If the admins are at some point distracted, or otherwise are unexpectedly removed from their ability to moderate for a time, and comms have no reliable moderators, then everything will be... well, unmoderated. Having active users as moderators, even if they currently don't do much moderating compared to the admins, makes the moderation system as a whole more likely to survive any unforeseen events.
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Yeah, community moderators may also understand the context of the community better. Normal trolls and spammers can be taken care of by anyone, but if there's a derogatory name for a sports team, for example, you need to know the context to understand what's happening.
And in that vein, lots of conflicts can be handled without reaching for the ban hammer. Just having a dedicated person that does the handling is good to have.
It is surely good to occasionally test whether unforeseen events will cause disruption. Do you know how often such a test is performed?
For example, nuclear weapons systems are tested occasionally, and seeing a failure is probably important information.
Giving moderators practice with moderating will probably improve their performance when they are actually needed.
The idea may be to get mods up to speed on moderation so they can take over with time.
Also, given than .ml is the developers' instance, they are likely more focused on Lemmy than most mods are. So, the admins may be more protective because they are on Lemmy more than the mods.
It feels like the moderator mechanism isn’t really needed yet in most communities
How do you read that from the modlog? It doesn't seem show which moderator performed a given action for me...?
There are several front ends for lemmy. Some show more info than others.
Photon.lemmy.ca/modlog
Vs
Lemmy.ca/modlog
For example.
There are a few interfaces along with the Voyager app that show the mod performing the action.
One of the communities I maintained already popped in some really disturbing...content that needed to get removed.
