There was a post the other day about a “powermod” from reddit who was doing the same thing with lemmy communities - snatching up dozens of names and squatting on them. Folks are rightly asking for restrictions on the number of communities any one person can mod, along with other safeguards to prevent power-tripping.
The problem was that mod was doing it on lemmy.world, which was the default instance for a lot of users.
It isn’t as valuable to do here as someone can create a new sub on a different instance, but it was still annoying.
Can moderators of a sub ban people from the instance or is there just an overlap between moderators of that sub and moderators of the instance?
My understanding is that sub moderators are technically different positions from instance admins, but I would expect some collaboration.
However, I don’t think there is a way to ban a person from an instance yet. I’m not sure, though.
Is there any incentive other than showing who’s boss on the internet? I struggle to see how the amount of time and energy involved in moderating just one community, let alone multiple ones, are worth it just to get a power high. It seems exhausting.
It’s an influence game like anything else online now that the Internet is commoditized. Corporations and political influence campaigns can and do pay for control of high-traffic accounts and communities to nudge discussions to benefit whatever they’re selling.
Is this what leads to “you’ve commented in so we’re gonna ban you from ”?
I’ve never encountered that myself. What communities are you commenting in that you’re getting banned elsewhere for it?
Happened a couple of times on Reddit. For example, banned from r/Stepparents for participation in r/AmITheDevil. Just randomly messaged and told.
I know a lot of the parenting subs would ban you if you commented in r/childfree. Albeit, childfree is a toxic sub and a lot of the people there would subscribe to parenting subs just to troll them.
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If that is a Meta commentary, then that is clever.
Mods at [email protected] will remove posts that even slightly hint that you have depression, even though their rules state that they will not remove mental health related posts. It’s a really fucked up thing to do to someone that needs help. Society loves to say “seek help” “talk to someone” “we’re always here for you”, but the moment you seek advice, they want you to go away. Oh you know the community they keep telling you to go to [email protected]? You aren’t allowed to express any suicidal thoughts.
A depressed person: “I’m feeling sad and don’t really have the energy to keep going anymore… Can I talk to someone here?”
Mods: Nope go away you crazy suicidal maniac, we don’t want to talk to you.
That is indeed bad for the person :/
Why do they do that? Lability reasons?
Looks like we need a new community. There are definitely two communities for depression. Try those
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How are you liking running your own instance?
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Aren’t you listening? He’s not liking it! His users are pissed!
Why don’t you choose another
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There’s barely moderation, much less overreach.
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Some instances censor incoming and outgoing swear words, I was surprised to learn.
That is absolutely removed.
Removed that removed.
In my experience, they censor slurs of all varieties but you can still say “fuck” “shit” and “piss” as much as you wish.
Unless you’re quoting, I have no problems with slurs being removed. If you wanna be like that, X will love you.
Honestly, even quoting is suspect. Unless the quote is to prove someone else said it, it doesn’t seem to me to benefit anything at all.
I don’t want to rule it out totally in case context matters in some case….
Clbuttic.
What the f**k?
Nonexistent.