this post was submitted on 17 Oct 2024
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Ye Power Trippin' Bastards
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This is a community in the spirit of "Am I The Asshole" where people can post their own bans from lemmy or reddit or whatever and get some feedback from others whether the ban was justified or not.
Sometimes one just wants to be able to challenge the arguments some mod made and this could be the place for that.
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Wow, much drama.
It sounds like adding one sentence to the effect that the ratings are centered using the USA metric would go so very far. Like adding units to a temperature measurement - someone could argue that they prefer Celsius (or Kelvin or whatever) to Fahrenheit, but at least Fahrenheit is better than no unit designation at all.
But the admins and mods also seem so very, very tired of all the BS that they have to wade through, that they aren't all that receptive anymore. I sympathize.
Part of the drama seems to be that buried underneath all the REEEEE responses, there are legitimate underlying worldview/POV issues, namely whether a bad implementation of a good idea is at all helpful vs. the purity argument that nothing that I don't like can be allowed to exist.
And ultimately, while I did see one heartwarming exception (backed up with admin support by calling for such), the vast majority of people simply complain about wanting better-er-est service entirely for free. As opposed to making an alternative, e.g. a different news community on Lemmy, which would require actual effort put forth by people volunteering their time as mods. Which probably should be done anyway to avoid the monolithic mega-community structures that we all tried to get away from on Reddit - and has been done in at least two cases, though most people commenting seemed entirely unaware of that.
And then the justification issue on top of all of that messy background as well.
There's a long history of text discussion forums where a sizable number of the users get up in arms like this, and it usually precedes people abandoning the forum. It happened on Slashdot, then Digg, and recently on Reddit.
The people who post the stories and write the comments create the forum and make it continue. I'm not trying to discount the hard, unappreciated work that mods and administrators do. But there seems to be this common misperception that because they do that hard, unappreciated work, it's okay for them to ignore the community when it speaks with a clear and cohesive voice that something is a problem. People have all kinds of options for where to spend their "typing on the internet" time, and it's pretty easy to switch.
Maybe it's because anyone who's in that moderation role is accustomed to dealing with people whining about nonsense, and a lot of members of the community making a big deal about stuff that doesn't matter, and so it's sometimes hard for them to recognize a valid concern that's widely shared by the community. I don't know. Like I say, I'm not trying to say I don't appreciate the unrewarding work of moderation. But "it's not that important" cuts both ways. If you treat your forum and the way people want it to be as a bunch of distracting noise, they're going decide you're a waste of time and go on their way, and once that reputation as a shit pile is solidly established about a particular forum, it tends to be permanent.
Very well put.