Where’s the part where they misread your comment to give them an excuse to ban you?
…seriously, good mods don’t last long in Reddit. The whole system seems tailored to give power to power-tripping irrationals with too much free time. And what worries me is that, in large part, Lemmy moderation has a similar structure. (I’m not sure on Kbin moderation because I’m not a janny there.)
I was asked to help mod a new community, and things were going pretty well for a year or so, but then the sub owner and the other mods gradually disappeared until it was just me and another guy left.
Well, turns out they were moderating/owning 30+ subs on average. We both quit that day.
I just can’t understand what kind of ego boost they get out of being useless cunts in 30 places. How can such little power be so tantalizing to some people?
Yeah, that’s what stunned me over at lemmy.world and lead me to leave Lemmy altogether. There was a mod, who got mad and gave me a one-warning before ban over a light issue because of an instigating gas-lighting troll troubling everyone. Like, that certainly escalated out of no where.
I don’t have time for that shit. I don’t like seeing it in the Fediverse.
I do not know if this is just my faulty random sampling, but. While there are plenty great posters in both lemmy.world and lemm.ee, I’ve been noticing that most Reddit-like posters (showing the same sort of stupidity as the one that you’re describing) are from those two instances. And well, I do predict that some of them became moderators.
If that is correct, it’s likely because those are rather large and free-for-all instances - they got so many people at once that they were unable to properly integrate and civilise/de-reddit-ise/rationalise them. That’s an additional problem, and it might actually get worse over time because the mod hierarchy blues is likely to hit harder after ~a year.
(I don’t have the same experience as you in Lemmy. But I’m from lemmy.ml; the admins here restricted comm creation and subscriptions, to encourage people to spread out. In the process I think that we users have dodged a bullet from this instance.)
Where’s the part where they misread your comment to give them an excuse to ban you?
…seriously, good mods don’t last long in Reddit. The whole system seems tailored to give power to power-tripping irrationals with too much free time. And what worries me is that, in large part, Lemmy moderation has a similar structure. (I’m not sure on Kbin moderation because I’m not a janny there.)
Pretty much this.
I was asked to help mod a new community, and things were going pretty well for a year or so, but then the sub owner and the other mods gradually disappeared until it was just me and another guy left.
Well, turns out they were moderating/owning 30+ subs on average. We both quit that day.
I just can’t understand what kind of ego boost they get out of being useless cunts in 30 places. How can such little power be so tantalizing to some people?
Yeah, that’s what stunned me over at lemmy.world and lead me to leave Lemmy altogether. There was a mod, who got mad and gave me a one-warning before ban over a light issue because of an instigating gas-lighting troll troubling everyone. Like, that certainly escalated out of no where.
I don’t have time for that shit. I don’t like seeing it in the Fediverse.
I do not know if this is just my faulty random sampling, but. While there are plenty great posters in both lemmy.world and lemm.ee, I’ve been noticing that most Reddit-like posters (showing the same sort of stupidity as the one that you’re describing) are from those two instances. And well, I do predict that some of them became moderators.
If that is correct, it’s likely because those are rather large and free-for-all instances - they got so many people at once that they were unable to properly integrate and civilise/de-reddit-ise/rationalise them. That’s an additional problem, and it might actually get worse over time because the mod hierarchy blues is likely to hit harder after ~a year.
(I don’t have the same experience as you in Lemmy. But I’m from lemmy.ml; the admins here restricted comm creation and subscriptions, to encourage people to spread out. In the process I think that we users have dodged a bullet from this instance.)