Hi there.

A short introduction: This is an alt account. I’m a moderator here who has been unhappy with the state of news/political discussions here for a long time. The admins have kindly given me the opportunity to see if we can make some improvement the community here.

We will be doing some major revision of the rules left by the previous moderators and will use discussions in this thread as feedback on the direction we should take our community.

This will be an open discussion on the state of our community, the rules and our moderation practices. Feel free to give your inputs.

My goal is to foster thoughtful discussion in our community, and not let this place be a replica of r/politics.

First order of business, immediate rule change.

On !politics@lemmy.world, effectively immediately, we will no longer restrict political discussion to the politics of the United States of America. Discussion regarding of the state of politics from around the world is now welcome.

I will leave this pinned for 1-2 weeks for our team to take feedback and make our proposals then.

  • jordanlund@lemmy.worldM
    31·
    1 year ago

    Disappearing comments is what started this whole drama in the first place. Someone disagreed with Yobucks, had their comment removed, then reached out to me in a PM going “Hey, why was my comment removed?”

    I told them the truth, I wasn’t involved, but I’d look into it.

    Found the comment was removed, but looking at the modlog, nobody had reported it, which was odd. Generally we don’t just remove comments unless someone reports them.

    Then I looked at the message chain, saw the problematic comments by the other mod and put 2+2 together and hit up the admins going “Hey, I think this one is out of my league…”

    This is why groups of this size have multiple moderators. If you feel you’re being treated unfairly, reach out to someone else. If you feel the entire mod team is dumping on you, a) there might be a reason for that, but also b) that’s where the Admin team comes in.

    I haven’t seen the reddit style problem of an entire mod team being out of control. I hope we NEVER reach that point.

    • pelespirit@sh.itjust.works
      24·
      1 year ago

      Thanks for explaining that. That’s why I’m weirded about the lemmy world admins, that’s what happened to me from them. They then show a thread where the original comment was changed. I trust you guys, not the lemmy world admins. I think you guys have been and could continue to be doing a great job and then they can come in and change whatever on a whim, like they just did. I really liked this community and the way you ran it, sad to go.

      Edit: When I say “just did”, I mean how they changed a comment and then linked to it as evidence with the entire attitude of a troll. The mod being removed seemed justified.

      • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldEnglish
        62·
        1 year ago

        Bruh…

        You’ve spent 7 hours in this thread going on about how you’re totally ready to stop posting here…

        Have you thought about just not posting here?

      • Sukkumadukku@lemmy.world
        41·
        1 year ago

        Instead of complaining for 8 (!) hours maybe put your money where your mouth is, block this instance and focus on your own community.

        Like someone else pointed out nobody is forcing you to be here 🥱

      • Antik 👾@lemmy.world
        3·
        1 year ago

        “they changed a comment before linking it”

        You can even see when the post was last edited, this is just false 🤷🏻

        Edit: saying we changed the comment and calling the admins here trolls while we were really just trying to be helpful. You’re no longer welcome here