A recent post collected some comments by moderator Yobuckstopshere which were reported for being Covid misinformation. Further, comments calling out the misinformation were being removed.

This was reported to me, and after a short examination, I engaged the lemmy.world site admins who took the following actions:

Yobuckstopshere was removed as moderator from both Politics and World News. The comments were removed, and they were banned for 3 days.

This is tough for me since I value their contributions to Lemmy, and why I had to recuse myself beyond getting the Admins involved, but if it were anyone else, the comments would have been removed and the user banned, and so here we are.

Similarly, I don’t like exposing behind the scenes drama so to speak, but I also believe in transparency in moderation action. It’s why I reply to posts and comments before I remove them citing exactly why they are being removed. I feel everyone deserves to know why action is being taken.

Unlike reddit, there is a process for removing moderators who appear to have been acting in bad faith. Your first line of defense is other moderators, but we are also in regular contact with the lemmy.world admins whose decision is final.

  • pelespirit
    10·
    11 months ago

    I think there are ways to get it not to show up in the modlogs, you might want to look into that. I’ve seen issues with this. It could be quirks, but the fact that godlesscommie showed receipts tells you something.

    Edit: I wanted to add that when I first came to Lemmy, I posted an article here and he removed it. I asked him why and he said that it was an accident and he’ll post it again. He didn’t, so I asked him if he was fucking with me. He then reinstated it. He’s been messing with stuff for awhile.