Will it be effective?

Spoiler

No, it was not very effective.

EDIT: The banning event continues. Please consult the modlog to observe.

https://lemmy.world/modlog?page=1&modId=7121342

If you scroll down to about a day ago, you might be able to observe an emerging behavior from this mod.

EDIT 2: The mod in question moderates a total of 108 Lemmy communities. How deep does this conspiracy run? Is this mod a lost Redditor? More to come!

EDIT 3: The mod has now removed my comment all together, one might assume because it was still receiving upvotes in the 2 hours following my ban. Are there similarities here to Watergate? You be the judge!

EDIT 4: The mod in question has now been removed as a mod of the !vegan@lemmy.world community, as a result of their abuse of power.

https://lemmy.world/post/19731457

This was their response:

EDIT 5: This will be my final update, since as far as I see it, the issue this thread focuses on has been resolved. To quote Beaver herself in a very ironic comment she made directed towards someone else:

Clearly this was all just a case of…

  • LeadersAtWork@lemmy.world
    853·
    2 months ago

    Mods 108 communities?

    What we have here, sir and/or madam, is a Reddit mod. Excessive modding, a smell you can’t quite place, same techniques.

    Gotta say: I was hoping we wouldn’t be followed by that type.

    • Angry_Autist (he/him)@lemmy.world
      8·
      2 months ago

      It is inevitable, all lemmy instances will eventually be taken over by supermods that leverage their power to harass.

      This vegan fiasco isn’t even the first time but I guarantee you the admins will leave them to powermod the remaining 107 as they see fit.

      • Dr. Wesker@lemmy.sdf.orgOPEnglish
        6·
        2 months ago

        I guarantee you the admins will leave them to powermod the remaining 107 as they see fit.

        Well, in this case the person in question couldn’t handle the fallout of their actions, and actually deleted their whole account.

        • Angry_Autist (he/him)@lemmy.world
          51·
          2 months ago

          Powermods like that don’t usually have only one account, and since they can mod themselves wherever they go, they usually do.

          Nuking an account is just changing skins. The admins have the power to track and fix that, but they won’t.

    • Honytawk@lemmy.zip
      3·
      2 months ago

      Pretty sure the Reddit mods were the biggest group of complainers against Reddits API changes, since they used third party apps in order to mod.

      So it stands to reason a ginormous group of them switched to Lemmy and had plenty of free time to mod there as well.