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      I called them out for not following their own community rules:

      Please be nice to other members. Anyone not being nice will be banned. Keep it fun, respectful and just be awesome to each other.

      and they deleted their account.

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        What was wrong with them removing your comment? You were being annoying 🤷‍♂️

        Their response seemed perfectly measured to someone being needlessly pedantic.

        Edit: And also Shuts down? Did you miss the ‘down’? Was the title edited after the fact? What does the rest of that modlog say? The screenshot is cropped.

        My perspective is you were being annoying, got downvoted/called out, feigned shock, got your comments removed, and now you’re on a bitter smear campaign.

        This is the weakest accusation of mod abuse I’ve seen. Good grief.

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          Yes, their comment was extremely annoying, both in tone (whining) and content (TL;DR: “pls spoonfeed me basic reading comprehension”). If the mod simply removed the comment, or issued an official warning, it would be 100% warranted.

          However, what the non-mod user is saying ITT about moderator abuse is still spot on. The mod in question answered to the whining in tone, tried to cover their own arse with content removal, and then went to whine in Mastodon about the events, or the fact that there’s transparency functionality in Lemmy (the mod log) against the exact same behaviour that they showed there.

          So it’s a case where both sides were wrong but given their relative positions the mod being wrong is a bigger deal.

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            I agree with you, but what does a moderator do once they engage with the user other than remove the whole interaction? They deleted the whole thread, not just their opposition.

            Seems like the the whining on mastadon about transparency was more because this guy is following them around harrassing them via public modlog screenshots, when on any other forum it wouldn’t even matter… unless it actually mattered.

            In this situation, my view is OP made a mess, pissed jannie added to the mess, OP feigned shock, pissed jannie thought better and cleaned the mess up.

            Yet OP here is still trying to stir the pot like the mod was silencing their opinion or something. It was a worthless comment.

            edit: oh my god he’s been copypasting this for months LMAO I’m done. God.

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              64 months ago

              I agree with you, but what does a moderator do once they engage with the user other than remove the whole interaction?

              You think before engaging. And if you fuck it up, you apologise to the community (not to that specific user) for what you’ve done wrong. But unless the content is sensitive (for example, the other user posted something illegal), you keep it alone, at most you lock it.

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                Lemmy is too small and this snafoo is so pointless that I think a community apology would be hilarious.

                I think the punishment should fit the crime. Having some weirdo follow your posts around calling you manipulative and toxic for months is just… its too much. It’s a linux gaming forum, some social ineptitude is to be expected. Users shouldn’t feel entitled to continuously attack a mod who “mod abused” them with the assault equivalent of a light shove.

                It’s just the most insulated privileged non-problem, my god.

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                  Lemmy is too small and this snafoo is so pointless that I think a community apology would be hilarious.

                  It doesn’t need to be something fancy. Just an “EDIT: I apologise to the community for sounding abrasive. I’m a mod here so my behaviour should be better than that, my bad.” I think that it’s important because users take moderators of their respective communities as role models on how they’re allowed/disallowed to behave, so if the mod doesn’t at least mention that they fucked it up, other users might see it and think “OK, that’s valid behaviour here, even the mod does it. Time to go rogue.”

                  I think the punishment should fit the crime. Having some weirdo follow your posts around calling you manipulative and toxic for months is just… its too much.

                  Yup, full agree with that. And based on interactions with the user in this thread, they’re being clearly disingenuous, mincing words to play the victim. The mod was in the wrong but that’s, as you said, too much.

                  • @[email protected]
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                    100% Yeah you’re right. I was imagining a public apology An edit is appropriate. Still, this dude puts socker players to shame with how he cries foul.

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              Seems like the the whining on mastadon about transparency was more because this guy is following them around harrassing them via public modlog screenshots

              Baseless accusation. Got any proof?

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            Yes, their comment was extremely annoying, both in tone (whining) and content (TL;DR: “pls spoonfeed me basic reading comprehension”). If the guy simply removed the comment, or issued an official warning, it would be 100% warranted.

            It’s your right to have an opinion on whether or not you think I was annoying. However, the rest of that is just wrong and needlessly rude. My comment was only to point out how many different ways the title could be interpreted without being explicit in what happened. There is no need to be so rude with your wild assumption. I just found the title to be mildly frustrating due to being vague because of the missing word, and I thought I would express that. Does that warrant moderation action? No. It breaks no rules and there was no intent to be disrespectful, nor is there any real tangible proof of any disrespectful intent.

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              I could write a full wall of text explaining everything wrong with your comment, but to keep it short:

              Cut off the crap. You aren’t fooling anyone here by playing the victim.

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              I’d probably issue an official warning, then see how the poster reacts. I feel like 1d bans are mostly useful when you got the flamewar already going on, between two otherwise contributive members, and you need them to chill their heads.

              That’s up to mod style though. It’s possible that your approach works better than mine, dunno, I almost never rely on short bans.

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          Pointlessly snarky comments are one of the worst parts of Reddit and Lemmy and I fully support mods putting a stop to that. I guess the important part is to be transparent about it

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            But if it was transparent you wouldnt be able to see it

            Now that I’ve willfully misrepresented what you said, I am eager for your reply so i can pointlessly be an asshole about it!

            /assholesnark.

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          “Annoying” is subjective, and there is no rule against being perceived as being “annoying” in the community rules.

          The only rule is to be respectful, which they did not follow at all, then tried to hide it.

          Response to edit: yes, it was edited after it was brought up. The modlog is public, there’s no need for me to try to hide anything like they tried to do. If you’re going to try to give me shit for that, why do they get a free pass?

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            Nothing they did appears to have negatively altered the quality of the comments or discussion.

            Respect is also subjective. Your initial post seemed to be mocking and disrespectful for no apparent reason. I’d argue the comment section is more respectful with your remarks gone.

            Objectively, it appears they were right to delete their account. You’re stalking posts mentioning their site and complaining about this nothing burger.

            I would also distance myself from pedantic harrassers and focus on literally anything else productive if I were them.

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              Are you Liam in disguise or something? Why are you trying to make up shit like I’m “stalking” posts mentioning their site? I’m a user of Lemmy just the same as anyone else and when I see posts that bring up this toxic person’s site, I can easily help inform people of their gross manipulative behavior.

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                There isn’t even some grand “toxic” or “manipulative” coverup. The mod deleted the whole interaction because it was pointless and rude from both of you. It added nothing.

                The jannie took out the trash and you’re still harrassing them about the subjectivity of annoyance and respect. Y’know who makes that subjective choice? The mods.

                I have no ties to this, but I am in opposition to this neat little narrative you appear to be creating tossing out buzzwords like toxic, gross, manipulative without evidence to back it up.

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            You’re definitely right. But without any sort of context, just the screengrab with the title corrected, it makes OPs rant seem even more pointless.

            It could have been one word if they were genuinely confused: “…Shuts?”

            Or if they were smart enough to realize it was an error:

            “There’s a word missing…”

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          Whether you consider it whining, depends upon the tone you read it in.

          I just read that comment and didn’t feel annoyed enough to even give a downvote and the mod’s reply seemed far too annoying.

          The username on the other hand…

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        Thanks! Not quite as wild as I was expecting (kind of surprised this was enough to push them to delete their account)

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          Mod abuse is mod abuse, regardless of the level. They clearly felt embarrassed for needlessly being mean and getting caught for it after trying to hide the fact.

          Then they tried to excuse it on their mastodon.

          If they’re willing to go through all that for something so minor, they would absolutely be willing to do the same to hide worse behavior.

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          Probably decided “fuck this” and quit volunteering instead of dealing with drama llamas.

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        Not gonna lie he was right about the shuts thing. It’s not a common phrasing but totally legit and you did seem kinda dickish when you pointed it out.

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          Pointing something out is not inherently being a dick. It did not warrant the response, particularly a response that clearly breaks the rules of the community they were trusted with the responsibility to manage.

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              No snark was intended, but I can see why people could interpret it poorly. I won’t claim to be perfect at communicating over Lemmy comments.