To be clear, not talking about this community, obviously π.
What's the point of writing down rules, if mods just do what they want? But I suppose that's the risk you take when you call someone a liar in a small community; they might be a mod.
Edit: I'm not trying to say that mods suck, they perform a useful and often thankless job. Just that it can be difficult for small communities to get a healthy number of good mods, which can become a problem.
Sounds like anybody can be a mod on Lemmy.world
Does Lemmy need political news? This is big shit and news like this is usually just upsetting.
Public warnings are bullshit, anyway. They post a reply, warning you for saying something you didn't say, often /u/ mentioning you, then delete the original comment to cover their tracks.
That's why and how I got banned from NCD and stomped on multiple times in shitposting
I didn't get a ban, but definitely had a post "disappeared" with no explanation because I had the audacity to mention the extreme anti-Israel bias around here.
I maintain that mods arenβt required.
If you give the community the ability to remove/hide posts once a certain threshold is met the community can self moderate.
This is literally how society works. We self govern all the time by not cutting in line or smacking people in the face for no reason.
I've been shadow-banned from a few subreddits when I was still on the site.
Not. One. Warning.
on r/images or r/gifs or something, I 'and my ax'ed on some random thread. Banned. Thread context? All deleted. No warning, no explanation, and when I asked for feedback I got something like "the ban holds" or something.
Honestly, I'm a dick a lot of the time, but I simply can't reconcile a ban for "and my ax". Ban me for the actual stuff I do, sure. A warning would be excellent. But that one bugs me the most as I can't learn from it.