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True, and upvoted btw, but then all the more reason to remove comments and ultimately even ban people if need be (for repeated and/or more egregious offences), not out of any unfriendliness and rather our of a desire to fulfill the very intent of this community, even when people just passing by refuse to bother to read the rules.
If people are turned off by enforced positivity, they are welcome to block the community, but less welcomed to ignore the needs of any community that simply wants to exist in peace.
Similarly there are women-only spaces, and LGBTQIA+ spaces, etc. where the needs of people just passing by are treated as being of considerably less value than those inside of it, who just want a moment to breathe without having to justify their existence to someone else who refuses to understand, or even someone who is legitimately "just asking questions", but like... do that at another time, in some other place, you know?
(I can't see the report queue so am speaking entirely theoretically here and could be missing something from that context. We both seem to be in agreement that it is good to be kind, just differing on how to enact that i.e. who needs it more, in this space.)
Enforcement is the bigger issue than the rule, too. Immediate removal/banishment is too heavy handed. I personally rather dislike how uncommon it is for a written warning to be given for a first time minor offense. A polite reminder of the rules (maybe as a pinned comment on bigger, active posts) is better than immediate mod action that generally also comes with zero communication. And if you do a removal, telling the user why goes a long way.
Also good to keep in mind that there's a lotta anarchists here on Lemmy and I can only assume they, like I do, don't really like authority so even a simple and justified mod action can be perceived harsher here. Shit, just look at all the mod drama comms! 🤣
In the end, I just want what everyone, users and mods, would agree is fair.
Immediate banishment does sound fairly harsh, but I thought was not even under discussion. Immediate removal is another thing, which I perceive more neutrally. If the offence is egregious enough that the person flagrantly violating the rules is practically daring the mods to ban them (this does happen, OFTEN!) then I can definitely see scenarios where this is warranted. Otoh even a casual string of comments that are negatively oriented might rather be dealt with via a message (DM? public reply to one of the comments?) - it all depends on their severity, and on the maturity of the mods, and how resilient the community is. This community seeking to provide a safe haven... yeah, this one I could see immediate removal being far more common than usual.
Of course, Lemmy does not notify anyone of comments being removed, so that's another wrinkle in all of this. Someone finding out months to years later that some of their content was removed has a different feel to it than receiving a notification, especially if an explanation is offered along with that. Lemmy really is so primitive in so very many ways (though I don't think that either PieFed or Mbin offer such notifications either, so this is more an issue affecting the entire Threadiverse), that what would be most ideal typically very much takes a backseat to what the tools will allow to be done.
"Don't comply in advance" is advice that I hear a lot these days. I really don't think that a community called "Uplifting News" is going to end up in e.g. yepowertrippingbastards for daring to remove - gasp! - comments that contain strong negativity? If that is what the rules of the community asks for, then it is functioning as advertised, leaving people entirely free to either participate or not, and someone who does not even so much as bother to read the rules may feel put out, but should not really expect much sympathy from the Threadiverse community at large when it is they that violated the rules, and the mods who upheld exactly what they said (in advance!) they would do?
Anarchy does not mean that there are never any rules anywhere, and in fact afaik quite the opposite in promoting for people to be more rather than less cognizant about their behavior and in particular how it affects others... even if only out of a selfish desire to not have any potential consequences wrap back around to affect themselves?
Personally, I use Photon Lemmy and enable the option to send a message when doing mod actions by default
How does it deliver them - as DMs?
yeah that's what i meant by message
Thank you for doing that:-)