Have you even been here 20 seconds? The lack of self awareness is astounding. Wow.
Proudly perma-banned from Reddit for taking the piss out of the far right.
Proudly had comments deleted from lemmy.ml for taking the piss out of the far left.
Perfectly balanced, as all things should be.
Getting banned from Lemmy.ml is like shooting fish in a barrel though. They’re very sensitive.
They are as easy to trigger as your average Tumblr user.
Completely unrelated, does anyone remember suck.com? A Fish, a Barrel, a Smoking Gun.
Hell, they’ll even kick you for shit you say OUTSIDE their instances
Ah so it’s not just me then…
Please don’t call them “the far left”. They’re just pretending, in reality they’re authoritarians defending Russia, China and Iran, while shitting on the West at every opportunity.
Perhaps alt left?
Ooh, I like that one.
Alt left covers way too many factions of people that it could apply to. You have disaffected liberals, anti-woke progressives, left-lib Joe Rogan types, tankies and MAGA communists. MAGAcoms are just tankies who vote for populist Republicans because Bolsheviks and Republicans happen to align on many/social cultural issues and support using the state to crack down on what they consider moral depravity.
I used to help moderating a sub for a while, terrible hobby, you had this feed that was a constant stream of shit that you had to clean it out, some people of the internet are just disgusting.
Also being in part responsible about what to do with the people having a mental health crisis, it does affect you to an extent.
Wouldn’t do it again easily.
And people blame us for everything wrong with the sub too without having no clue about the whys, just to be in on the trend, and also endless fking drama, “why did you delete my hate speech 😭😭😭”.
Adult babies.
But yeah, some subs are moderated like shit, a lot of times the only people who remain are people who are in for the resemblance of power and don’t mind/like that kind of treatment, IE they’re as shit as what they’re moderating, rchile wasn’t really that way and that’s why it has been chronically undermodded and basically bleeds mods.
Mod on lemmy, mod on reddit…
I was downvoted to hell in a gaming sub, I made a reply to my comment and provided examples and got upvoted for that. I got banned by the mod for negativity or something even though my post wasn’t directed at anyone, it was just downvoted because I said something without proof initially.
Here after a permanent ban for asking what a post meant. Fuck Reddit.
Fuck these mods too.
Welcome to Lemmy Here from a permanent ban last year for … Fuck I don’t even know just pissed off the wrong mod
That’s their M.O.
Same on basically any community here with mods/admins with an agenda. I’ve had comments removed from multiple communities that don’t break any written rules.
Thank gods that doesn’t happen here. Right?
Right guys?
Pretty sure you’re about to get banned.
Or Lemmy mod/admin.
(In before this gets removed, lol)
100%
This is absolute bullshit.
I used to be a mod on /r/soccer, and there were strict rules around duplicates, and on keeping things related to football news and OC. It’s the most popular sport in the world, and when you’ve got enough subscribers to fill multiple stadiums, just “posting anything football” doesn’t scale. You also end up with a huge amount of content about the most popular teams, and when there’s a long-tail of fans from other leagues/countries you isolate a lot of people.
I can happily say that in the time I was a mod there were no questionable decisions. The mods went out of their way to verify decisions, discuss them with others, and reverse any bans if the user acknowledged that they’d broken rules. What the mods got in return was:
- Probably 5-10 death threats a day. No hyperbole.
- A handful of script kiddies that tried to spam the sub with offensive content, CP, and stuff that obviously breaks the rules.
- One stalking attempt on a mod that resulted in the police getting involved, a potential arrest, and a kid getting kicked out of school.
- Several people getting pissy, starting their own subs, and then realising that keeping things on topic and stopping people posting “Paul Pogba skills compilation 2015-2020 Despacito Remix” several times a day is quite tricky…
Funny enough, pretty much every decision was made by reports. Four reports triggered a message in modmail, and we just followed what users had reported…
How does moderating like that work? Do you guys take shifts? Is there a group chat?
Everything is done via modmail. Users report posts/comments, and the reports go into a queue that basically says “this comment has been reported due to X”. As a mod, you go into the queue, review the content, and decide what to do. Very occasionally, you’d look at the new posts, but very few people did this, because reports would usually come into modmail within minutes. In terms of “power”, all that was different from being a normal user was some extra buttons, and modmail.
Often we’d be called out for banning people, or deleting things. This was almost always the admins, because I assume people had broken rules that had incurred their wrath, or they had been caught with duplicate/spam profiles to get around bans. We got a lot of shit for one ban…which was the kid that got in trouble with the police for stalking a mod at their place of work.
There were about 15 of us, and we were told to basically do as much or as little as possible. All the rules were community driven, so users got a say in what rules to add (don’t accept this source, no compilations, no news from years ago to confuse people, etc).
Sadly, with such a popular sub, a post that clearly breaks rules might get 300-500 upvotes before it’s removed, and you get the typical “but everyone likes this post, why remove it?!”. In my experience, users don’t care if it breaks the rules, until they care it breaks the rules. There is no winning when you’re a mod.
I did it because I used the sub for a decade, and wanted to give back while.i had been laid-off from work (COVID times). I definitely don’t regret it, and if Reddit weren’t so shit I’d do it again.
Yeah your experience matches mine. Id really encourage people to not blanket trash on all mods. It is a lot of work that goes into moderating communities and it is either done by people who love the community, or by someone who loves that power dynamic. I’m not saying all mods are perfect, but give a chance for individual mods to prove themselves. It’s generally a thankless job, especially lately. By trashing on all mods we’re just going to scare away the good intentioned people and all that is left are the power hungry ones.
We are not immune or even shy with this problem.
Sorry bro, the cropping here is very bad, I can’t see what it says :(
You should probably do a better job of cropping your memes bro
Lemmy ain’t any better
Except most of the mods are people starting the comm, and/or chosen by those u till abandoned.
R*ddit often arbitrarily assigned mods.
Reddit never assigned mods until the exodus. Almost all communities had people who created them as the mods.
I was mod in a one with assigned mods, and one of them had been assigned to multiple subreddits
Edit: Actually, I didn’t see that happen myself, that was just the rumor, and could have been part of in-mod drama, of which there was a bunch.
Pretty much the only subs that had mods that got them assigned where the main default ones, but that was at the beginning and pretty much all those big sub mods just wanted the power and literally would do anything they could to get in with other big subs as mods even if they didn’t contribute.
Sir, this is a Wendy’s
Sir, this is a Lemmy’s
That doesn’t make the end result any better.
Yes and no, more group think, but you’re also much freer to start your own comm and moderate it better.
It happens on Lemmy, as well. I have seen posts removed according to a “rule x”, where “rule x” when the post didn’t go anywhere near “rule x”. I just left the community, even if those posts weren’t mine.
When the billionaire sister of Elaine Chao (wife of Moscow Mitch and nepotism hire in the Trump administration) drowned in a Tesla, I got banned for 3 days for “celebrating her death” even though I did no such thing:
The same mod banned 13 other people for the same thing in the same thread, even though only one or two of them had actually broken the rule.
Deserved it.
Why do you think so? I didn’t break any rules and it’s not like any of the people who know that billionaire leech on society (but I repeat myself) are going to go on Lemmy to see my joke 🤷
Wishing ill on someone purely because they’re wealthy is gross, and also just plain cringe.
First of all, I didn’t wish ill on anyone. I made a joke about it being unfair to connect an innocent non public person to Moscow Mitch, then pretended TP concede the point because of her billionaire status.
Secondly, being a billionaire isn’t just “wealthy”. It’s a grotesque level of wealth hoarding that’s impossible to achieve without abusing and/or severely depriving people who have done you no harm. THAT’S “plain cringe”.
Pictured: what most people would consider a significant amount of money, what most people would consider a large enough net “worth” to be wealthy and a ridiculous dragon’s hoard, respectively:
These were the complaints I heard about mods before the API debacle. After all the mods quit or got their 3rd party tools nuked, it was all complaints about repost bots not being removed. I’ve never been a mod, but you couldn’t pay me enough to babysit thousands of angry dorks, much less get me to do it for free.
The feeling of power over other others is their payment.
