Also, if you are concerned with ‘risking your rights’ by promoting a productive discussion, you probably lack the trust inherent to working as part of a healthy team. This may not be your fault, as in many cases abuse is rampant. The key to online communities is they are rarely required in the course of someones life, and you have the option to disengage from them when they are not healthy.
Patnou@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Well it is usually my fault. I came from Reddit. And if I take care of something I usually send a private message to the user providing why I thought the way I did. That way it won’t seem like report abuse. Thing on Reddit was it was always that automod crap and nothing behind it. And if you tried to complain about it, it would be 3 or 4 days by the time an actual mod would get back to you. And by that time everyone just skipped over whatever it was so it was useless.
rosahaj@piefed.blahaj.zone 2 days ago
Federated communities currently have the benefit of very little automated moderator activity, and being much smaller than communities on reddit. What you describe is just an unfortunate reality of communities that have grown too big for their moderation capacity. Another possibility is too little moderation, and both have their downsides. It really is a shame, though. If it helps at all, I believe you’ll be mostly free from those concerns here at the present, in my experience :)