I want to give my side of the story.

I removed one of person’s comment on the political community because it was reported, from what I can recall, it was a very long, borderline QAnon level rant that was antagonizing other users for essentially not buying into their conspiracy theory, which we took very seriously here.

This person was not even banned, and the modlog can confirm that.

I have had literally zero interaction with this person in any form other than this single comment removal. I have never sent this person a single DM or reply, and I think our admins can confirm that.

When I woke up the next morning, I saw 4 already removed reply to my comments from this person, and it appears that this person has already purged their own account.

If you didn’t want to engage in more drama, then why did you title this post “new mod drama”, instead of just “admin action and mod removal” for YoBuck?

Lund, all my communication to you were in the DMs, please show everyone the messages where I am hostile to you, because I don’t remember sending anything of that nature to you, while you are making it sound like I am hurling insults and slurs at you which simply was not true.

For little_cow, I was frustrated with their actions with the MBFC controversy that both you and them were involved in, I was trying to find a way to handle it delicately, but you two seem intent on causing as much drama with that as possible.

Didn’t your top mod tell you I was discussing future rule changes with them in the DMs? I told you before that I’m busy with work, talk to me in the DMs, if you want me to get on Discord for important things, schedule a time, I can’t spend all day there.

It is really telling to me then that you worked with YoBuckStopsHere for ~6 months, while he said horrid things around our instance as a mod, like “dropping white phosphorus on civilians isn’t a war crime”, “a girl who is a victim of suicide doesn’t deserve sympathy”, or when he was banned from startrek.website for being a homophobe and the embarrassing events that followed, and you removed me in 2 weeks for daring to take feedback for improvement, actually enforcing the rules you set up, and not wanting to be a part of the powermod mess that caused this whole thing to begin with.

The headline is a bit misleading, as you can see in the 2nd paragraph of the submission text, it’s the current round of assistance that has halted, and they’re pushing for Congress to continue their support of Ukraine.

Starting the contest this weekend might be good.

I see thoughtful, factual comments with double digit negative scores.

I see short, factually incorrect comments highly rewarded for asserting as facts, things that are unlikely and unproven

Unfortunately, this is really a community cultural issue inherited from the old site. Karma isn’t a thing here, but I do believe the habits formed from having karma to be the root of many toxic behaviors here.

There is no user scoring system here, if your views are unpopular but reasonable, I don’t see the need to remove it; the opposite is true, if your comment is upvoted but breaks our community rules, then they will be removed.

I am a strong believer in democracy, but I don’t believe in mob rule, so the above is the principle I go by.

To address your points.

I think there should be a good justification for all of our rules. LW isn’t US based, many on the admin team are not even native English speakers, I see no good justification for us to restrict ourselves to US politics only. Of course, people upvote what they want to see here.

I don’t think we will be restricting text posts in the future, I would like to see it being allowed here in general. But changes should be implemented carefully but steadily.

I would like the feedback thread to serve the function of a general meta post on our moderation style. We’re all human, we make mistakes, but acknowledging them and correct them quickly would be our goal.

Link is already changed to suggestion in the comments.

Sorry, lemm.ee was not federating correct until now.

I think it is OK to discuss in this context, however, given that the evidence is really circumstantial at best, it could be hard to keep it on this track of discussion without muchbsupporting evidence to back it up.

Given the removal of the US only restriction here, I am hoping that we can use !politics@lemmy.world as a place that allows for analysis and op-eds, and keep !world@lemmy.world as the place that does not allow op-eds and focus solely on world news.

It was startrek.website, right? I know about that one.

I have gone out of my way to not interact with him or even be on the same mod team as him, because some of the things he said was legitimately disturbing, and I think he needs serious help. It is my hope that our community can move past him.

With any luck, we’ll start running the contest very soon.

I can assure you that I was not and am not a LW admin.

The previous logo and banner was made by YoBuck, I think he took it with him when he left.

Might want to run a logo contest/banner contest sometimes soon, if you guys are interested.

Good to talk to you again. You are one of my favorite accounts on Lemmy.

Are the mods thinking transforming this community into something like “ask politics”-type format?

Article submissions are still very much welcome here, but I would like to expand this place so that we have more discussion among the community on political topics. So, a bit of both.

I do want to foster a culture of thoughtful discussion here, and that needs to originate from our power submitter such as yourself. If you put in effort in your submission, then the comment section will be encouraged to make effort as well.

I don’t think a weekly highlighting would be necessary, because I think we should all read more and be more informed on politics before we comment. Still thinking about what we should do here.

!politicalmemes@lemmy.world would be good.

Let’s discuss whether this kind of article should be allowed in the future, since this violates rule 2, it’s only very tangentially relevant to politics.

I would like to address your concerns. The audience here is very much US centric, so that even with the current rule change, I don’t expect the content and culture here to drastically change overnight. In fact, I would still very much expect US politics to be fairly dominant here in the near future.

And rest assured, we would not want the antagonism here to increase either.

I’ll give it my best shot.

I made an alt for this specific reason, among others.

News should be news, I would like this community to focus on political discussions, editorials, and commentaries from a variety of viewpoints, if that makes sense.

And to be frank, I don’t think topics like “Trump smells bad” is good political discussion, which is what I would aim to avoid.