Edit: Oops, it is /r/Tennessee, not /r/ProgressiveHQ

A screenshot of a poster on Reddit /r/Tennessee trying to post about the election, and a mod removing the post while not really pretending there's a good reason to remove it
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[–] 104 points 10 months ago (37 children)

This is why Reddit is garbage and anyone that still has an account on there is only fueling the fire. Fuck Reddit and their mods

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  • [–] 70 points 10 months ago (4 children)

    Reddit's glory days were when it was big enough to have consistently interesting stuff, especially in the niche subs, but not so big that bad actors (corporatization, foreign influence, domestic partisan bots, hate groups) could enshitify it. Now it's practically unusable.

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  • [–] 14 points 10 months ago (3 children)

    Ice soap and 2AM chili were peak reddit.

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  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago

    I finally left the platform entirely a few months ago, but for a time I maintained an account for discussion on hobby and niche topics. Nothing political, and it would be a real stretch to call any of it controversial. After I got a very dubious account suspension, I just said "fuck it" and moved on.

    Can't say I miss it either. It's a fucking cesspool.

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago

    I get so mad whenever I see a post hating on Reddit, but yet they are still there and making posts. Like wtf, Lemmy is great, a lot more people should’ve migrated here, but it’s like they like the abuse.

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  • [+] -18 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (16 children)

    You think Lemmy is better? Mods here are engaging in the same shitty behaviours. Lack of moderator accountability is a serious issue on this platform.

    Edit: brigading just proves my point, you dumb fucks.

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  • [–] 70 points 10 months ago (5 children)

    Public mod log is a big accountability improvement over the absence of information Reddit has

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  • [–] 47 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

    Remember when the person behind GamingOnLinux decided to leave Lemmy after someone pointed out their community manipulation tactics in the modlog? Something that you have to assume they had been able to get away with as a Reddit mod. They then took to Mastodon or something to complain about how a modlog being public is "bad design".

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  • [–] 7 points 10 months ago* (1 child)

    What kind of agenda would a GamingOnLinux powermod push?

    IMO the biggest flaw is that the mod log doesn't append a copy of the content that was deleted. It allows mods to just straight up lie.

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  • [–] 16 points 10 months ago

    From what I have seen, removed comments definitely are still visible in the modlog. But if the mod just bans the user instead of removing the comment, all the user's comments are automatically removed as a result and are not visible in the modlog. All that said, you are correct, this can be abused by moderators who understand the distinction and take advantage of it.

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  • [–] [S] 24 points 10 months ago* (2 children)

    I absolutely have observed mods on Lemmy engaging in the same shitty behaviors (I am sitting on a post about a little cabal of !progressivepolitics@lemmy.world people who seem to be trying to rig the discourse in a particular direction to meet their electoral goals). But the simple fact of it being less centralized and more transparent (and with more of a culture of effective pushback against the mods) makes it a lot harder. They can't just say "lol get fucked" like the mod from this post did and have that be the end of the story.

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  • [–] 9 points 10 months ago

    I’ve seen the mod in that community delete comments that simply disagreed with them or called out their deletions. It’s always “harassment” or something no matter how polite people are being.

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  • [–] 18 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    Honestly yes, I have not had much problems with mods (and admins!) deleting the words I've taken time out of my day to write.

    Free Luigi Mangione!

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  • [+] 12 points 10 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 child)
  • [–] 8 points 10 months ago

    As part of the LW Community Team, I've tried to combat this in a couple ways.

    One is that when we need moderators for a community I don't just put up a post that says "who wants to mod?" Instead I try to draft specific individuals one at a time who are relevant to that community.

    You wouldn't believe how many people just tell me no. They have time to post to Lemmy a dozen times a day, but they just don't have time to mod c/threepostsaweek

    The other is that I try not to just keep recruiting mods we already have. It's very easy to turn to the people already doing the modding and ask them to pick up just one more, but we've seen what that has done to Reddit, and I'd rather not repeat it.

    But all this takes time and effort, and it doesn't seem to have much effect yet. I probably just need to keep at it.

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  • [+] -26 points 10 months ago (12 children)

    I hope you realize Lemmy is just as bad, maybe even worse

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  • [–] 22 points 10 months ago (10 children)

    We have MAGA mods suppressing voter turnout?

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  • [–] 0 points 10 months ago* (6 children)

    We have .ml propaganda blaming our only hope of resistance for everything the Nazis do.

    It's not much different from the projection tactic the GOP use. Just in this case it's "you didn't stop it".

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  • [–] -2 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    That's fair.

    There's also a handful of users on other instances that love bashing the dems for not being left enough or something. These are just a few nutters, not really moderators pushing agendas.

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  • [+] -12 points 10 months ago* (2 children)

    Because obviously only MAGA can be bad people. Yeepee China and Russian number one!

    /s needed because we’re on Lemmy

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  • [–] 10 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    I'm not sure if you're American, but for me as an American Maga impacts my life many times more than china or Russia so maga's evil is far more relevant in my life. But either way you are doing a lot of whataboutism.

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