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  • Are vegans vegan? Watching mods eat each other brings up weird questions for me.

    • Fuck, sorry, it was a cheat day. (Eating the rich is still vegan tho btw)

      • Obviously truth... The richer they are, the more they appear to have IQs lower than carrots.

        Eat the rich: it's good for the country AND your health!

  • All they did was kick a bunch of mods that were harming a community and trying to create drama without even having the balls to discuss openly the reasons they were banning people. The comments about how a moderator that was there for 3 months should have more power than a moderator that had been there for 11 days (despite one of them not having the wellbeing of the community as a priority) is an amazing joke. https://lemmy.world/post/19731457 everyone should read this post and they will quickly understand after reading op and the comments from people like jerkface why this happened. Posting a modlog without context or explanation is acting in pretty bad faith here.

    Also, as a community (lemmy as a whole) we should think if we want to keep people like Beaver who moderates 100+ communities, there are a lot of people moderating way more than they can chew and becoming really stupid, as also seen recently with the bot drama in news on lemmy world. We really love to be repeating reddits problems.

    • 100+ communities,

      95 of those are inactive.

      There are mods on LW who moderate 10 active communities. Even further, any LW admins can virtually mod all of the LW community.

      also seen recently with the bot drama in news on lemmy world.

      Indeed.

    • I take it that was a swipe at me.

      Sorry you feel that way.

      I don't do as much moderation as my co-mods, and that's by design. All our moderators are active and spread across the globe.

      I just happen to be the face of the community.

      Also, thanks for being civil. You don't want to see the DMs mods got. It was brutal.

  • Poor Jerkface. He's funny. He threatened to block all of my accounts but didn't. I like him. He makes me laugh.

    • Sorry, I did what? "All of my accounts?" Do I know you?

      • Some months ago, maybe a year, you responded to one of my comments with something along the lines of, "How many fucking accounts of yours do I have to block?" I set about responding to the comment from each of my accounts so you could block them all then I got distracted and did something else.

  • The Lemmy/Reddit moderator structure is a failure. Communities should have democratic governance.

    On this specific issue I think everyone involved needs to take a deep breath, step away from the issue for like 24 hours, and talk to each other respectfully to work out how this should be resolved. But that is just my opinion.

    • Communities should have democratic governance.

      I've seen some instances elect their admins. No mod election yet, but that probably happened somewhere.

      To be fair, as a mod myself, the issue is usually to get potential mod candidates in the first place.

      • I wonder what kind of structure they used. I’m also a mod mainly because somebody has to be. But my communities are small and not controversial so I haven’t had to do anything controversial either. It’s mostly that I’m willing to keep an eye on things.

        However, maybe I should walk the walk and start thinking about how that might work in case they grow to the point where more moderation becomes necessary.

    • It would be fantastic to see an automated system, like with X downvotes a post or comment gets hidden, yet all it takes is one extra click to show it so it doesn't mean much.

      However, the Lemmy devs seem strictly pro-authoritarian so I expect to never see that on Lemmy, unless it is developed and shown to work elsewhere and becomes too popular to ignore. i.e. the power-tripping gods people in charge is baked right in as a feature, not a bug (it would seem).

      But... maybe in Piefed, Sublinks, Mbin, or something else?

  • He ain't even done yet.

    • Good, it seems he's done much more for that community than Beaver, her alts, and you (assuming you're not also an alt) have done for it. Generally making toxic and antagonistic memes all day and attacking the instance moderation are not healthy and productive things for a community. It also doesn't help the movement at all, and actually can end up hurting it.

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