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This is a community in the spirit of "Am I The Asshole" where people can post their own bans from lemmy or reddit or whatever and get some feedback from others whether the ban was justified or not.

Sometimes one just wants to be able to challenge the arguments some mod made and this could be the place for that.


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Context:

The article in question was well sourced, factually accurate, and written by a well-renowned author and journalist whose work appears elsewhere too, regardless of which outlet published it.

Nonetheless, Jordan Lund is once again blindly trusting a pro-zionist conservative outlet masquerading as a bias and fact checker that nothing from anywhere that criticizes the fascist apartheid regime can be reliable 🤦

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago) (1 children)

No worries. I think a lot of the problem is that people don't know how moderation works.

We don't hang out in the group waiting to pounce on posts looking to fuck with people. Well, I shouldn't say "we", I don't do that. :)

There's a queue of reports and it looks like this:

So when I look at reports, it's a matter of "is this true?"

Going to the politics community, I searched for "ICE detention" and sorted by "New". Boom, there it was #1 and #2, two posts with the same thumbnail, one 6 hours old, one 7 hours old.

Same thumbnail doesn't necessarily mean anything, same link? Yeah, same link.

Here's where it gets tricky:

Which one do you remove? The knee jerk is "Well, duh, the newer one." But in this case, the newer one has more upvotes for some reason.

At that point, I looked at the comments, the newer one had more upvotes, but fewer comments. One of them needs to go, I picked that one. If it had had more upvotes AND more comments, I'd have kept it with a note on the other as "removed for duplicate and lower community engagement."

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Thanks for a detailed and well-explained reply. I understand. A lot of the problem seems that being questionable often enough that everything is sus. It can be corrected with diligence and determination on the moderators' parts. Which is simple, but not necessarily easy.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

It's easier when there's not a lot in the queue. I've had times where I wake up in the morning and there are 20+ or 30+ unresolved reports and I'm like "Oh, what fresh hell is this?"

Generally it's either:

  1. A troll being reported over and over, resolve it once and it resolves all of them.

or 2) Two people getting into an internet slap fight, arguing back and forth and reporting all the other persons comments.

At that point, I go up the chain, find the last rational comment one of them made, keep that, nuke the rest and ban them both for 24 hours. Too much of modding is like parenting siblings. "I don't CARE who started it, you're BOTH grounded."

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

I understand that too. It's a thankless job, not to mention unpaid. I try to give everyone benefit of the doubt, even if I'm not personally fond of them. I try to merit individual comments, rather than memorable comment history. There are exceptions, but they have to work extra hard to get there, or is a moment of human fallibility. At any rate, thanks for detailed replies.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 10 hours ago

And if someone wants to be RUDE about it, THAT'S when I put on the PTB hat and go "Fuck you, I don't have to explain shit!" ;)