Do you realize the same thing applies here on Lemmy? Lemmy mods can just make up any reason or give no reason for your ban, and can ignore your messages and you have no way to appeal.
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SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world 5 weeks agoMods should be forced to indicate what rule was broken when banning. All bans should be appealable on reddit and addressed by a human being. Mods who have a history of frequent ban overturns should be suspended or banned.
FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au 5 weeks ago
SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Absolutely but Lemmy isn’t monolithic like reddit.
willington@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 weeks ago
I think the concept of moderation by an individual needs more scrutiny. Why not build a software algorithm to allow for subscribers to vote on moderation actions?
In other words, instead of vertical top heavy moderation, privide a more level, more horizontal process, where our peers play a significant role, or even act as co-moderators.
We are recreating in software all the top down vertical hierarchies we tend to be sceptical of in the real world. Why?
Imagine if there was no jury trial? How much worse would thing be?
So why do we build an online world with a lower standard than we use to build the physical world. That’s just sloppy.
SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
I’d think then you’d hit the issue of a total echo chamber where anything even slightly challenging the mob gets deleted.
willington@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 weeks ago
That’s not necessarily an issue. The mob is often right.
I’ll take the mob over the despot any day, unless I am the despot.
SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
I have to disagree with you there. History shows the mob is rarely much better than the despot and the mob becomes the despot.
ronl2k@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Reddit mods don’t even have to answer your request for an appeal. So their bans are never overturned.