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What are your stories of moderator overreach on Lemmy? (lemm.ee)
submitted 3 years ago by to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml
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[–] 58 points 3 years ago (3 children)

There was a post the other day about a "powermod" from reddit who was doing the same thing with lemmy communities - snatching up dozens of names and squatting on them. Folks are rightly asking for restrictions on the number of communities any one person can mod, along with other safeguards to prevent power-tripping.

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  • [–] 25 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    The problem was that mod was doing it on lemmy.world, which was the default instance for a lot of users.

    It isn't as valuable to do here as someone can create a new sub on a different instance, but it was still annoying.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Can moderators of a sub ban people from the instance or is there just an overlap between moderators of that sub and moderators of the instance?

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  • [–] 3 points 3 years ago

    My understanding is that sub moderators are technically different positions from instance admins, but I would expect some collaboration.

    However, I don't think there is a way to ban a person from an instance yet. I'm not sure, though.

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  • [–] [S] 19 points 3 years ago* (1 child)

    Is there any incentive other than showing who's boss on the internet? I struggle to see how the amount of time and energy involved in moderating just one community, let alone multiple ones, are worth it just to get a power high. It seems exhausting.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 years ago

    It's an influence game like anything else online now that the Internet is commoditized. Corporations and political influence campaigns can and do pay for control of high-traffic accounts and communities to nudge discussions to benefit whatever they're selling.

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  • [–] 10 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Is this what leads to β€œyou’ve commented in so we’re gonna ban you from ”?

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  • [–] 6 points 3 years ago (3 children)

    I've never encountered that myself. What communities are you commenting in that you're getting banned elsewhere for it?

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  • [–] 3 points 3 years ago

    I know a lot of the parenting subs would ban you if you commented in r/childfree. Albeit, childfree is a toxic sub and a lot of the people there would subscribe to parenting subs just to troll them.

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