Not trying to start anything, and if this is the wrong place to post about it I apologize, I’m not sure where else to broach the topic, but as a user I’ve noticed an enormous increase is moderator action today and I’m curious if there was some catalyst that the userbase should be aware of. Prior to today, the modlog shows only a few mod actions most days, and previous entire months can fit within one screenview. Furthermore, most of those actions were locking posts or removing and reprimanding specific offending comments. Yet today there is an entire wave of moderator actions, including such vague notes as “Troll Post” on meme posts with significant engagement.

I promise I’m not trying to start drama, I am just concerned as I love Lemmy and want to see it and the community thrive, and I am concerned about the same issues that plague Reddit could potentially find their way here.

That said, I also understand this isn’t a democracy, so if the reply is simply “that’s how it is,” I guess I’m going to just shrug and accept it.

    • catloaf@lemm.eeEnglish
      5·
      6 months ago

      Or elsewhere. I’m currently on my second ban from lemmy.ml for violating the rule “no ads / spamming”, though I have zero posts on that instance, and none of my three comments from that day are in the same community or have any external links.

        • Alice@hilariouschaos.comEnglish
          3·
          6 months ago

          Lol I know. Be careful though, you can really go into a rabbit hole though with that. I’ve done it plenty of times.

          You do know admins can just purge the modlog though right ?

                • Alice@hilariouschaos.comEnglish
                  4·
                  6 months ago

                  It’s honestly already bad. Lemmy is worse then reddit is now bc a lot of those ppl came here when the api thing happened

                • Vespair@lemm.eeOP
                  3·
                  6 months ago

                  This is my concern. Or rather, my concern is that we will simply be replicating the reddit powermod problem with Lemmy powermods. I think we have the chance to learn from problems of the past, and I am worried we are not taking that opportunity

            • sunaurus@lemm.eeM
              2·
              6 months ago

              Purging is something that can’t really be used to hide mod actions, as any federated instances will still retain their copy of any purged content. Purging is a feature which is only really useful for completely removing illegal content from our servers, it’s used quite rarely and in fact leaves a trace in the mod log as well.

    • Vespair@lemm.eeOP
      1·
      6 months ago

      No, but at least in the case of the post which caused me to dive into the modlog in the first place, I do believe the judgement to be a bit subjective/arbitrary, as the post was called a “troll post” despite being about a major meme trend and was in the meme community. It was a meme about a contentious topic, and that is perhaps why it has gotten trend-level attention, but the post itself didn’t seem to be specifically bait. Which alone is fine, it’s okay to disagree with a mod decision and it doesn’t make that mod decision wrong or problematic, but that shaky reasoning plus the again, dramatic uptick in mod activity based on the entire previous history of this instance seemed worthy of inquiry to me.

      Again, I’m really not try to start drama or trouble, and I don’t care about the specific post in question or any other post, I am just trying to understand before jumping to conclusions. But as somebody else pointed out, it seems like the vast majority of the activity is removing posts of a single problematic user, which is certainly valid reasoning.