Keep it civil, people. If there’s an issue with posting certain sources, that can be clarified as a community, not just spamming the same thing over and over.
Keep it civil, people. If there’s an issue with posting certain sources, that can be clarified as a community, not just spamming the same thing over and over.
perhaps if Lemmy gets to the point that communities can have posts up for days (or weeks) before admins see them, we can be more laxed and hands-off about moderation, but try to see it from our perspective. We’ve advertised Lemmy as a site free of liberals, free of the shitty hot-takes of reddit, but you - a new person in this case who’s only logged on for the first time - get on to see, instantly, multiple posts from propagandist sources that utilize xenophobia to make a point. That’s an instant turn off and would directly affect user retention. Same with the brigading and the trolls.
We don’t honestly want to have to remove posts, and we hope community moderators can do what they can to keep posts like the ones that have been removed to a minimum.
I see your perspective and agree with your concerns. However, I still think that fair moderation and delegation of authority should come before marketing the site’s image. Personally, I’d like to think that it would work better to point out in the comments, “hey, this source is biased,” rather than just remove it outright, and eventually people will look to better sources and create a higher community standard. After all, at this rate, people won’t see these articles, but what they will see is a major feud because of policies that were never made clear and seem to be enforced arbitrarily. Y’all have been doing a great job as admins, and I would really like to see this site succeed.
I’m not head admin so I won’t make promises, but we’ll do what we can to make our rules more clear, make our bans/removals better explained, and generally provide more autonomy and clarity.