I am completely serious about this as it’s been a fundamental question I’ve had since I joined here.

The modlogs always seem to show only two people from that instance that carry out removals and bans, but there are actually mods for each of those communities that you never see issuing any mod actions.

Serious question:

Is there a reason for this? Am I missing something? I mean, I have my opinions, but I’m shelving them for the purpose of this post to just simply ask, is this purposeful in some way?

Please keep opinions civil. This isn’t to create a flame war, just to ask if there’s a reason for this because i just find it odd. Is there maybe someone from that instance that knows why that can clear this up?

(Though I did check the rules before posting, if this isn’t allowed, I totally understand,)

  • PugJesus@lemmy.worldEnglish
    82·
    3 months ago

    If the admins are at some point distracted, or otherwise are unexpectedly removed from their ability to moderate for a time, and comms have no reliable moderators, then everything will be… well, unmoderated. Having active users as moderators, even if they currently don’t do much moderating compared to the admins, makes the moderation system as a whole more likely to survive any unforeseen events.

  • mesamunefire@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    3 months ago

    One of the communities I maintained already popped in some really disturbing…content that needed to get removed.

    • Rhoeri@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      103·
      3 months ago

      Hey everyone! This is my pet troll, mutual something-or-another. (I’ll come up with a better name later)

      They’ve adopted me in a conversion where I spoke my opinion about a comic- and they didn’t like it. So now- I’m being tailed.

      So far, they’ve followed me through two other instances to whine about whatever it is that I’m saying.

      It’s worth nothing that it seems we on opposite ends of every possible issue, and that seems to include common sense, but if this is the type of shit that can make good TV, I can’t see why we can’t make it work here.