise your rules for situations where its pretty clear that OP uses communities such as this and YPTB to further harrass their victims. Otherwise your community will filled with posts of people getting justified limits on their fediverse access based on their harassement and it will devalue every post that even has remotely to do with mod abuse.

Hosting harassement in a supposedly safe space is also pretty unsafe, because it makes this community unsafe for atleast the victims of OPs harassment.