Seems like everything is set

  • new community
  • new mods
  • activity on the community

How do people feel about getting [email protected] ? Mods over there don’t really seem cooperative, but it’s not like it matters that much now?

  • @[email protected]English
    6•1 month ago

    I absolutely knew this was coming. I held onto this comment exchange specifically because I knew they would drop the hammer-

    How this is anything other than a threat, when said by someone with authority, I’ll never know. As far as whether or not it’s harassment, I can’t see the one you did link, but if you called them a name, then that’s definitely not okay. However, I will add that as a mod, if you get asked a question in public and don’t reply to it, you can absolutely expect the commenter to keep asking it. That isn’t harassment so much as it’s expected human behavior.

    Part of being a mod is agreeing to deal with even the most insistent, possibly annoying people. It’s not against the rules to be insistent or annoying, so you really need either the patience of a school teacher, or the rigid clenched fist of an authoritarian. My go-to move was, anytime someone annoyed me in such a way that I felt I couldn’t answer without overstepping, I’d flag a different moderator and ask them to respond. You don’t have to actually engage if you’re worried someone will raise your blood pressure. That’s why you need a team. And communciation!

    • Blaze (he/him)OPEnglish
      5•1 month ago

      but if you called them a name

      The post was called “Delusional mod rule”, not sure if that qualifies as a name in this case

      • @[email protected]English
        6•1 month ago

        Oh I remember that!

        Oof. Yeah. Well, I feel like this was probably a PTB sitch but also one we could easily see coming. They can’t have you commenting in their domain and showing people the mistakes they made.

        In the meantime, I haven’t seen them comment on what happened publically and not receive a ton of displeasure from the crowd. Any particularly loud voices are going to be targeted anyway they can be, and yours, being that you posted to YPTB (where they were again flamed in the comments) is an easy one to single out.

          • @[email protected]English
            5•1 month ago

            Yes! This is exactly the thing. So if that user was like, more online, they might have followed those mods around asking them to answer this post. Then, they would have banned them for harassment, since they were following the mods around, and that would “solve” them never answering the big post.

            • @[email protected]
              5•1 month ago

              Oh I’m on and watching. Just watching for now.

              (I work from home and have a LOT of monitors in my office, so a single browser is easy peasy)

              Edited to add: I’ll be following up in the very same thread BTW. Just giving them a full day.

          • @[email protected]
            4•1 month ago

            They asked, I obliged.

            I’m just glad I started with the quoted part, or it would have been an even longer comment without a reply!

            Though I never expected an actual response anyway.

              • @[email protected]
                5•1 month ago

                Here’s the thing - I’m on Lemmy a lot throughout the day, but I mostly just browse and upvote.

                I like blahaj, was going to sign up there actually, but I think db0 is more aligned to me, so I’m staying here. That said, 196 was a fun, silly place to go to when I’m feeling overloaded/stressed/whatever, and its really pleasant to know it was a hate-free space. Just a little comfort spot of ridiculousness.

                I’m only commenting a lot now because they are willing to let hate in (whether they realize that or not did not and does not matter). I’m glad to see so many others took issue in the same way.