I am completely serious about this as it’s been a fundamental question I’ve had since I joined here.
The modlogs always seem to show only two people from that instance that carry out removals and bans, but there are actually mods for each of those communities that you never see issuing any mod actions.
Serious question:
Is there a reason for this? Am I missing something? I mean, I have my opinions, but I’m shelving them for the purpose of this post to just simply ask, is this purposeful in some way?
Please keep opinions civil. This isn’t to create a flame war, just to ask if there’s a reason for this because i just find it odd. Is there maybe someone from that instance that knows why that can clear this up?
(Though I did check the rules before posting, if this isn’t allowed, I totally understand,)
The idea may be to get mods up to speed on moderation so they can take over with time.
Also, given than .ml is the developers’ instance, they are likely more focused on Lemmy than most mods are. So, the admins may be more protective because they are on Lemmy more than the mods.
If the admins are at some point distracted, or otherwise are unexpectedly removed from their ability to moderate for a time, and comms have no reliable moderators, then everything will be… well, unmoderated. Having active users as moderators, even if they currently don’t do much moderating compared to the admins, makes the moderation system as a whole more likely to survive any unforeseen events.
It is surely good to occasionally test whether unforeseen events will cause disruption. Do you know how often such a test is performed?
For example, nuclear weapons systems are tested occasionally, and seeing a failure is probably important information.
Giving moderators practice with moderating will probably improve their performance when they are actually needed.
Yeah, community moderators may also understand the context of the community better. Normal trolls and spammers can be taken care of by anyone, but if there’s a derogatory name for a sports team, for example, you need to know the context to understand what’s happening.
And in that vein, lots of conflicts can be handled without reaching for the ban hammer. Just having a dedicated person that does the handling is good to have.
It feels like the moderator mechanism isn’t really needed yet in most communities
How do you read that from the modlog? It doesn’t seem show which moderator performed a given action for me…?
There are several front ends for lemmy. Some show more info than others.
Vs
For example.
There are a few interfaces along with the Voyager app that show the mod performing the action.
One of the communities I maintained already popped in some really disturbing…content that needed to get removed.
Lemmy.ml has it’s issues to be fair, but we keep bumping into each other and you’re constantly stirring the same shitpot.
Hey everyone! This is my pet troll, mutual something-or-another. (I’ll come up with a better name later)
They’ve adopted me in a conversion where I spoke my opinion about a comic- and they didn’t like it. So now- I’m being tailed.
So far, they’ve followed me through two other instances to whine about whatever it is that I’m saying.
It’s worth nothing that it seems we on opposite ends of every possible issue, and that seems to include common sense, but if this is the type of shit that can make good TV, I can’t see why we can’t make it work here.
lol… no, just felt the need to finally say something about it.
It happens they usually either get bored or banned.
Either works for me.
Couldn’t you block them?
I could.
Just remember to take your shoes off at the door.
