Comment on Asking for moderator Rooki's removal for misconduct
lwadmin@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Hi all,
For the sake of transparency, we are responding here, as remaining silent will also send a message to the community. We are actively reviewing all the information posted in this thread and all other linked sources. The entire team is being brought up to speed on the events that have taken place, but this process may take some time. We are all in different time zones, and many of us have professional and personal obligations that may take priority. Please bear with us, as there is a lot to review. We promise that after our review, we will respond to the community.
Thank you.
The FHF / LW Admin Team
goferking0@lemmy.sdf.org 4 weeks ago
Any updates or this more of a week to month wait?
Rose@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Looking at the modlog, Rooki reinstated the two !vegan moderators and restored one of the mods’ comments about an hour ago. Rooki also edited their own comment referenced in the OP to say the following:
Personally, I’m not fully satisfied if that is the end of it. The changes look like Rooki admitting that the issue is not clear-cut, but Rooki’s conduct as a moderator has to reflect the rules, not something as arbitrary as Rooki’s level of disagreement with someone’s views at the given time.
Nobody should have to convince Rooki that something is not misinformation. Rooki (or any other instance moderator) must not even think of interfering on that basis. The word “misinformation” is not in the rules in any shape or form. If anything, the rules side more with the community moderators’ judgement by saying “Your participation in individual communities will only be acceptable on the condition that you abide by their rules.”
neurospice@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 weeks ago
I love how this comment is how I find out what’s happened
Rose@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
In the absence of announcements, my understanding is that it’s highly unlikely that Rooki will be removed for the misconduct.
Firstly, it doesn’t take a team of two admins and seven moderators nearly a week to investigate a matter involving a handful of comments and six users. Secondly, if it were a broader investigation into Rooki’s overall conduct, you’d expect Rooki to at least be asked to pause their moderator activity for the duration, but Rooki continues to ban people and remove comments.
Ironically, one of the users banned by Rooki for trolling today is EndlessApollo, whose comment and subsequent ban by !vegan launched the whole chain of events.
goferking0@lemmy.sdf.org 3 weeks ago
O/U on if they actually do a statement?
Beaver@lemmy.ca 4 weeks ago
At least they admitted fault and learned a lesson.
However I’m also not adequately satisfied with this behaviour. This is an egregious example of someone not understanding how community works and then stepping in to boss them around about something they know little about.
I’m calling on the Lemmy.World team to appointment a vegan admin to oversee the community of !vegan@lemmy.world and for the removal of Rooki as an admin.
Blaze@sopuli.xyz 4 weeks ago
I would probably consider that community lost and promote the other ones on the other instances as much as possible
vga@sopuli.xyz 4 weeks ago
Why should we care if you are?
goferking0@lemmy.sdf.org 4 weeks ago
More than I expected. Still wonder if they’ll actually say something