Hi there.

A short introduction: This is an alt account. I’m a moderator here who has been unhappy with the state of news/political discussions here for a long time. The admins have kindly given me the opportunity to see if we can make some improvement the community here.

We will be doing some major revision of the rules left by the previous moderators and will use discussions in this thread as feedback on the direction we should take our community.

This will be an open discussion on the state of our community, the rules and our moderation practices. Feel free to give your inputs.

  • Quokka@quokk.au
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    11 months ago

    This does not sit well with me.

    A shadowy figure, who hides their own account has taken over the community?

    We’re going back to reddit powermod drama at this rate.

    Anyone know of some good alternative news communities? I’m happy to switch over asap.

      • stmcld@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        11 months ago

        Is that why he’s spamming !politics@lemmy.ml with US internal news lately? The place has been terrible to navigate now.

        I just find it ironic that the mods here implemented a rule that forbids spamming of posts by one person. Then this former mod? goes on to do exactly that at !politics@lemmy.ml

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          11 months ago

          jordanlund and YoBuckStopsHere are terrible mods who have a complete lack of communication with the rest of the mod team.

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            11 months ago

            Yes that’s true, i noticed that too. But that community is for world news, not just US news.

            I mean i understand posting about US news a few times, but he is flooding the community twice a day with between maybe 10 to 15 posts all about US internal news. I might be over- or underestimating but I’m not going to go back to count.

            It’s been horrible, he’s been flooding the zone with shit ever since he’s been demodded here.

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      11 months ago

      I’ve been trying to get the other lemmy.ml worldnews mods to tone down their moderation on that community under the principle that if someone’s comment is offensive, they should get called out for it instead of having their comments immediately removed. We’ll see what happens lol

      • intelshill@lemmy.ca
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        11 months ago

        Good luck, I want to dunk on the racist comments but they get removed before I can.

    • Lee Duna@lemmy.nz
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      11 months ago

      Anyone know of some good alternative news communities? I’m happy to switch over asap.

      Beehaw.org but its server is based in the US, and lemmy.ml but you know…

    • Might Be@lemmy.worldOP
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      11 months ago

      You give me too much credit.

      Check the amount of abuse Jordan Lund has gotten recently from spam accounts on our site modlog, and you should understand why I choose to make an alt instead. Among other reasons, of course.

      • Quokka@quokk.au
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        11 months ago

        It’s the Internet, you’ll get death threats and abuse for posting a cat gif or saying you enjoy pineapple on pizza.

        At the end of the day, these are anonymous accounts and you’ve gone beyond even that and it’s concerning.

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      11 months ago

      Hiding their main account and modding from an alt account is a choice they made because their main user name includes the name of an IP neither they, nor lemmy, have the legal right to use in a professional setting.

      Using an alt is to limit liability, not to hide anything. It’s a good idea. We don’t want anyone to get sued because a username rose to prominance.