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[Meta] New Rules, and New Future (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 week ago by dohpaz42@lemmy.world to c/comicstrips@lemmy.world
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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. 😅 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 – 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.

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[-] Mac@mander.xyz 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

While i think Beep is objectively a bad person, i see no reason they can't post here if they respect the rules. It's really not that ~~beep~~ deep.

[-] Grimy@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

This was removed?

[-] helpImTrappedOnline@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

Personally I think it should be tagged nsfw.

I like the metric I came up with the other day.

If you'd get arrested for showing it to a 16yr old, tag it. If you'd shoot your "creepy uncle" for showing it to your 16yr old kid, tag it.

It's not that I think a 16yr old isn't mature enough for this type of material, but it's a lot different if a much older person shares it with them. When in doubt - tag it.

[-] Harvey656@lemmy.world 0 points 1 week ago

It looksnlike the bottom of that was cut off, where attribution would usually be. I never removed it, but I would say that could be the reason. And maybe no NSFW tag, thats.... spicy?

[-] Grimy@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

It was for NSFW. I don't think many of beeps unattributed posts got removed. It's hard to know since the modlog doesn't handle images very well and you can't actually see them from. This was the only comic for which I recognize the name, I can't say if the other removed comics for NSFW were actually NSFW.

My problem with this is that, yes it is spicy but it isn't NSFW.

The pg-13 rule was the one most brought up in the last thread. I feel like it's being sweeped under the rug.

Tagging it NSFW is the same as removing it and a fake compromise imo. I'm guessing almost all users surf this comm with NSFW off. I see NSFW as being strictly pornography and things of that nature, not a comic with a joke alluding to sex, and is more of an instance wide thing.

The rule before was unenforced. I think, seeing as this is the biggest comic community, a minimum would be a thread about it with examples of what would and wouldn't be allowed. Idk, maybe I'm asking for too much. It's mainly that we are talking about changes to what type of comic is allowed, which seems major.

I don't really want this place to turn into happy meal comics over time. Thanks for your response though.

[-] dohpaz42@lemmy.world 0 points 1 week ago

This was posted (and reported) before the rule change, and I removed it due to it's non-"family friendly" nature. There were a couple of other posts that I removed for similar reasons. Now, if you would like to repost it with the appropriate NSFW tag, you're welcome to do so now that the rules officially support this content.

[-] Grimy@lemmy.world 0 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

My main point is that family friendly is something you may want but not necessarily the community. The rule wasn't enforced before.

Tagging is essentially the same as removing and not a compromise in my book.

That being said, I get this is a transition period and you guys have better stuff to do. I also think too many Meta threads at once is a bit annoying. I'm hoping we can have a more thorough discussion with everyone's opinion in a dedicated thread at a later date, hopefully with examples so we can give a proper opinion.

Thanks for taking on the responsibility in any case!

[-] EnsignWashout@startrek.website 1 points 1 week ago

Tagging is essentially the same as removing and not a compromise in my book.

Come check out Mastodon sometime, where we also tag movie spoilers, politics, mentions of any medical condition, and eye contact.

There's nothing wrong with eye contact. It makes some people really uncomfortable. So we tag it so that they can filter it.

[-] MyBrainHurts@piefed.ca 2 points 1 week ago

Thanks, much appreciated!

Modding a big community is a herculean effort but needed if we want the fediverse to thrive, so thanks for stepping up to the plate!

[-] Nima@leminal.space 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

"I have decided that beep(at)piefed.world is allowed to stay – with conditions. I have reached out privately to them about their past behavior, and they conveyed that they will respect the rules going forward."

oh cool! i totally trust a poster who posted specifically in bad taste in order to fight with as many people possible to stand by his weird obsessive stance.

i also totally trust the dude that instantly made alt accounts and alt communities just so he could attempt to evade bans and new rules.

I'm so happy to hear he promised this time! that makes such a huge difference!

[-] TheTechnician27@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I don't trust them either given they explicitly disobeyed rules before (which I'm sure hundreds of people pointed out to them, e.g. about post limits), but I can promise you I'll be keeping an eye on what they post here. They won't get the same leeway again, and I think it's a reasonable olive branch by jerkface given that they are able to post good material here when they stick within the rules – and, in my mind, so that the catalyst of the mod transition doesn't steal the spotlight as a singular reason for the transition. This isn't just "/c/comicstrips but beep isn't here", and I think that conveys that message while giving beep plenty of rope, so to speak.

We'll keep them in check, and it won't be a problem again. Rehabilitation where it's possible, and I think it's possible here.

[-] moakley@lemmy.world 0 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Did you end up removing his posts with the altered comics? Or are they still out there to disseminate his inferior versions across the internet?

And just to be clear, I think not banning beep is an idea with no upside.

[-] TheTechnician27@lemmy.world 0 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

The only rule Beep was breaking at the time was the per-day post limit. While cleaning that up would be tedious, it'd still be doable; the main reason we haven't (that I know of) is that those posts are long-since submitted and have hundreds of existing discussions which other users contributed to. The per-day post limit is mainly relevant for new posts, so enforcing that rule as it should've been when they were posted wouldn't really accomplish anything except make a lot of user comments inaccessible. It'd be functionally random, too – starting at the first posts, leaving post n and post n + 1, then removing everything until the next 24 hours after post n, loop until we get to the last post they made before it was upped to 5 and Beep was forced to stop breaking it. (That wasn't your question; just addressing it since it has the more complicated answer.)

As for the altered comics, there was no rule in place at the time that comics need to be unaltered and have attribution. We (at least I) don't do ex post facto rule enforcement. Of the existing reports for posts/comments made before dohpaz42's rule changes, none (that I saw) were for violations of the rules that existed at the time, so the only reports I ended up acting on were the ones that violated Lemmy.World's terms of service.

[-] moakley@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

That makes sense for allowing beep to stay. I still don't think it's the right move given the extreme level of bad faith in which he operated, but ok, you guys are making a point about objectivity. Rules shouldn't apply ex post facto to members of the community.

However. Rules should and typically do apply ex post facto to content. If I dig up an old comic with the word "fuck" in it that was never removed, would you remove it now that curse words are allowed? Or would you say there's no current rule against it, so it stays?

I'm sure it would stay. Common sense wins out in that case, just as it should in the other case.

The point of having rules around content isn't to punish users who break the rules. It's to shape this place into the community we want it to be. If we want it to be a community that respects artists, then we need to remove the content that's so blatantly and aggressively disrespectful to artists.

Posts that broke the per-day rule or the old NSFW rule aren't harming anyone. But these posts that are an intentional perversion of a creator's art, removing their name and in some cases surreptitiously modifying the content of the picture, are passively harming those artists every day that they exist in this community. You're leaving them out there to be found and disseminated, to supercede the artist's original work.

I seriously doubt the community values artist integrity less than "hundreds of existing discussions" about what an asshole the poster is, so I think this should be a pretty easy stance to take.

[-] i_stole_ur_taco@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 week ago

Welcome new mods!

Hold onto your butts.

[-] nocturne@slrpnk.net 1 points 1 week ago

The first thing I want to say is this: for the time being, I have decided that beep is allowed to stay

That is disappointing to hear.

[-] TheMinions@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 week ago

I think if you follow the rules as they’ve been laid out now, you should be allowed to stick around.

Previously the rule requiring a source or attribution link was not a rule.

While I don’t agree with Beep’s public POV on how website links for the artists are equivalent to an advertisement, it wasn’t against the rules. Just kind of rude.

If they’re willing to follow the rules now, they can stay. It’s that easy.

[-] floquant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 week ago

Also holy sheet what happened to not feeding the trolls? The whole thing was obvious bait and so many people took it

[-] spankinspinach@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 week ago

Welcome mods! Looking forward to an active mod team, thanks for taking on the challenge!

Kudos, dohpaz, on the call about beep. The ban hammer is an easy out; I think this shows a lot of integrity and a considered approach to a controversial situation.

[-] slazer2au@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

.llɐ ʎɐp'פ

[-] breadsmasher@lemmy.world -3 points 1 week ago

beep is allowed to stay

well fuck this community then. Didnt realise mods of a comic community would be ok with a user continuing to use ai slop comics, and strip author attribution.

[-] Micromot@piefed.social 2 points 1 week ago

Well they explicitly said they won't allow doing that...

[-] floquant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 week ago

Why are you subbed to a comic community if you can't read?

[-] Bloomcole@lemmy.world -5 points 1 week ago

GREAT NEW MODS FIRST THING THEY DO IS REMOVE MY COMMENTS AND LEAVE AWFUL ZIONIST GENOCIDER COMMENTS ALONE.

THE HASBARA RATS HAVE INFILTRATED LEMMY

[-] Goferking0@ttrpg.network 0 points 1 week ago

They're going through old posts even to randomly remove comments

https://lemmy.world/modlog/31408

[-] Harvey656@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

Personally only removed comments that vehemently broke the rules, the most obvious rule broken was rule 1. We got through the mod log and likely wont be removing any old posts or comments at this point.

[-] dohpaz42@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

You are correct. When I was given mod, there were over 600 reports that needed to be addressed. At the time I removed that post, the rules were not yet changed to allow NSFW content. So I removed it based on the original rules. If you would like to repost it now, you're more than welcome to do so.

[-] Bloomcole@lemmy.world -1 points 1 week ago

IDK how they did it but they have removed the messages that my comments were removed from the modlog!
WTF is going on?

[-] Harvey656@lemmy.world 0 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Have you tried the report button? There were plenty of reports for you, none from you that I saw.

[-] Bloomcole@lemmy.world -3 points 1 week ago

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.

[-] Harvey656@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

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.

[-] Bloomcole@lemmy.world -1 points 1 week ago

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?

[-] Harvey656@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

To my untrained eye, looks like the person is asking for love not hate. Ther wordage isnt perfect but not thay bad.

[-] Bloomcole@lemmy.world -1 points 1 week ago

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.

[-] Harvey656@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

I don't even know what half of that means.

[-] Bloomcole@lemmy.world -1 points 1 week ago

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 don’t 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 they’re humans"

So is that your alt account or what?

[-] Harvey656@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

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.

[-] Bloomcole@lemmy.world -1 points 1 week ago

you can mod all you want, just not with double standards, you're biased dude. Plane and simple

[-] deliriousdreams@fedia.io 4 points 1 week ago

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.

[-] Bloomcole@lemmy.world -1 points 1 week ago

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.

[-] deliriousdreams@fedia.io 1 points 1 week ago

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.

[-] Bloomcole@lemmy.world -1 points 1 week ago

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

[-] deliriousdreams@fedia.io 1 points 1 week ago

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.

[-] Bloomcole@lemmy.world -1 points 1 week ago

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

[-] Nurse_Robot@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

*plain. Also, if you're not just trolling, you should get offline for a while.

[-] 18107@aussie.zone 2 points 1 week ago

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.

[-] Bloomcole@lemmy.world -2 points 1 week ago

"you talk like a fascist" and "you seem like a psycho" is following rule 1 (Be nice)? LOL

[-] 18107@aussie.zone 2 points 1 week ago

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.

[-] Bloomcole@lemmy.world -2 points 1 week ago

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

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