Okay, this is definitely a minor case, but probably still worth reporting.

Modlog is here, 17 hours ago: https://lemmy.world/modlog/3106

Link to the post content reposted on !fediverse@lemmy.world: https://lemmyverse.link/lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/36299751

That question is useful for most of the people, as LW hosts 36% of the users base, and most of the active communities (https://lemmyverse.net/communities?order=active). Removing it as a support question seems questionable.

The most curious thing is that I investigated a bit, as LW still allows to show which mod performed which action (that how things worked in 0.19.3), and that removal has been performed by a mod that literally hasn’t performed any action in 6 months: https://lemmy.world/modlog?page=1&modId=45389

Not wanting to put a tinfoil hat, but it’s still curious to me that that specific mod came out from a 5-months inactivity just to remove that one post highlighting potential issues with LW.

What do you all think?

    • Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.comOP
      2·
      3 days ago

      The issue with the support community is that you wouldn’t get feedback from people who left LW due to this (and there are a few examples in the comments).

      The fact that it’s still up on !fediverse@lemmy.world shows that it addresses a larger point than just “my instance is slow”

  • PugJesus@lemmy.worldEnglish
    14·
    3 days ago

    Rule 5:

    It is not a place for ‘how do I?’, type questions. If you have any questions regarding the site itself or would like to report a community, please direct them to Lemmy.world Support or email info@lemmy.world. For other questions check our partnered communities list, or use the search function.

    I don’t know, I can see how that can fall under ‘regarding the site itself’. Don’t know that you ‘deserved’ it, but I also don’t think that I’d regard the removal as power-tripping. It’s an edge case, and it seems a bit excessive to accuse the mod of power-tripping over it.

    • Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.comOP
      5·
      3 days ago

      It’s not an “how do I”, as I wasn’t experiencing the slowness myself, I was looking for feedback from LW users. And the best place to get that is probably the !asklemmy@lemmy.world community.

      It’s an edge case, and it seems a bit excessive to accuse the mod of power-tripping over it.

      I agree it’s minor, I’ll add that in the OP.

  • lemonmelon@lemmy.world
    9·
    3 days ago

    YDI - they’ve made it clear that the community you posted in isn’t the place for that sort of question. Argue that it rides the line if you like, but they deem it a violation of their rules. Support would have been the right channel, and then it’s up to the instance admins to handle it from there. That includes further clarifying questions to the users who may be experiencing these slowdowns, a group that you’re admittedly not a part of.

  • erotadorEnglish
    8·
    3 days ago

    PTB

    I don’t get how everybody is coming in here saying it breaks the rules and belongs in support, this is not a support question, it’s simply asking if others users have the same experience, or to share their own, that by definition is not support, it’s feedback.

    • OpenStars@piefed.socialEnglish
      4·
      3 days ago

      I think mods get tired of having to deal with shit, and so anything that remotely resembles what they’ve removed in the past gets classified as similar.

      Also many users (not mods) are rule lawyers and love to spam the report button and that can influence things as well. Like if nobody had reported this perhaps it would have stayed but then when someone did…

      Ultimately this has all the earmarks that it might be a PTB, yet it does seem arguable that the mod could have been simply overeager and not paying close attention, so potentially a CLM? (Which itself is simply another form of an unintentional and low-grade PTB?)

      Edit: in all likelihood, we here are putting in far more effort thinking this situation over than the mod in question did:-P.

  • Unruffled [he/him]@lemmy.dbzer0.comMEnglish
    3·
    3 days ago

    CLM. It’s not a support issue really, although perhaps their more technical admins keep an eye on that community so that could have been the reason? If they genuinely can’t keep up with the technical demands of running a large instance then it’s important to acknowledge that. Spreading the load across multiple smaller instances, as the fediverse was intended to work, might be a good way of addressing the issue.

  • FrostyTrichs@walledgarden.xyz
    2·
    3 days ago

    Apologies if this isn’t the place for it but I feel it’s relevant to the OP-

    I’ve been messing with WG off and on for months trying to sort out why it is that L.W won’t stay synced to all of our communities simultaneously. Nothing we’ve tried has ever worked for very long.

    If L.W picks up posts from WG like it’s supposed to their comments/votes/etc don’t show up to WG until a day later, sometimes longer. Some of our communities update over there nearly instantly, others take awhile or have to be manually pulled over. Given that they are using an older version of Lemmy and have features in place that don’t match the rest of Lemmy it’s hard to know where the problem really lies. There isn’t much left to try on our end.

    At this point there isn’t much we can do besides continuing to tune the database settings until something sticks or holding out hope that everything magically works again when L.W finally updates to a newer Lemmy build.

    If others are having trouble too that seems like even more reason to continue to spread out across the fediverse instead of concentrating on a few large instances. As I’ve said before I don’t believe this is what the owners/admins/mods of L.W want. The longer time goes on the more it seems like they are actively working to hide their problems to keep a stranglehold on users.