ID: photo of two friends looking at a phone together, laughing, above is text: “Hitting “delete” after reading the first sentence of an entire essay that some bigoted potato took the time to write in my comments.”

  • SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    Me seeing “More replies” under my comment that won’t unfold because it’s probably someone I blocked:

    • PugJesus@lemmy.world
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      Mod privilege is being able to erase bigots with a click of a button

      Also why good moderation is so important

      • LongLive@lemmy.world
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        I agree, moderation is important.

        How do we keep moderators accountable, so the system continues to function? Is there someone checking them?

        • Peachy [they/them] M
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          The mod log is entirely visible for anyone to view. Anyone can see who we ban and why, comments we remove and why. Posts have been made in the past about mod action that were effective.

          • Hupf@feddit.org
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            One thing I don’t understand yet is what kind of appeal system is intended on Lemmy if one doesn’t want to resort to ban evasion.

            Do DMs to instance admins still go through?

            • Peachy [they/them] M
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              I believe so??? Ada’s pretty active on 196 either way. Some people use the report feature on mod comments to get in contact with other mods. If I, for example, was being unfair, reporting me might alert other mods to what I’m doing. I wouldn’t touch a report with me as the subject, but maybe that’s just the good ol autism sensitivity of justice.

        • Fonzie!@ttrpg.network
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          It wouldn’t be nice if everyone coule delete everyone’s comments and posts, but you can block someone which deletes them from your life and that’s about the same!

          • TʜᴇʀᴀᴘʏGⒶʀʏ
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            Well I was thinking just deleting comments off your own posts. People would probably be less likely to waste their time being nasty. I agree it isn’t worth the drawbacks though when you can just block- my block list is over 200 lol

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      BlueSky does I think. Perhaps not exactly, but it lets you remove quotes people made on your posts, or something like that.

    • Gormadt
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      Honestly I thought it was a “delete my own shitpost” type meme.

      I don’t do a whole of of this whole “social media” thing

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    Is there a way to “shadow delete” a comment or shadow ban a person on lemmy so that they do not know their bigotry is being silenced?

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      I’m not sure from a mod or admin point of view (while I am a mod in one community as a backup, I’ve not done any moderating myself), but I know that if you block a person on your own account, the only indication they’d have is that you don’t reply.

      From what I understand it’s actually quite a difficult issue to address on the fediverse, since content is mirrored on so many instances, deleting or blocking it on one would have very little to no impact on other instances, and obviously ban evasion is much harder to spot, since anyone can open as many accounts on as many instances as they like. I would imagine it makes it really hard to stay on top of shit that comes in, especially the worst things like abusive content containing children.

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    See? Bigotry, evil queer-phobic cishets, unnecessarily evil blogs?

    - gone - !

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    unspecified MtF person: oh you silly billy, unspecified straight onlooker: haven’t heard that in a long time, bigot: absolute scream of rage.

    this came into my head when some random time i heard silly billy being used and I’ve been wanting to get it out ever since.

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      Reminds me of “goof”, which was used endearingly in my family growing up, like “silly goof”. Later, when my circle overlapped with some wannabe gangsters, I find out some considered it one of the worst insults you could give.