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.
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.
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?
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.
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.
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.
Is this what leads to “you’ve commented in so we’re gonna ban you from ”?
I've never encountered that myself. What communities are you commenting in that you're getting banned elsewhere for it?
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.
Happened a couple of times on Reddit. For example, banned from r/Stepparents for participation in r/AmITheDevil. Just randomly messaged and told.
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.
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.
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?
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.
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.
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.
Is this what leads to “you’ve commented in so we’re gonna ban you from ”?
I've never encountered that myself. What communities are you commenting in that you're getting banned elsewhere for it?
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.
Happened a couple of times on Reddit. For example, banned from r/Stepparents for participation in r/AmITheDevil. Just randomly messaged and told.
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