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submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) by sunaurus@lemm.ee to c/meta@lemm.ee

Hey folks!

This is a quick notice about a change to our moderation policy.

We have had a policy on lemm.ee for administration and federation nearly since the very beginning. This policy has also always included a section about moderator responsibilities. Today, we have made two changes to this policy:

  1. The policy has been renamed to Policy for administration, moderation, federation - this is to make it clear that the policy is also relevant for mods
  2. We have introduced a new responsibility for moderators, they must "Ensure that they only provide accurate and clear reasons for mod actions".

The reason for the addition is that mod log actions federate out to other instances, and are more or less permanent (due to how Lemmy and federation works right now). This means that users do not really currently have any easy way to clarify or defend themselves against inaccurate accusations in the mod log.

As always, I am very grateful to all mods for your efforts in building awesome communities on lemm.ee. I hope you can understand why this new policy is necessary - I do not want to make your lives more difficult, the goal is to just try and reduce any mod log related misunderstandings in the future.

Thank you for reading and have a nice day!

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[-] db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 42 points 6 months ago
[-] JackGreenEarth@lemm.ee 12 points 6 months ago

This is a good change, thanks.

[-] JakenVeina@lemm.ee 9 points 6 months ago

Best instance continues to set the bar.

[-] Navarian@lemm.ee 9 points 6 months ago

Great work as always, will make sure to be concise as possible in the future with mod log reasonings, should I need to!

Cheers lemm.ee team.

[-] Vespair@lemm.ee 6 points 6 months ago

Good guy admin, good good instance ๐Ÿ‘

[-] Wanderer@lemm.ee 5 points 6 months ago

Lemmy is beginning to get overly moderated so I think being clear on why comments are getting deleted is a great way to avoid mod abuse.

I'm a big believer in freedom of speech and how ideas are changed through open and honest discourse for the betterment of mankind. It's a true ideal of the internet and the world at whole.

I hope this instance remains as free an open as possible and avoids the mod abuse. Even if that brings us some discomfort.

I know support is usually quiet and complaints are voiced. As such I just wanted to voice my support. Thank you.

[-] Blaze@reddthat.com 3 points 6 months ago
[-] StaySquared@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago
[-] JohnnyEnzyme@lemm.ee 1 points 6 months ago

Can I have my community back, please?

https://lemm.ee/post/31540584

[-] exocrinous@startrek.website -2 points 6 months ago

Hey, so is abuse of the modlog by admins and mods on remote instances going to lead to defederation?

this post was submitted on 10 May 2024
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