Context: I started !norway@sopuli.xyz to be an English-language comm for Norway. There’s an existing Norway comm which focuses on Norwegian-language content and discourages too much English in the comm. I posted a simple “Hey I’m starting this comm” post, because obviously relevant. The mod took down my post without any comment, reply, or reason. Now they lurk in my English version comm, and downvote like half the posts. They’ve never actually upvoted a thing.
Oh, they also reported one of my posts as ‘Not relevant to community’.
Talk about petty. They didn’t even start the comm themselves, they took it over a few months ago because it was abandoned, and have done pretty much nothing to drive activity in it since taking it over. I decided to post here instead of YPTB because I don’t feel like it crosses the line into mod abuse, it’s just annoyingly petty.
I don’t get why anyone views being a moderator like ownership. It seems to attract a lot of narcissism in that mindset. I don’t think mod posts are relevant to growing a community. Quite the opposite, I think forced posts are worse than none. It is a matter of how the community resonates with users and the total number of people on the platform. The more niche the group, the harder it is to find an audience. The community belongs to users that post. The only community truly owned by a mod is the one where they are the only one that posts. Mods serve the community not the other way around.
I fully agree. The comms I’m modding, I’m doing so because I want them to exist and they wouldn’t if I stepped away from them right now. The moment I think they can get by without me I’m finding some other sucker to take them over.
I don’t get why anyone views being a moderator like ownership.
Compare pet care.
If humans are your pets, you are a slave owner
Sounds like they might just be an asshole. Maybe remind them that all of their upvotes and downvotes are public.
This is obviously beside the point and not helpful to you, but why is the Norwegian-language one called Norway and not Norge?
No idea :)
sounds like !yepowertrippinbastards@lemmy.dbzer0.com would be a good place for you rn ;-)
Like I said… I don’t feel any of this crosses any lines into rulebreaking. I just wanted to vent some annoyance :)
The mod took down my post without any comment, reply, or reason.
This is definitely enough reason to post in !yepowertrippinbastards@lemmy.dbzer0.com
It also opens up an interesting debate about what is appropriate. While the mod action is understandable (they don’t want rival communities), it’s a bit of a misuse of mod tools to delete it in my opinion.
Then separately they’re harassing you by following you round downvoting everything you post. That’s the sign of somebody unhinged. They are able to compartmentalise actions that occur inside their community from the wider Lemmy.
comm
… unity.
It’s funny that you’re intentionally removing a crucial part of the word in a complaint about a lack of … that word.
That’s a shame. Surely these people would have something better to do.
Tell your server admin.
That a a job for them usually.
Like I said… I don’t feel any of this crosses any lines into rulebreaking. I just wanted to vent some annoyance :)
At programming.dev “vote manipulation” is against out Code of Conduct and we would send the user a warning to stop. I’m sure your instance has something similar written down.
Does this count as vote manipulation? It’s not multiple accounts at work.
Depends on your instance’s definition. We define it as:
We once banned a few accounts for mass down voting, i.e. their (total downvotes - total upvotes) were over 6 000. One account had downvoted more than 10 000 times in a single community.
Interesting, thanks :)
If you don’t like something that someone is doing in your own community ban them and block them. Lemmy is far too small for a childish bullshit.
Just give them a warning and then a ban.
