A recent post collected some comments by moderator Yobuckstopshere which were reported for being Covid misinformation. Further, comments calling out the misinformation were being removed.
This was reported to me, and after a short examination, I engaged the lemmy.world site admins who took the following actions:
Yobuckstopshere was removed as moderator from both Politics and World News. The comments were removed, and they were banned for 3 days.
This is tough for me since I value their contributions to Lemmy, and why I had to recuse myself beyond getting the Admins involved, but if it were anyone else, the comments would have been removed and the user banned, and so here we are.
Similarly, I don’t like exposing behind the scenes drama so to speak, but I also believe in transparency in moderation action. It’s why I reply to posts and comments before I remove them citing exactly why they are being removed. I feel everyone deserves to know why action is being taken.
Unlike reddit, there is a process for removing moderators who appear to have been acting in bad faith. Your first line of defense is other moderators, but we are also in regular contact with the lemmy.world admins whose decision is final.
A lot of the other mods are stealthy. :) Good people but they don’t comment publicly. I’m the polar opposite. If it gets to the point where I have to remove a comment or a post, I want folks to know why.
Which means I get a lot of the hate, and the trolls, and the stalkers too. LOL.
I wish there was a way (or maybe I don’t understand how to do it) to filter the modlog by community. That way we could all potentially know why something was removed… assuming the mod bothered to say something about it obviously.
If you’re reading a community, clicking the modlog button in the sidebar will return only results from that community.
I can confirm this is the way to do it, just click on modlog on the bottom of this page and you will only see the log of this community.
You can filter by the user, so if you want to see your own stuff that was impacted, that’s do-able.