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.
2 of the comments removed were for calling out someone being pro Palestinian genocide and explaining why it was bad what was happening in Gaza. Were those ones you removed cause not good look for who every removed them and not the cause
In the modlog you sent, of the 4 shown that I removed: one had uncensored gore of animals without NSFW tag (A documentary, but nonetheless that needs to be tagged.), one person losing their mind over beep, another telling beep to harm themselves, and another that was charged and another that was mean spirited, and I don’t understand the word, so I played on the safe side.
Edit: The modlog kept going, with more of my stuff in there, but most of these speak for themselves I think.
So one of them already got scrubbed from the mod log, which not a great look either.
Considering this is getting removed, saying what’s actually happening being considered speaking for itself can’t say anything good about the decisions. Of course it’s lemmy world so not at all surprising just disappointed
I’ll bring it up when all the mods finally get together.
Along with the mod log scrubbing?
That might actually just be lemmy, every time I open the mod log I see different things. I’ll look into it as well. I wonder if they disappear when they are undone? Still new to Lemmy mod tools.