I think it’s important to discuss the state of the community every now and then - feedback for mod behaviour, what’s going wrong, what’s going right, what news is interesting, what news is boring, what should there be more of, what should there be less of.
Mods feel free to remove this post if it violates rules, but I think it’s an important discussion to have.
Mods are a bit too trigger happy on the libs sometimes. Many are just uninformed and don’t necessarily have bad intentions. This person getting banned seemed uneccessary. Having a discussion with these people would be more beneficial as long as they don’t resort to using slurs.
One of not many properly moderated communities on lemmy.ml.
It is somewhat opaque how sometimes the rules apply and sometimes they don’t, like news sources on rule 1, and iirc rule 3 in general. Deleting content should have the mod informing the user and the rest community what happened and have a way for the users to manage mistakes, be it either accidental rule breaks by the user or wrongful modding.
This is a good point and we’ll take it under consideration. Unfortunately, sometimes we do have to make a judgement call, but if there are any particular cases you’d like to discuss please mention them here.
A lot of people here are USA propaganda zombies. We should use sarcasm to drive them away
Seems pretty civil and highbrow to me, other than the occasional incursion from certain large instances.
Keep it up
This community’s mods are rather nice imo
They don’t argue in the comments and ban people for disagreeing - they serve much more as a moderator than as a user with moderator powers, if that makes sense. Better than some other communities (lemmy.world) for that reason alone.
Don’t need to agree with their moderation stance to appreciate them respecting the ideals of separation of concerns. Moderators should not be able to argue so strongly in comments and ban other users because the mod got pissy and lost an argument.
The mods there argue with you and when they cant go on with arguments the ban hammer speaks
That’s what happens on lemmy.world lmao
I can’t remember the last time a mod got into an argument on this community - must have been months ago. I remember there being a few teething pains, but those have clearly been resolved.
Edit: I’m not saying I agree with their liberal use of the banhammer (I think it prevents people from seeing the errors in their opinions because being banned creates an antagonistic environment and likely solidifies their positions), but just look at the comment history of mods on this community: they’re remarkably quiet.
There’s too many boring US/China news stories. Just because an article talks about the US or China (superpowers) does not make it interesting on its own.
Personally I prefer the FT, WSJ, Foreign affairs articles where the ruling class admits things that other outlet don’t e.g. where the “spy balloon” had “surveillance capabilities” i.e. weather surveillance capabilities
This community needs to deal with all the defederated instances. A lot of the time, people from instances that have defederated with each other cannot see each other’s messages on this community despite lemmy.ml being federated with all of them. It’s rather absurd.
