beneeney

@beneeney@lemm.ee

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why were all the mods removed from this community today, leaving it un-modded?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Hey, I see you deleted your posts and comments but I wanted to respond anyway for the sake of clarity.

  I agree with your points about downvotes and this community being a source of opposition media. If we were against this, the community would’ve been removed a long time ago. The community is still up. We aren’t going to curate or over-police it. It’s in an awkward phase for sure, but the community is still pro-conservatism. I don’t necessarily want to see it turn into an anti-conservative dunk zone. There are plenty other places for that.

  Deciding to keep using this community or to move instances - that’s up to the people. Our main concern is keeping things in line with Lemm.ee’s rules, and not allowing unacceptable content to be left up for as long as it was the other day.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why were all the mods removed from this community today, leaving it un-modded?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  So will you keep it unmodded? Because that seems like a worse idea. Your community, your rules, but I’m just wondering about the thoughts behind leaving a “controversial” community unmodded.

  “Unmodded” might not be the right word. To clarify, there will be no “community moderators”, but we the admin team will keep an eye on it for the time being. We feel that there was an issue with reports from the queue being resolved by mods, but with no action taken against unacceptable content. It made it sort of a blind spot for us, hence the Nazi salute celebration hitting the front page of the community for 2 days.

  And the person who posted the Nazi salute pic is not the only person to be banned on Lemm.ee lately.

  So are you telling me that lemm.ee has NOT changed it’s attitudes towards banning and what it allows on here in the last few months?

  I’m not implying you are wrong, I would like qualification. Because I have seen other peopel say the same thing to. There seems to be a much lower tolerance lately.

  Lemm.ee is growing pretty quickly and people get banned every day - the modlog is public. A recent uptick is possible, but our admin activity can fluctuate pretty sporadically depending on IRL stuff. Any tolerance of unacceptable content is due to blind spots as stated above, or us simply not having had the time or resources.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why were all the mods removed from this community today, leaving it un-modded?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Hi.

  The admin is suddenly ban hammer happy too.

  The only person who was banned is the one who posted the Nazi salute picture.

  Lemm.ee is a bunch of new admins, so it’s not longer as friendly to differing opinions as it once was.

  Lemm.ee has a single new admin (JuiceMachine). The rest of us have been here for over a year and the decision to de-mod this community is not a new idea. We are not removing the community at this time, we just feel it has not been effectively moderated to fit in with Lemm.ee’s rules. We want to observe how things go and take further action if needed.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It seems some higher level moderation of communities may be required⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Hi Lemm.ee, and @almost1337 -

  Sorry for the late resolution on this. As @JuiceMachine said yesterday, the post is now removed. So is the non-Lemm.ee user that posted it.

  Our admin team has a general philosophy to remain as unbiased as possible, and to not over-police content on Lemm.ee. As the sidebar says, the rules are simple. We will typically leave things up and let the downvotes speak for themselves. However I will agree: that post should not have stood for 2 days like it did. !Conservative@lemm.ee might be the most controversial community on this instance, and I feel that we have not been able to properly manage it. This is due partly to technical limitations and several moderation quirks of Lemmy. Specifically: When a user reports a post in a community, the report goes to that community’s moderators, as well as the instance admins. When one of those parties resolves the report (with or without action), it disappears from everyone’s report queue. That being said, we (the admin team) almost never see reports from !Conservative@lemm.ee. Putting 2 and 2 together, something is definitely wrong.

  I want to be transparent about our next steps. At this point in time, we are not planning on deleting the community, but we have removed the mods. Step 1 is to observe the report queue ourselves for a bit, and then make a decision. We don’t want to censor unpopular views, and we also don’t want to harbor the hateful content that sparked this post. Please continue to report and let us know.

  Thank you!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lemm.ee is recruiting new admins!⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It is linked towards the top of the instance sidebar

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Does Lemm.ee Have a TOS?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  As commented by others, there is a Privacy Policy in the footer, and a basic administration policy in the sidebar.

  At this time we have not seen the need for a formal ToS. Moderation has always been 100% at our discretion and we strive to be as reasonable and fair with our rules.

  In less corporate-speak - we are pretty chill and as long as content is legal and respectful, we generally keep our hands out of stuff.