ID: photo of two friends looking at a phone together, laughing, above is text: “Hitting “delete” after reading the first sentence of an entire essay that some bigoted potato took the time to write in my comments.”

    • @PugJesus
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      341 month ago

      Mod privilege is being able to erase bigots with a click of a button

      Also why good moderation is so important

      • LongLive
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        330 days ago

        I agree, moderation is important.

        How do we keep moderators accountable, so the system continues to function? Is there someone checking them?

        • Peachy [they/them] M
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          430 days ago

          The mod log is entirely visible for anyone to view. Anyone can see who we ban and why, comments we remove and why. Posts have been made in the past about mod action that were effective.

          • @[email protected]
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            129 days ago

            One thing I don’t understand yet is what kind of appeal system is intended on Lemmy if one doesn’t want to resort to ban evasion.

            Do DMs to instance admins still go through?

            • Peachy [they/them] M
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              329 days ago

              I believe so??? Ada’s pretty active on 196 either way. Some people use the report feature on mod comments to get in contact with other mods. If I, for example, was being unfair, reporting me might alert other mods to what I’m doing. I wouldn’t touch a report with me as the subject, but maybe that’s just the good ol autism sensitivity of justice.

            • @[email protected]
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              127 days ago

              Update for DenverCoder9: private messages through Lemmy are not delivered to instance admins when banned site-wide. Best recourse seem to be other means of communication then.

    • @[email protected]OP
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      161 month ago

      I don’t know, don’t think it matters, just substitute delete for block and it works… ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

      • Johanno
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        61 month ago

        Me on reddit, when op deletes his post and I want to answer to a comment…

        • Fonzie!
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          230 days ago

          It wouldn’t be nice if everyone coule delete everyone’s comments and posts, but you can block someone which deletes them from your life and that’s about the same!

          • TʜᴇʀᴀᴘʏGⒶʀʏ
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            230 days ago

            Well I was thinking just deleting comments off your own posts. People would probably be less likely to waste their time being nasty. I agree it isn’t worth the drawbacks though when you can just block- my block list is over 200 lol

    • @[email protected]
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      61 month ago

      BlueSky does I think. Perhaps not exactly, but it lets you remove quotes people made on your posts, or something like that.

    • Gormadt
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      21 month ago

      Honestly I thought it was a “delete my own shitpost” type meme.

      I don’t do a whole of of this whole “social media” thing