Stop giving shitty mods a free pass. Honest mistakes happen; but if the mod in question is assumptive, disingenuous, trigger-happy, or eager to enable certain shitty types of user, spread the word about their comm being poorly moderated. And don’t interact directly with the comm. I think that at least here in the Fediverse we should demand higher standards from our mods.

(Emphasis mine.)

In the past I have used places like [email protected] or [email protected] to call out mods on other subs, with mid-to-almost-high degrees of success, but I wonder if it would be better to have a dedicated sublemmy?

Here are my thoughts on what would make this effective:

probably shouldn’t be hosted on .world due to the breadth of possible conflicts of interest with admins
probably shouldn’t be hosted on .ml due to federation hurdles
mods of the community shouldn’t moderate any other communities of any significant size, in order to make the whole “accountability” thing work
mods should be willing and able to deal with substantial quantities of garbage posts because there would be a lot of “why won’t c/xyz let me be transphobic/say slurs 😡😡” type submissions which, left unaddressed, would outflood genuine criticism

This is still in conceptual form so I am interested what others think :)

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[–] Godric 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I've recently had a couple of totally unrelated negative interactions with an extremely self-rightious "powermod" who has control of a few of my favorite communities.

This sounds like a good idea, since if I was to start shitposting about my experiences with a powermod, they could just remove my posts and ban me from the many communities they control.

But, it could just turn into a cesspool of vendettas and hivemind whingeing about mods x poster dislikes. Ironically, this community would require great mods to not just be a hate circlejerk.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

yep, posted to [email protected] and it immediately made a downturn 🥲

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

So, do you plan to use this one? Shouldn't it be elsewhere to prevent Lemmy.world power tripping mods to escalate to their admins, and have that community removed?