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I just gotta say, the moderation here makes me so happy I joined this instance.
Ditto.
Same! I moved over from lemmy.one, and was re-creating my block lists when I discovered that lemmy.world had already defederated from hexbear. So that saved me like 40 blocklist entries right there! Good job, admins!
This is an admin thing, some mods are still all over the place on this instance.
Do you have any examples?
!world
From the sidebar:
Then you find a top post removed with the reason of mediabiasfactcheck, for a source with no fact check fails and a slight "center right" orientation.
Meaning: no rules.
Not sure who redacted that, but it allows any arbitrary decision.
!politicalmemes
From the sidebar, rule 2:
A lot of comments removed with a reason of "rule 2", even when including multiple links to support the claims made. After I got one of those, I tried replying to some comments by providing sources for the claims they made, while citing the rule. My comments were left alone, the parent comments got deleted for reason "rule 2". At no point any mod actually asked to provide sources, clearly didn't check the ones provided.
Personally, I've left (blocked) that whole community.
I get mod overload, I get different communities with different rules, but these handwavy approaches that allow misapplication of one's own rules, don't lead to anything good.
If I look through the modlog, I don't see the particular post you mention, could you maybe elaborate on which post you mean?
I disagree with the statements that that means "No rules", it just means that sometimes a technical rule violation doesn't warrant a removal of a post. There is no world in which rules are perfectly complete for every edge case and no "arbitrary" decision ever need to be made.
I'm actually a mod for politicalMemes. If I look through the modlog, I don't see many instances of comments / posts being removed for rule 2. So could you please specify which removals you are referring to?
Yeah... I've been looking through the modlog, and can't find neither that, nor the politicalmemes ones. I think it was about a week or two ago, so it's not easy to parse (or maybe I'm doing it wrong).
If it's supposed to mean that, why not just write that? Or, instead of "rules", maybe call it "guidelines", if they're supposed to be interpreted on a case by case basis.
I think it is pretty clear that the case-by-case statement means that there is some flexibility in the rules. But I will consult with the other moderators of politicalMemes to see if they think changing is necessary.
bro im a leftist and i dont understand
how people who dont live in the Levant
need to comment on these local issues
Why shouldn't people comment on international affairs?
It seems reasonable to condemn both terrorism and genocide.
The current landscape is a product of foreign parties drawing the map.
The US props up Israel, who in turn have propped up Hamas to justify their treatment of Palestine.
The bulk of the middle east has some stake in this issue for one reason or another.
Because people who don't live in the Levant caused these issues 80 years ago, and actively fund it today
I don't understand
Why people need
Huge line breaks
Between each statement