Comment on The same people who rage against authority love moderating communities where their ideology is the only one allowed

• LurkingLuddite@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  How do you see overly heavy opinion based moderation if you’re never the target of it? You don’t. You just see communities that are weirdly same-think. Though I bet you’d jist dismiss it as a consequence of the fediverse already self-selecting for a certain type, but that is wrong.

  There is bad moderation all over the place, but you don’t see it, because many mods/admins prefer to ban and delete than to let the vote system do its job.

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  • Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    That’s why I rigorously review the modlog.

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    • LurkingLuddite@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      and what happens when a mod or admin abuses their power? If the answer is only people whine about it, all you have is a minor step in the right direction and not an actual solution.

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      • Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Make an alternate community on another instance without abusive mods.

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      • Skavau@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Lemmy/Piefed is far more resistant to bad actor community capture by a capricious moderator. Instance admins are usually far closer to the day-to-day operations and thus have their pulse on their communities in a way that reddit admins do not. Secondly, the federative nature of it means that any community can be replicated elsewhere.

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  • adhd_traco@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    By noticing people complaining about it :) Also being aware of certain biases and such, and looking for the existence of posts that would be deleted if the bias was heavy, etc.

    Sure, some stuff might fall under the radar or stay for a long time, definitely a thing.

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    • LurkingLuddite@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Nah, the complaints get deleted faster than the wrong-think. The point is you aren’t given enough to ’notice’ when the hammer comes down as it does in many communities here.

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      • Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Thats also why there are mod abuse report comms. There’s more than one, too, since some of the originals are on an instance with an abusive admin.

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      • ttyybb@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        So then why is this still here?

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• WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I remember I was an administrator, and the moderator threatened to ban me. That was fun, I was like “Oh no, please don’t”. And I just played along.

  As an administrator, I had only 2 modes: Not sure, can’t ban this person without more evidence, and “that is a liability, shut down the server!”. So I didn’t react to most things that were done, even if they were technically against the rules. Then when I became the owner, I set a pol for people to decide if I should just delete the server, because I knew I didn’t have the time to make sure some truly heinous stuff does not happen.

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