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Absolute scumbag. Some of the videos of him getting rocked by random Korean dudes were pretty satisfying, ngl. He's been doing this shit for the past year in Japan, Israel, and now he finally gets his comeuppance. Fucking with the Korean comfort women war memorial was not a wise choice.

Yes, I did see the thread. The main communities mentioned seemed to be NonCredibleDefense and MeanwhileOnGrad.

NCD is a meme community focusing around topics such as military equipment, wars, and geopolitics. They seem to have a generally pro-Western/NATO slant, which sometimes conflicts with the anti-western viewpoints held on some Lemmy servers. Left alone, they would just be posting memes about being sexually attracted to fighter jets. But because a bunch of others on Lemmy believe that such memes indicate that they are fascists and/or sociopaths, occasional drama does arise.

MeanwhileOnGrad is definitely a community that stirs some drama, I can't deny that. They post screenshots of content from lemmygrad and hexbear in order to publicize some of the extreme views that are commonly expressed within those communities. If the target were anyone other than tankies, I would probably have less tolerance for that community. However, in the context of Lemmy, where the devs and most of the original servers are extreme leftists, I am not so sympathetic to accusations of bullying. In my view, the tankie perspective is more than fairly represented already, and MeanwhileOnGrad is simply a healthy counterpoint to the pervasive bullying that is done by tankies to every other Lemmy server.

I believe with this instance the hope is for things to be discussed publicly as much as possible and for decisions to be made with the community. That can mean having tough discussions about how things impact us and it can get messy.

That's the same way we handle things on sh.itjust.works. Having a frank discussion with the community and coming to a consensus. Unfortunately on Lemmy, it seems that every server gets labeled as either tankie or fascist and frequently both, so you're in good company.

100% agree, well said

Hi, I'm sorry that you're having this experience on Lemmy. People on here can be complete assholes for no reason.

I wanted to at least apologize for removing the fediseer endorsement for this instance a couple weeks ago. At the time, I was annoyed because you were voting to defederate my instance, but I also didn't realize that it would send you a notification about it 😕. If I could turn back time I never would have done that.

Anyway, I am not a vegan myself but I support veganism and I can see that you have positive intentions with this instance. I think that it's a valuable space and component of the fediverse and I hope it continues to grow. I hold a great deal of admiration and respect for vegans, especially those who do it for ethical reasons.

I just wish everyone could get along, I'm really sorry that other people are ruining your experience here. Please let me know if any users on sh.itjust.works are harassing you and I will deal with them.

This is unfortunate. Have you looked into setting up some kind of sign-up filter or automod to deal with the spammers?

Yes

Looks pretty good though I never played.

That's definitely fair. Thanks for starting the Agora thread

These are some good points, I can't really disagree with them. Transparency and equal access to information is usually a worthwhile goal.

It's possible that I may be coming from a biased perspective as an admin who can already view modlog and sees this causing plenty of drama down the road, as opposed to purely looking at the pros/cons for an average user. I'm interested to see how the Agora discussion goes.

Yeah I guess. I just feel like a user complaining directly to the mod who removed their post is unlikely to have a productive outcome. It's not likely that the moderator is suddenly going to change their mind and restore it, nor is it likely that the user is going to suddenly decide that the removal was justified. You're probably gonna need a third party to arbitrate anyway.

But I also don't totally disagree, it's definitely worthy of discussion.

Are moderators able to see the public modlog for their own community? Or is the modlog totally anonymous for everyone besides admins?

I'm not sure what the case is, I expected that moderators would be able to view the identity of mod actions in their own communities.

Thanks.

Yeah, I'd have to oppose you on that suggestion. Vigilante justice is rarely effective. It's perfectly functional as is, where users can identify anonymous mod actions that they disagree with, and then raise the issue with other moderators/admins, who can deal with the issue.

Even if users could publicly see the mod names, the proper response is still to contact the admin if you believe the mod is abusing their power. Which you can already do right now. So the only change would be that users would start DMing mods abusively and making meta posts about mod decisions that would ultimately be far more dramatic and far less effective than simply reporting the behavior to the relevant authority (admin or senior mod) and letting them deal with it internally.

Previous comments are spot on.

One thing I would add is that Lemmy is a particularly sensitive case, because we really want to encourage activity and growth at this stage. It pains me when communities without much activity get a meme post or something that makes it into /all and the mods remove it for being off-topic.

Overly strict moderation is one of the fastest ways to drive people away from a platform. Just follow your natural instincts and let people post what they want as long as it's not harming anyone.