Community for moderation accountability?
Community for moderation accountability? - Lemmy Cafe
This is inspired by this advice [https://mander.xyz/comment/10625495] from a few months ago: > Stop giving shitty mods a free pass. Honest mistakes happen; but if the mod in question is assumptive, disingenuous, trigger-happy, or eager to enable certain shitty types of user, spread the word about their comm being poorly moderated. And don’t interact directly with the comm. I think that at least here in the Fediverse we should demand higher standards from our mods. (Emphasis mine.) In the past I have used places like [email protected] [/c/[email protected]] [https://lemmy.world/c/lemmyshitpost] or [email protected] [/c/[email protected]] [https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/c/196] to call out mods on other subs, with mid-to-almost-high degrees of success, but I wonder if it would be better to have a dedicated sublemmy? Here are my thoughts on what would make this effective: - probably shouldn’t be hosted on .world due to the breadth of possible conflicts of interest with admins - probably shouldn’t be hosted on .ml due to federation hurdles - mods of the community shouldn’t moderate any other communities of any significant size, in order to make the whole “accountability” thing work - mods should be willing and able to deal with substantial quantities of garbage posts because there would be a lot of “why won’t c/xyz let me be transphobic/say slurs 😡😡” type submissions which, left unaddressed, would outflood genuine criticism This is still in conceptual form so I am interested what others think :)