Hi there.

A short introduction: This is an alt account. I’m a moderator here who has been unhappy with the state of news/political discussions here for a long time. The admins have kindly given me the opportunity to see if we can make some improvement the community here.

We will be doing some major revision of the rules left by the previous moderators and will use discussions in this thread as feedback on the direction we should take our community.

This will be an open discussion on the state of our community, the rules and our moderation practices. Feel free to give your inputs.

  • QuokkaAEnglish
    18·
    1 year ago

    This does not sit well with me.

    A shadowy figure, who hides their own account has taken over the community?

    We’re going back to reddit powermod drama at this rate.

    Anyone know of some good alternative news communities? I’m happy to switch over asap.

    • zephyreks@lemmy.mlEnglish
      7·
      1 year ago

      I’ve been trying to get the other lemmy.ml worldnews mods to tone down their moderation on that community under the principle that if someone’s comment is offensive, they should get called out for it instead of having their comments immediately removed. We’ll see what happens lol

      • intelshill@lemmy.caEnglish
        4·
        1 year ago

        Good luck, I want to dunk on the racist comments but they get removed before I can.

    • Might Be@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      6·
      1 year ago

      You give me too much credit.

      Check the amount of abuse Jordan Lund has gotten recently from spam accounts on our site modlog, and you should understand why I choose to make an alt instead. Among other reasons, of course.

      • QuokkaAEnglish
        7·
        1 year ago

        It’s the Internet, you’ll get death threats and abuse for posting a cat gif or saying you enjoy pineapple on pizza.

        At the end of the day, these are anonymous accounts and you’ve gone beyond even that and it’s concerning.

    • jordanlund@lemmy.worldMEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      Hiding their main account and modding from an alt account is a choice they made because their main user name includes the name of an IP neither they, nor lemmy, have the legal right to use in a professional setting.

      Using an alt is to limit liability, not to hide anything. It’s a good idea. We don’t want anyone to get sued because a username rose to prominance.