So yeah… maybe the turtle slowly waking up that he was just a Laptog for reddit and thrown away as soon as they didnt need him anymore ( moderation is allways a volunteer thing and shouldnt be like a 2nd job ).
So yeah… maybe the turtle slowly waking up that he was just a Laptog for reddit and thrown away as soon as they didnt need him anymore ( moderation is allways a volunteer thing and shouldnt be like a 2nd job ).
Should platforms like kbin/lemmy/etc have limits to how many magazines/categories a single user can moderate?
Wouldn’t this just encourage alt accounts to get around the rule? You’re only hiding it with sockpuppets instead of allowing it to happen transparently.
I still think it’s a good idea. You can create alts to get around bans for instance, but it’s a powerful mod tool nonetheless. Most people will see the rule and stop there, and if they don’t then it’s a good way to justify an IP ban for repeat offenders.
As an aside, the thought of the kind of person that would break rules so that they can provide extra unpaid labor makes me queasy.
You could do it per email address, at least on platforms where your account is tied to one. Doesn’t stop it, but if you’re only allowed to mod 5 communities, you’d need a lot of sock puppet emails to mod 1000+.
If you own a domain, it’s trivial to set up a catch-all redirect to your real email address. I, for example, have this account linked to [email protected]. With the maximum length of an email address being 254 characters and the “lemmy_world_” and “@example.com” parts taking up 24 characters, I could create up to 350! - 1 (yes, that’s a factorial) more usernames, each linked to a corresponding unique address. (Well, give or take any limits Lemmy imposes on username length, anyway.)
Ban example.com gg ez
They can’t do that because they can’t necessarily tell the difference between the personal domain of one person and one providing email addresses to multiple people.
Its easier than you think. Email is pretty consolidated around a few big players these days which means about 10 minutes of work querying the database for how many accounts will be impacted and a quick Google to find out what the domain is used for is all you need to decide whether to ban it or not.
We used to do this on IRC quite often before we could even just Google it.
If the admin find out they can then take action
It would still hamper their effectiveness as a powermod even though it won’t completely stop them.
Yes , 5 max maybe 10 thats it.
I would even allow as high as 25, but probably an amount that can be controlled by the instance. But we should stop these 1000+ communities controlled by one mod.
Given what Lemmy and kbin fundamentally are, open source federations, this can’t be done, at least not universally. Instances will set their own rules and other instances cannot directly set those rules. It is impossible to enforce this.
That said, it makes sense for instances to set similar rules, and tools to help are a good idea.
Its not really possible. Just open a new community on another instance
Reddit was always flawed in that reddit mod ranks were based off time added. So you ended up with a few people that own tons, and can just unmoderate everyone below them. So they arent even accountable to their peers. I recall WallStreetBets had an attempted coup for a deal or something.