Screenshot shows three comments being removed from [email protected] (this community) by one of 196’s mods with the reason for removal being “.” (literally just a period).
I looked into this and discovered that the comments were just some fairly polite, if snarky, comments in response to the mod themselves. I could not identify a reason for comment removal per the site or community rules, so if there was one, “.” doesn’t cut it.
This is a callout post y’all. Do better. Start putting actual moderation reasons into the modlog for the benefit of you and other mods, otherwise what is the point of a transparent and federated platform?
As of now, it looks like the mod involved is just using their mod powers in a self-serving fashion. I am not making that accusation now, but that’s how it looks.
Please and thank you. Mods here do an excellent job keeping 196 on Lemmy a bearable place to be, and I know you are already struggling to staff the positions, but please also hold one another accountable when it comes to misuse of power. Thanks :)
Edit: I kind of regret writing this instead of just talking with the mods, but I'll leave this up so that the replies aren't left without context.
This kind of reminds me of that time someone looked at the mod logs and noticed that someone who got banned for allegedly being transphobic got unbanned and made a mod (the unbanning reason was something like "became a mod"). This was on the last call for mods. I mean, nothing against if the person regretted writing the thing that got them banned, but it's fucking sus that the mods did this without talking with us about what was happening (and nobody fucking knows who the mods are because they never "presented" themselves as mods, they could've just said "hello, my name is X and I'm a new mod", but they never did).
So funny enough, I was the person who banned them like a week before, and it was due to me not following the chain of comments. If you want, I will share the discord mod log where I found out who and any, and double-checked the reality of the situation.
Believe me I don't want transphobes running the biggest community on a trans server. But if every mod saw no issues, and I did, I assumed I was weird. And I was.
Thank you for explaining. It did cross my mind whether or not one of the new mods had went rogue and started making banned accounts as mods. But honestly, I shoud've just talked about my concerns directly with the longtime mods instead of acting entitled and posting comments saying "they shoulduv explained even though no one asked them to explain >:((". I'd like to apologize for it.
Apology fully accepted on my end. I'm not mad at you at all. I don't think anyone else was either. Thank you for reflecting as well.