Hi there. The community !linuxmemes@lemmy.world seems to be unmoderated. The only registered moderator @Linuxmemed@lemmy.world has been inactive since ~2 months. I’d like to be added as a mod to weed out blatantly racist and other unacceptable content like this: Lol! So true.. I’ve been a regular in r/linuxmemes, have switched to lemmy, and would like !linuxmemes@lemmy.world not to become a shithole.
You got my vote.
FinalBoy1975@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Hey there! The moderator of that community is actually modding. Last activity as a mod, according to the mod log was 17 hours ago. From what I can see, the mod removed the racist post you’ve linked to and banned the account that posted it. It looks like the offending user didn’t like being banned and logged into an alternative account and reposted the same meme just 34 minutes ago. It also looks like the moderator, just a month ago, asked for help modding the community and didn’t get too many responses. I’m sure they would love getting some help with modding from you. But, to say they are not doing their job is inaccurate. Unfortunately, there are some users who just insist on re-posting content that was removed and they get irritated when they’re banned, so they do it again from another account. Dealing with these people is like a game of whack-a-mole.
_cnt0@unilem.org 11 months ago
Weird. I looked into lemmy.world mod log and filtered for them: the latest action shown to me was 4 days ago … maybe a bug in the filter mechanism? Also, the post from yesterday is still visible to me on unilem.org. That seems to be a federation issue though, with posts not reliably getting removed on federated instances. If I look at linuxmemes via lemmy.world, the post is indeed gone. I saw in the mod’s profile, that they posted something concerning moderation, but trying to view that only threw an error for me. The overall lemmy experience seems to be still quite buggy.
TL;DR: You are right and the mod is still active. For a slew of reasons/bugs it looked otherwise to me. But I should have looked more closely.
Anyways, I’ve written to them and linked to this post.
FinalBoy1975@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Good, I’m glad you wrote them and I hope you help them out with moderating the community. I might be able to see a more updated version of the modlog because I’m a moderator? Also, when I use Firefox to navigate to lemmy world on my phone I often have to reload the page because the browser loads what I had previously viewed. So, I think there could be something weird going on with web browser caches. Anyway, federation sometimes creates hiccups, also. What you can see from one instance might not be visible from another.