After being harassed in multiple discord channels by powermod FlyingSquid the news mod blackbeard has shuttered his account and moved to bluesky.
https://lemmy.world/u/Blackbeard
"The recklessness with which people downvote polite disagreements reminds me of all the worst parts of Reddit, and it proves to me that this isn’t the social media savior I’d hoped it would be, and is instead just another echo chamber. I hope eventually lemmy.world (and the fediverse more broadly) can grow out of that, but some of the behavior I’ve seen on the inside from both mods and admins doesn’t really inspire much confidence for that kind of evolution in the short term. "
FlyingSquid is the same mod who has the power to siteban people from lemmy.world
Why does lemmy.world keep having issues with their powermods and admins? Why do powermods get the ability to siteban their enemies from the largest instance?
I’m not sure how FlyingSquid is the bad guy here when Blackbeard is the one going around DMing Lemmy users off-platform about their reports. If you disagree with the reported content, then dismiss it. Blackbeard is the one who instigated this by opening a DM with FlyingSquid to begin with. Blackbeard doesn’t understand how to be a mod, it seems.
This thread is garbage. OP is bad and should feel bad.
This is what I don’t get about “report abuse”. It’s entirely in their power to completely ignore reports they think are unnecessary or in bad faith. They do nothing unless the mod acts on them. I got an instance ban for reporting someone that instantly resorted to cursing and insults after a minor correction from me. Apparently someone else reported the same comment (shocking) and the admin decided it was “brigading” 🙄
Well I don’t know or really care who was in the right there but you should know even paid platforms have issues getting bogged down with meaningless reports. Like BlueSky, because they decided to humor you libs and your hall monitor personalities.
So especially on here yeah, the chief concern is removing illegal shit and blatantly horrible crap. Everyone acting like a cop combined with a democrat campaign worker is asking a lot of people who do this for free.
Pretty sure asking people to not flood the moderator view with garbage rather than immediately banning them for it is more polite but go off. These nerds clearly feel comfortable having their mod chats on Discord.
From Squid’s response, it’s clear he would prefer to be banned outright so he can complain. That’s why he’s doing the whole “I’ll just go if you don’t like how I flood you with reports” thing