Not trying to start anything, and if this is the wrong place to post about it I apologize, I’m not sure where else to broach the topic, but as a user I’ve noticed an enormous increase is moderator action today and I’m curious if there was some catalyst that the userbase should be aware of. Prior to today, the modlog shows only a few mod actions most days, and previous entire months can fit within one screenview. Furthermore, most of those actions were locking posts or removing and reprimanding specific offending comments. Yet today there is an entire wave of moderator actions, including such vague notes as “Troll Post” on meme posts with significant engagement.
I promise I’m not trying to start drama, I am just concerned as I love Lemmy and want to see it and the community thrive, and I am concerned about the same issues that plague Reddit could potentially find their way here.
That said, I also understand this isn’t a democracy, so if the reply is simply “that’s how it is,” I guess I’m going to just shrug and accept it.
At least the reasons aren’t made up, unlike some moderators here. Hi George!
Or elsewhere. I’m currently on my second ban from lemmy.ml for violating the rule “no ads / spamming”, though I have zero posts on that instance, and none of my three comments from that day are in the same community or have any external links.
I got banned for calling a mod George Santos because he lies about everything. I don’t care about the ban but the reason this jackass listed was homophobia. Admins don’t care about it. The public modlog is RIPE for abuse.
Yup
Lol Fartington stays salty
I am being a Lemmy martyr to bring attention to abusive practices on the mod log lol
Lol I know. Be careful though, you can really go into a rabbit hole though with that. I’ve done it plenty of times.
You do know admins can just purge the modlog though right ?
I did not know the logs can be purged. That would require the admin to actually care though.
Purging is something that can’t really be used to hide mod actions, as any federated instances will still retain their copy of any purged content. Purging is a feature which is only really useful for completely removing illegal content from our servers, it’s used quite rarely and in fact leaves a trace in the mod log as well.
I’m sure they do it all the time so know one can see the real reason they ban and remove. I’m telling u. Look at there matrix chat. They talk about that shit all the time. https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/904
I mean, there u go…
Can’t wait for all the reddit powermods to come here
It’s honestly already bad. Lemmy is worse then reddit is now bc a lot of those ppl came here when the api thing happened
This is my concern. Or rather, my concern is that we will simply be replicating the reddit powermod problem with Lemmy powermods. I think we have the chance to learn from problems of the past, and I am worried we are not taking that opportunity
No, but at least in the case of the post which caused me to dive into the modlog in the first place, I do believe the judgement to be a bit subjective/arbitrary, as the post was called a “troll post” despite being about a major meme trend and was in the meme community. It was a meme about a contentious topic, and that is perhaps why it has gotten trend-level attention, but the post itself didn’t seem to be specifically bait. Which alone is fine, it’s okay to disagree with a mod decision and it doesn’t make that mod decision wrong or problematic, but that shaky reasoning plus the again, dramatic uptick in mod activity based on the entire previous history of this instance seemed worthy of inquiry to me.
Again, I’m really not try to start drama or trouble, and I don’t care about the specific post in question or any other post, I am just trying to understand before jumping to conclusions. But as somebody else pointed out, it seems like the vast majority of the activity is removing posts of a single problematic user, which is certainly valid reasoning.
My point was only that mods can list any reason publicly. If you spam and get banned, they can list the reason as spam or as anything they want such as dropping n bombs, racism, revenge porn, etc. I really don’t understand how no one else can see how abusive this feature is. Maybe I’m wrong and I would love for someone to prove me wrong.