Well hello again everybody! This has been a wonderful past couple of days. I want to give a huge thank you to everybody who participated in my Under New Management post from Thursday. There was a lot of great feedback, and it will go a long way to helping me better understand all of your wants and needs for this community. Yay!
Yes, this will be wordy. Read it anyway. I will try to be concise.
I spent the entirety of Thursday afternoon and evening working through the over 600 reports that existed for the community. There are still a little less than 200 more left to work through. To be fully transparent, I was given the option of simply mass clearing all of the reports so that I could start with a clean slate. Halfway through, it was very tempting to take the powers-that-be (PtB) up on their generous offer. ๐ But, I wanted to see the reports and see what was being reported (and also by whom). Again, this is my way of learning about this community and its members.
The first thing I want to say is this: for the time being, I have decided that @beep@piefed.world is allowed to stay โ with conditions. I have reached out privately to them about their past behavior, and they conveyed that they will respect the rules going forward. I have conveyed back to them that their continued use of the community is contingent on their ability to not break the rules going forward (especially with the alteration of comics). With this said, I fully expect this to ruffle quite a few of those proverbial feathers. But, for better or for worse, the decision is made. Please do not report their posts/comments merely because of who they are. If you do report them for anything, do it because it actually breaks the rules (be sure to be specific about what rules).
With this out of the way, I also want to take a moment to welcome the following people to our moderation team:
- @TheTechnician27@lemmy.world
- @Harvey656@lemmy.world
- @slazer2au@lemmy.world
- @Otter@lemmy.ca
- @cannedtuna@lemmy.world
- @18107@aussie.zone
They have each reached out in some capacity to ask for this job, and I see no reason to not bring them aboard to help out. I expect that they will do their very best to ensure that this community, and its visitors, are treated fairly and with the upmost respect they deserve. Let's be sure that they get the same in return. Everyone made it a strong point that we are all adults here, so let's be sure to act like it.
typical zionist rats use brigade reporting to censor what they don't like.
I leave it to the mods usually. But you apparently act on their reports no questions asked and see no reason to remove their comments.
IDK what's happening lately.
"Allah can choke on a dick just like your mother did."
Now there's one comment from a hasbarat to someone else I reported earlier.
Nothing happened, msg the mods to ask WTF they were doing, still they leave it up.
EDIT: Oof Lemmy mod tools are poopy, I will find the proper comment in a moment
EDIT 2: Just use the report tool, and stop calling people fascists when they don't agree with you.
Next time, use the report button. This behavior WILL get you banned. I'll look into your history to see if I can find this person, but if you don't start treating people like humans, I will always consider the comment a break of Rule 1.
you've cherrypicked that (justified) one while ALL my comments got removed.
Here is the post
And now the removal of said comments is no longer visible in my modlog!
WTF is happening here?
To my untrained eye, looks like the person is asking for love not hate. Ther wordage isnt perfect but not thay bad.
OK, you choose to see nothing wrong with that.
I will use the same tricks from now on to avoid your double standards.
and simply say you seem to be an hasbara apologist and you are sounding like a Reddit zionist planted scumbag mod.
I don't even know what half of that means.
zionists and genociders are de facto fascists.
I can't call them that, yet when they use a simple semantic trick and say "You are talking like a fascist" to me or "you start to seem like a psycho" that's OK?
BTW your last remark "if you donโt start treating people like humans" sounds suspiciously like that same, guy who seems like a real hasbara cunt (see what I did there?) who writes "Talk about humans as if theyโre humans"
So is that your alt account or what?
I only have a single account.
The problem is beyond just calling people fascists, you threaten them, use terrible language and treat people poorly in general.
I dont want use the mod powers I was granted, I like this place, and want it to flourish without bad actors. Please tone it down.
you can mod all you want, just not with double standards, you're biased dude. Plane and simple
There have been at least three different mods who have responded to you. Which one are you calling biased.
More importantly (from the standpoint of moderation tools being pretty elementary to non-existent here on Lemmy), can you link to the individual comments?
My best guess is that the user who you spoke to reported your comments which is why they were all removed.
But with a backlog of over 300 reports when the mods are essentially volunteers, they can't read the entirety of every conversation in order to find fault with comments that weren't reported.
So, if the comments were bad enough that you feel they should be removed, please report them.
And stop with the all caps and the "Zionist" stuff. I don't like genocide and don't agree with Israel on most things but it's hard to take you seriously when you sound like you're raving.
I'n not going through this again.
I've pointed these 'mods' to the comments already.
Mine get removed for rule 1,(be nice)
but it's OK to say "you talk like a fascist", "you seem like a psycho", etc...
One says there's nothing wrong with it, the other just couldn't find the 10 seconds to do it. They do have plenty of time to whitewash themselves and make excuses to me tho.
And I will comment about zionist as much as I want, you 'mods' who seem like fascist infiltrators (this is allowed bcs I used 'seem') can do whatever you want, and leave those obvious biased comments and the censorship of anti-zionist comments on there for everyone to see.
Enjoy your filthy zionist cesspool and don't talk to me.
I'm not a mod. Literally have never been a mod. Pretty sure I can't be trusted to be a mod.
At any rate what I'm trying to say is other people might also report the comments if you link to them and call them out.
If you want action, that's how you get it. But the rhetoric you're spewing turns people who might otherwise be on your side (against Israel for what they are doing in Palestine), and nobody gets anything done by themselves.
what's the use of anybody or even everybody reporting if these shitmods say there's nothing wrong with it?
They can leave their blatant bias and evidence of in the comment section for everyone to see.
And that's all the time I'm going to waste on them
Throw up your hands and wring them then instead of being proactive toward what you want. If all you're here for is to complain, good riddance.
LOL , I wanted fair treatment and not being biased genocide supporters.
You call that complaining?
I'm not wasting time on this shitty com, I have verified proof of what they are and do so they can go fuck themselves.
And you too bootlicker
*plain. Also, if you're not just trolling, you should get offline for a while.
I'm always happy to listen to feedback, and change my behaviour when I'm wrong.
I will not be removing comments just because they have been reported, or just because I disagree with them. I will only be removing comments that explicitly break the rules as listed on the sidebar. You are welcome to report any comment you believe should be removed. There is no penalty for incorrectly reporting something if it is done in good faith (i.e. don't report everything just because I said no penalty).
While not explicitly against rule 1 (Be nice), I believe "zionist rats" could have been phrased as "zionists" or "zionist people" while still making the same point.
"you talk like a fascist" and "you seem like a psycho" is following rule 1 (Be nice)? LOL
I did not say that, and I did not imply it either. I was telling you what you can do to improve your interactions with this community and it's mods.
I was given moderator privileges a few hours ago. I have not yet seen those comments, and had nothing to do with them.
I suggest taking some time away from this to clear your head before making further comments. It's hard to argue in good faith while angry.
That other 'mod' if you can him that has seen the comments and decided all of that was OK, while ALL of mine got removed.
I will indeed leave it at that since I'm justifiably disgusted.
If you want censorship and pro-genocider biased moderation then Reddit or X already exist.
Do not appreciate it here.
Goodbye