i tend to be too optimistic on the timelines in which we get things done, especially when they are moderation related. we have just published an official update on the current situation: https://lemmy.world/post/36621226
should we just purge all mods of LW communities because someone says so? we don't arbitrarily remove mods without a proper review. it's not the action of removing someone that requires time but the review whether it should be done.
jordan has been removed from our community team several days ago and we're still reviewing further stuff to determine additional actions to take.
there is no clear date to put on this other than my previous comment about it taking several days, as this is all shitty work that takes time and is not something that anyone is looking forward to do. it's obviously our responsibility to review an act in situations like this, but there is only so much time available from volunteers. i'm hoping that we can finalize it this weekend, as weekends tend to be when people have more time available.
there have been multiple voices within our team, as well as from Ruud, to simply strip his moderator permissions from all communities, but this is not something aligning with our rules, especially as this specific part was established after the c/vegan drama some time ago. there are multiple reasons justifying removal of moderators from LW communities, but if we apply them we need to ensure that we have proper justification for that, for every affected community, which is the main thing that is currently still being worked on. i expect that we will find valid justifications for at least some communities, but we need to do this before the removal.
the actions taken so far were primarily relating to his behavior while being a member of our team, not due to his behavior as a community moderator or regular user, as we intend to hold our team to higher standards than regular users or moderators, making this a lot easier to justify.
it's not as much about the removal of those comments being the issue in and of itself for us currently, but that this is being done by a person in his position. we haven't really been enforcing any special rules for moderator behavior on LW in the past (hence also currently considering a mod CoC), but having a member of our team incorrectly accusing people of lying and spreading misinformation on their own, even after seeing arguments for why he's in the wrong is very much a step too far. i wasn't directly involved in the discussion back then, so i don't know the entire message history, but it was my understanding that he would at least stop with those claims, if he wasn't able to apologize for it.
there were several recent reports, including private ones. also, just because you may not see something, it doesn't mean that nothing is happening. we have already discussed topics like the Canadian politics one with him in the past, as we also don't consider it acceptable what he did back then.
we have started looking into reports about jordan a few days ago, and we have already identified several occasions where he has been acting in ways that we don't consider to be acceptable for a member of our community team. it may still take us a few more days to come to final conclusions for how we will proceed with this, as this is something that needs time for a proper review and discussions within the team. we all have lives outside of lemmy, where we need and want to spend our time, and something like this takes hours to properly review.
one of the things we have already discussed will be establishing an internal CoC for community team members and people higher up in the team, which includes ensuring that we keep a certain level of professionalism in our interactions, even if another party doesn't. we're obviously all humans, but that doesn't mean we don't have responsibility for our actions, especially if it's not a one-off thing. we will also consider if this may be something to establish for community moderators in general, but for now our primary focus is on people in positions above a regular user or moderator.
hello,
based on your other post, which has since been removed by moderators of that community, it seems that you are looking for the !perchance@lemmy.world community instead of this one.
you're not going to have much luck here, as here people won't even understand what you're talking about.
unfortunately it's still not finished, but we have an update here now: https://lemmy.world/post/36621226