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Where can we report a mod for abuse of power? (lemm.ee)

submitted 6 days ago by gravityowl@lemm.ee to c/lemmy_support@lemmy.ml

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I was wondering if there were systems in place for users to report mods who are just ignoring the code of conduct and just abusing their power of moderator as a whole?

I've seen that we could get in touch via Mastodon, but I don't have an account for that unfortunately and I was curious to know if there were other ways

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[–] jordanlund@lemmy.world -3 points 6 days ago (1 children)

As a mod, we don't really "hover", we do have a queue of reported posts and reported comments and deal with them as they pop up.

Most likely some other .ml user saw the "tankie" comment, reported it, and the .ml mod did the .ml mod thing.

[–] PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat -2 points 6 days ago

I fail to see a useful distinction between me posting what I think, and a mod seeing it and deleting it, versus me posting what I think, someone reporting it, and then the mod deleting it. In both cases someone's standing over me policing what viewpoints I'm allowed to express, which is bad.

I actually do get why someone would want to delete "tankie," since it could be taken as a gratuitous insult. And I do get mod fatigue and running out of care to give as an underlying issue for a lot of this. I think a big part of the underlying issue is depending on volunteer moderators to keep the whole system together and making basically unlimited demands on them. I was just talking about the general censorship problem on lemmy.ml, not trying to say that every case is always power tripping mods.