Seems more efficient to express this kind of guidelines publicly, especially for words as common nowadays as "bro"
I doesn't seem like keeping the approach private would have changed much anyway, you would have reached to someone else, who would have ignored you to see if you were serious with it, then that person would have created a report similar to this one.
What is your setting for "Accept messages from"?
you had asked me directly to clarify my stance again in public, I would have done so gladly.
Do you think that if you had posted "calling me 'bro' on this community is going to get you banned" it would have had a different outcome than what happened?
You can test this yourself: start a private message on piefed.social with someone on a remote server. You won’t get their reply. DMs only work if both parties are on piefed.social.
That's an issue that hasn't been reported yet
@rimu@piefed.social @wjs018@piefed.social @Skavau@piefed.social
But if everybody keeps dogs piling on him and making this worse for him, it’s not going to allow him to see this in any way other than him being bullied. And to be honest, in a certain extent, that will be a correct way of seeing this. I want people to be able to learn from mistakes and grow and be better.
That's nice of you.
Unfortunately in this case, this isn't the first time he's featured in this community, the other post got removed for whatever reason. The only remaining evidence of that is
For example, let’s say I’m talking to somebody in a comment thread. The entire thread can get wiped out if the thread’s OP decides to delete the post, or a moderator removes the post, or a site admin removes the post
Been there too. Somehow now if I see a new account that looks suspicious and the thread is interesting I tend to archive.is it, just as a way to keep valuable comments around
Looks like piefed.social wants to be the new lemmy.world. lmao
A random mod getting power trippy in a community doesn't equate piefed.social wanting to become Lemmy.world
As you're well aware, LW has a power tripping mod on 3 of the 6 most active communities on the whole platform: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/53505862?scrollToComments=true
The mod reported here mostly mods communities where he's the only poster.
Copy pasting my comment from another thread
The biggest exception to this is !movies@piefed.social. Looking through past mod actions, it doesn’t look like they are as strict in that community as with others, so I don’t feel the need to intervene. However, this is a situation that we will keep an eye on going forward.
Just to add to this, I review the mod actions in !movies@piefed.social regularly, if someone sees anything that should be reported, feel free to reach out to me on Matrix (my account is in my bio)
Ah right, it's been a while I last used Alexandrite!
Agree with you. What's the meaning of NIH?
I didn't put you on blast, I provided context of previous events, including the ban reversals.
We are probably going to disagree here, but messaging people about using a word as common as "bro" today and threatening them from a ban if they reiterate doesn't really seem kind or gentle.
Messages sent to users from mods threatening them from being banned should be allowed to be made public, as bans should be related to a rule, and rules should be public.
I've been on the other side of power tripping, on a movies community no less, so wouldn't be so categoric about "stand up for the mod".
https://lemmy.zip/post/25898384?scrollToComments=true
Tl,dr: power tripping mod perma banned me from a community I built, instance admin didn't want to intervene as it was against their admin policy. It took me months to rebuild that community elsewhere, and that's probably why I'm very cautious with power tripping mods since then.
Being a mod on Piefed/Lemmy requires more transparency than on other platforms due to the transparency of the mod actions and the federated nature of the platform.
Users here have choices between several versions of the same community, they will usually avoid the ones where the mods are enforcing what they perceive as arbitrary decisions.
Harassment is never a good thing, but mods are also accountable for their actions.
If you have doubts about how your rules or actions will be perceived, feel free to ask on !fedigrow@lemmy.zip where other mods can discuss it with you.