Well hello again everybody! This has been a wonderful past couple of days. I want to give a huge thank you to everybody who participated in my Under New Management post from Thursday. There was a lot of great feedback, and it will go a long way to helping me better understand all of your wants and needs for this community. Yay!
Yes, this will be wordy. Read it anyway. I will try to be concise.
I spent the entirety of Thursday afternoon and evening working through the over 600 reports that existed for the community. There are still a little less than 200 more left to work through. To be fully transparent, I was given the option of simply mass clearing all of the reports so that I could start with a clean slate. Halfway through, it was very tempting to take the powers-that-be (PtB) up on their generous offer. 😅 But, I wanted to see the reports and see what was being reported (and also by whom). Again, this is my way of learning about this community and its members.
The first thing I want to say is this: for the time being, I have decided that @beep@piefed.world is allowed to stay – with conditions. I have reached out privately to them about their past behavior, and they conveyed that they will respect the rules going forward. I have conveyed back to them that their continued use of the community is contingent on their ability to not break the rules going forward (especially with the alteration of comics). With this said, I fully expect this to ruffle quite a few of those proverbial feathers. But, for better or for worse, the decision is made. Please do not report their posts/comments merely because of who they are. If you do report them for anything, do it because it actually breaks the rules (be sure to be specific about what rules).
With this out of the way, I also want to take a moment to welcome the following people to our moderation team:
- @TheTechnician27@lemmy.world
- @Harvey656@lemmy.world
- @slazer2au@lemmy.world
- @Otter@lemmy.ca
- @cannedtuna@lemmy.world
- @18107@aussie.zone
They have each reached out in some capacity to ask for this job, and I see no reason to not bring them aboard to help out. I expect that they will do their very best to ensure that this community, and its visitors, are treated fairly and with the upmost respect they deserve. Let’s be sure that they get the same in return. Everyone made it a strong point that we are all adults here, so let’s be sure to act like it.
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While i think Beep is objectively a bad person, i see no reason they can’t post here if they respect the rules. It’s really not that
beepdeep.The first thing I want to say is this: for the time being, I have decided that beep is allowed to stay
That is disappointing to hear.
I think if you follow the rules as they’ve been laid out now, you should be allowed to stick around.
Previously the rule requiring a source or attribution link was not a rule.
While I don’t agree with Beep’s public POV on how website links for the artists are equivalent to an advertisement, it wasn’t against the rules. Just kind of rude.
If they’re willing to follow the rules now, they can stay. It’s that easy.
But what about beep@lemmynsfw and beep@lemmy.world? Will only one of his personalities behave? Can’t wait to find out
Personally I am more concerned with the ones not yet made, as the known ones are already blocked. :-|
“I have decided that beep(at)piefed.world is allowed to stay – with conditions. I have reached out privately to them about their past behavior, and they conveyed that they will respect the rules going forward.”
oh cool! i totally trust a poster who posted specifically in bad taste in order to fight with as many people possible to stand by his weird obsessive stance.
i also totally trust the dude that instantly made alt accounts and alt communities just so he could attempt to evade bans and new rules.
I’m so happy to hear he promised this time! that makes such a huge difference!
I don’t trust them either given they explicitly disobeyed rules before (which I’m sure hundreds of people pointed out to them, e.g. about post limits), but I can promise you I’ll be keeping an eye on what they post here. They won’t get the same leeway again, and I think it’s a reasonable olive branch by jerkface given that they are able to post good material here when they stick within the rules – and, in my mind, so that the catalyst of the mod transition doesn’t steal the spotlight as a singular reason for the transition. This isn’t just “/c/comicstrips but beep isn’t here”, and I think that conveys that message while giving beep plenty of rope, so to speak.
We’ll keep them in check, and it won’t be a problem again. Rehabilitation where it’s possible, and I think it’s possible here.
i understand.
I was pretty anti-post limits, but after seeing lemmyshitpost today… well. I can understand why they’re in place.
Yeah, several factors converge to make a bunch of daily posts (even well-meaning) a bad idea to allow; among them:
- The threadiverse is small enough that basically anything with even tepid reception shows up on ‘All’. So users who are lukewarm on the community but don’t want 5 million posts per day are incentivized to just block it altogether instead of whack-a-mole problematic users.
- It crowds out posts from other users, propagating a monoculture.
- It incentivizes the poster to value quantity over quality.
- It’s much harder to properly moderate.
- It dilutes discussion around a bunch of posts instead of in-depth commentary around a handful of posts.
- It causes ceaseless arguments that can even dominate the community (hell, even leak out of it) when one or two users get way out-of-hand.
This was removed?
This was posted (and reported) before the rule change, and I removed it due to it’s non-“family friendly” nature. There were a couple of other posts that I removed for similar reasons. Now, if you would like to repost it with the appropriate NSFW tag, you’re welcome to do so now that the rules officially support this content.
Based on a post from 2 hours ago, it seems like cannedtuna has begun power trippin. Entire thread locked, most comments deleted by mod. Hiss-boo. Doesn’t make for an entertaining post.
This assumes I know what post you’re referring to.
I don’t. So I’m not sure what you would like to happen here.
beep is allowed to stay
well fuck this community then. Didnt realise mods of a comic community would be ok with a user continuing to use ai slop comics, and strip author attribution.
Well they explicitly said they won’t allow doing that…
Why are you subbed to a comic community if you can’t read?
why are you ok with an obvious troll remaining unbanned?
I have a short conversation with beep about their last post. They did the same thing and cut off the attribution. I pointed out the rules and they chose to remove the post themselves.
So maybe they are learning, but I feel yah.
As long as they stop and don’t break the rules from now on I don’t see why not. I believe they had their fun and learned their lesson. Of course on the first infraction they should be yeeted out
GREAT NEW MODS FIRST THING THEY DO IS REMOVE MY COMMENTS AND LEAVE AWFUL ZIONIST GENOCIDER COMMENTS ALONE.
THE HASBARA RATS HAVE INFILTRATED LEMMY
Have you tried the report button? There were plenty of reports for you, none from you that I saw.
typical zionist rats use brigade reporting to censor what they don’t like.
I leave it to the mods usually. But you apparently act on their reports no questions asked and see no reason to remove their comments.IDK what’s happening lately.
“Allah can choke on a dick just like your mother did.”
Now there’s one comment from a hasbarat to someone else I reported earlier.
Nothing happened, msg the mods to ask WTF they were doing, still they leave it up.I’m always happy to listen to feedback, and change my behaviour when I’m wrong.
I will not be removing comments just because they have been reported, or just because I disagree with them. I will only be removing comments that explicitly break the rules as listed on the sidebar. You are welcome to report any comment you believe should be removed. There is no penalty for incorrectly reporting something if it is done in good faith (i.e. don’t report everything just because I said no penalty).
While not explicitly against rule 1 (Be nice), I believe “zionist rats” could have been phrased as “zionists” or “zionist people” while still making the same point.
“you talk like a fascist” and “you seem like a psycho” is following rule 1 (Be nice)? LOL
