A moderator deleted one of my posts for being off topic. I received no notification. It’s mere chance that I realized my post was silently removed, at which point I checked to modlog where a reason was given.

Users can filter sitewide modlogs on their own account to see the actions against them (great!) – but there should also be a notification.

  • Otter@lemmy.caEnglish
    181·
    9 months ago

    Myself and many other moderators share this concern

    If users don’t know why their content was removed

    • they won’t know what they did wrong, in cases of justified removals
    • they won’t be following up, in cases of error removals

    Part of the difficulty is having the solution work within a federated system, but it’s not impossible

    • SturgiesYrFase
      7·
      9 months ago

      I was recently blocked on a community, I have a good idea of why(I’m sure they thought I was being a dick for agreeing with someone saying that a wider war with Russia would probably be a bad thing) but there was no real indication that I had even been blocked until I happened to be looking through my comment history and noticed the blocked symbol next to my name.
      An automated message saying I’ve been blocked, by which community, and with a space for someone to maybe put a reason in, would have been nice.

  • OneMansTrash
    6·
    9 months ago

    Just to add to the topic of transparency: I’ve noticed that lemmy appears to censor the B word, but there’s no mods checking the content (from what I can tell), it just auto changes the word to say “removed.”

    Oddly enough, the B word seems to be the only word (swear or otherwise) that’s censored in such a way.

    Fuck shit ass cock dick

    removed (B word)

    Genuinely can’t tell if this is in error, or if there’s someone higher in the chain that got called a removed and is taking it really personally.

    • hightrix@lemmy.world
      31·
      9 months ago

      Mods here, similar to on Reddit, seem to be the type that makes being a mod their whole world. They go on righteous crusades for their various causes quite often.

      It is a stark reminder that the Lemmy janitors have the same delusions of power that the Reddit janitors had. With the massive population increase caused by an activity that made a lot of Reddit mods angry, you have a lot of that type here.

      It is what it is. I just tend to ignore votes and censoring. Or more laugh at it.

      Of my two dogs, the removed is my favorite.