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submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by MightBe@lemmy.world to c/politics@lemmy.world

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.

My goal is to foster thoughtful discussion in our community, and not let this place be a replica of r/politics.

First order of business, immediate rule change.

On !politics@lemmy.world, effectively immediately, we will no longer restrict political discussion to the politics of the United States of America. Discussion regarding of the state of politics from around the world is now welcome.

I will leave this pinned for 1-2 weeks for our team to take feedback and make our proposals then.

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[-] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 1 points 10 months ago

What are your plans about stepping in in the future? When my comments were disappearing and no one deleted their comments, one of your admins was pretty aggressive and also seems to have been lying about what can and can't happen on the admin side. I don't have trust in you guys right now and as I said, your first comment's tone was pretty shitty here as well. I would prefer not to start up the shitjustworks politics community, but as you can tell, I'm ready to go if I have to. TBF, it probably wouldn't be a threat to you or the others anyway. But why do you guys care so much about being the biggest or only one to go to? It's odd. The defensiveness and aggressiveness don't fit and aren't necessary.

[-] jordanlund@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

Disappearing comments is what started this whole drama in the first place. Someone disagreed with Yobucks, had their comment removed, then reached out to me in a PM going "Hey, why was my comment removed?"

I told them the truth, I wasn't involved, but I'd look into it.

Found the comment was removed, but looking at the modlog, nobody had reported it, which was odd. Generally we don't just remove comments unless someone reports them.

Then I looked at the message chain, saw the problematic comments by the other mod and put 2+2 together and hit up the admins going "Hey, I think this one is out of my league..."

This is why groups of this size have multiple moderators. If you feel you're being treated unfairly, reach out to someone else. If you feel the entire mod team is dumping on you, a) there might be a reason for that, but also b) that's where the Admin team comes in.

I haven't seen the reddit style problem of an entire mod team being out of control. I hope we NEVER reach that point.

[-] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works -2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Thanks for explaining that. That's why I'm weirded about the lemmy world admins, that's what happened to me from them. They then show a thread where the original comment was changed. I trust you guys, not the lemmy world admins. I think you guys have been and could continue to be doing a great job and then they can come in and change whatever on a whim, like they just did. I really liked this community and the way you ran it, sad to go.

Edit: When I say "just did", I mean how they changed a comment and then linked to it as evidence with the entire attitude of a troll. The mod being removed seemed justified.

[-] MoistWanted@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago

Instead of complaining for 8 (!) hours maybe put your money where your mouth is, block this instance and focus on your own community.

Like someone else pointed out nobody is forcing you to be here 🥱

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