unfortunately it's still not finished, but we have an update here now: https://lemmy.world/post/36621226

i tend to be too optimistic on the timelines in which we get things done, especially when they are moderation related. we have just published an official update on the current situation: https://lemmy.world/post/36621226

should we just purge all mods of LW communities because someone says so? we don't arbitrarily remove mods without a proper review. it's not the action of removing someone that requires time but the review whether it should be done.

jordan has been removed from our community team several days ago and we're still reviewing further stuff to determine additional actions to take.

there is no clear date to put on this other than my previous comment about it taking several days, as this is all shitty work that takes time and is not something that anyone is looking forward to do. it's obviously our responsibility to review an act in situations like this, but there is only so much time available from volunteers. i'm hoping that we can finalize it this weekend, as weekends tend to be when people have more time available.

there have been multiple voices within our team, as well as from Ruud, to simply strip his moderator permissions from all communities, but this is not something aligning with our rules, especially as this specific part was established after the c/vegan drama some time ago. there are multiple reasons justifying removal of moderators from LW communities, but if we apply them we need to ensure that we have proper justification for that, for every affected community, which is the main thing that is currently still being worked on. i expect that we will find valid justifications for at least some communities, but we need to do this before the removal.

the actions taken so far were primarily relating to his behavior while being a member of our team, not due to his behavior as a community moderator or regular user, as we intend to hold our team to higher standards than regular users or moderators, making this a lot easier to justify.

ethical ads are virtually non-existent. when limiting ads to ethical ads it's unlikely you're getting even remotely close to bringing in the necessary funds.

people promoting ads are typically those who expect others to suffer while they themselves are using ad blockers. there are some people who honestly turn off ad blockers, but i wouldn't recommend anyone to do that for any site, as i don't consider the majority of ads ethical and it's also often used as a malware/phishing/scam distribution mechanism.

this is also a vicious cycle of more people blocking ads -> ads getting worse to offset the lost ad revenue -> more people blocking ads. this is what lead to the internet today, where the majority of the internet is basically unusable if you don't use ublock origin or a comparable solution.

the domain you posted a link to was in our automod blacklist due to previously being used by spam bots.

upon review it appears that this domain serves user generated content by different users that can be determined in the URL path. in those cases we typically only ban those users rather than the entire site if it's not overly spammy.

we also usually review automod actions quickly, although in this specific case we must have missed this, as we had a lot of other true spam removals in the last days.

you have been unbanned from LW and your post has been restored.

not at all. nobody can revert edits, only the creator can edit it again.

moderators can restore removed (mod action) posts and comments, but not deleted (creator action) posts and comments.

this comment section is not a place to rant about other instances

a moderator on another instance than the community instance

that was a logic flaw for the selection of which reports are considered for alerting. a fix is currently being deployed, but you should be good for the next 2 days anyway.

Hi,

this was unfortunately an error on our end.

Please bear with us while we work on resolving this situation.

so far this has been a single case with kbin.earth and lots and lots of cases with kbin.social.

no other instances have been observed behaving like this yet.