news: .world world news mod removed from world news (i.imgur.com)

submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by spujb@lemmy.cafe to c/yepowertrippinbastards@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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I cannot repost what Flying Squid was posting here, because it involved highly disturbing and dangerous content, including:

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Graphic content, harassment, self-harm, and suicidal ideation, which I reported immediately.

While this behavior is shocking, it’s not completely out of left field, as members of this community and platform will already be familiar with their behavior. Flying Squid has long been regarded as one of the least productive and most problematic mods on all of Lemmy, often picking fights and abusing their mod privileges. I view this change as a positive step for Squid, .world, and Lemmy as a whole.

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[-] PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat 5 points 1 month ago

The modlog, as far as I can tell, gets sorted in the same order as user profiles do, by default. Which is to say "here's some recent stuff okay let's skip over some stuff hey here's some random stuff from two months ago that's pretty good right? I have been drinking FYI."

I could be wrong about this. I definitely feel like I have seen it be missing stuff even without mod purges though. Searching for the specific community or specific user / moderator you're looking for is usually pretty reliable, as long as there aren't pages and pages of results, then the same issue seems like it might occur.

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