Making a genuine effort here to make this post within the rules of this community. I notice there is no qualifier for meta-posts; mods I’d love if you could just let me know to take this down rather than ban me. :)
Pretty much what is in the image.
- I appreciate the effort and values behind responding to reports with the reason.
- But I don’t appreciate how the responses, especially to trolls, give them bait to double down in their offensive rhetoric.
- .world already has an @AutoMod@lemmy.world which DMs users with the reasons for mod action on their content.
- About half the time this mod will also continue to engage with the trolling user.
- Lemmy doesn’t allow unflaired mod comments as of now so this just proves to add more fuel to the flames and make this community more toxic than it was without this action.
- I recognize this will be an unpopular post, and believe me, again, I appreciate the effort put into informing us why things are removed.
- But please consider stopping, or at least doing it in a way which doesn’t amplify trolling.
- This also goes for other communities @jordanlund@lemmy.world moderates but this is the primary source of the issue.
- Thank you with peace and love.
There’s been rather public infighting on lemmy.world based on the previously pinned posts on this community.
A moderator on this community (@MightBe) collected community feedback on a post (https://lemmy.world/post/10102462) because of discontent with how the community was being run. The other moderators were unhappy with that mod, so they removed him, removed the post, and pinned this post instead: https://lemmy.world/post/10656753
I’m not sure what’s going on in private, but publicly there’s been a lot of drama. It’s also been revealed that some members of the current group of moderators have been rather unprofessional imo. I’m quoting from a previous comment:
Some mods have also been deleting comments that add context to mod abuse. @naturalgasbad gave me the full DM context for their “bad faith argument” with a moderator (they did not specify which one), which I posted in a comment in the other pinned thread. It’s a rather childish escalation sequence imo. That comment was deleted for “violating Rule 6”, but I have copied it below for the record:
For the record, naturalgasbad sent me their exchange with the moderator, which stemmed from the moderator in question removing SCMP articles due to “SCMP not meeting reliability guidelines.”
@moderator:
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(for reference, the Daily Telegraph is also “mixed due to poor sourcing” and Kyiv Post is “mixed due to failed fact checks”)
@naturalgasbad:
It’s also reflecting the problem of a US-based bias assessment > website: it suggests that ideas within the US Overton window are “correct” will those shared by the Global South are “less correct.”
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@naturalgasbad
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Very concerning if true, though unless this is regarding the mod OP mentioned, this is not the exact issue at hand.
In my opinion, the mod structure established by Reddit and perpetuated by Lemmy is extremely flawed and will inevitably lead to abuses like this. This is the predictable result of all governance structures that lack democratic oversight. Exactly what the best oversight would look like I do not know but I hope there will be experimentation in this vein in the future. Until such time, I doubt this issue will be resolved very successfully.
I can neither confirm nor deny, but the moderator in question is still on the active mod team.
Fuck, that’s infuriating. Is there any way to get them off the mod team?
Unlikely