I’ve had issues with with FlyingSquid in the past. I ended up switching to a new instance because Lemmy.world is overflowing with douchebags.
It is the cycle of life
- Mods are power tripping I hate this
- I’m gonna make my own community with decent moderation
- Jesus Christ these users are the worst thing I’ve ever seen, just a bunch of racism and spam and it never stops
- That’s it if anyone gets out of line they’re fuckin banned, I don’t have time for this thing which has become a part time job and it never stops and everyone on all sides is always mad at me
- Cry some more I don’t care
- “Mods are power tripping I hate this”
(That is not even taking into account where someone is being a transparent dickbag and then whining when they get moderated for it, which I suspect is what’s going on here and why they don’t want to go into any details)
Hey I’m developing something related but I have no extensive experience moderating. Any advice I can note?
This is more of a theory than anything I’ve tried in practice, but I think “go ugly early” might be good advice in moderation as it is in marathons. If someone’s being a dickbag just get rid of them. Temp ban for dickbaggery, perm ban for consistent or unrepentant dickbaggery.
It seems like a lot of the mods try to dress it up in this elaborate system of rules and procedures like they’re only implementing the will of the great magnet, and they have no personal stake in anything. Just ban the dicks and people will either agree with your judgement on it or they won’t. But it seems, just from my observations, like trying to dress it up in a fig leaf of impartiality doesn’t really fool anybody.
Okay, so you’re saying its best to just have moderators you trust as people so they can make swift decisions, otherwise it just becomes impractical. If people don’t like it, they should migrate to a community with different moderators.
Lazy link to another discussion so we all have to figure out WTF you’re trying to say. Booo.
If you’re trying to say something, say it.
You made a new account to complain nobody else is solving your problem. If you don’t like the moderation in a community, start your own community. If you don’t like the moderation on an instance, start your own instance. That’s the beauty of federation. Lemmy is so small right now, everyone will see your new community and if they like the content they will participate
What are you doing about it? If you want something to change, then take it upon yourself rather than complain to others that “this needs to change”. That’s your red wagon, baby.
Somebody doooo something!
I have, I block users, communities, and instances.