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I was going through the modlog today and found that this comment posted to lemmy.ml was simply removed for being "reactionary".

Removed Comment What reform of France's educational establishment would satisfy you? Should they move their weekends to Mondays and Tuesdays in order to avoid accidentally aligning with any religious practice's day of rest? This is a ridiculous standard to hold any societal institution to. Because France's dominant culture has been Christian for many years, its secular institutions of course have echoes of Christian practice within them - but this is not proof that they are Christian institutions. Education is good. Education should be given to every single person in society, and every person in it should have a right to receive a full secular education regardless of their parents' opinion on the matter. And during the course of that education, class, ethnic, and religious differences between children should be minimized in order to socialize children into being tolerant, metropolitan citizens. reason: reactionary

That sounds like a perfectly respectable position to have, even if it may be a little controversial, but it is more constructive than divisive. I really like lemmy's transparency in showing what was removed and why, but for the first time I'm seeing what looks like a summary removal of an urbane comment.

Am I the only one who is worried by that? Am I missing something here?

By the way, I'm not interested in debating the subject, there is plenty of debate in the original post, what I want to know is how any of you would frame this as decisively reactionary enough to throw out of a healthy debate when comparing with the flood of shitposting we see every day that doesn't get struck down.

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[โ€“] Kolossos@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Mods are humans. Humans are flawed. What does this have to do with Lemmy?

[โ€“] Gsus4@feddit.nl 12 points 1 year ago

One of the advantages of lemmy is the transparent modlog, where I see a) lots of thankless work mods perform I assume for free b) 99.99% bullshit that is not constructive in a public forum. I'm adjusting my expectations about the false positive removal rate considering how much useless comments get through.

[โ€“] Mothra@mander.xyz 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Wanted to check the original post but I'm getting a bad gateway error.

Out of context, there is nothing wrong with the comment. If I were the mod in charge, I probably wouldn't have removed it. However there is a chance maybe it is overreacting to the previous reply, or that the user is looking for controversial discussions all over the post just to upset people.

Or perhaps the mod really is at fault here, silencing an exchange of opinions because they have a strong stance on one side of the argument.

[โ€“] Gsus4@feddit.nl 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Added context: the removed comment is from a hexbear, which I find even more ironic, because it was one of the more level-headed ones :)

[โ€“] Mothra@mander.xyz 12 points 1 year ago

If they were being reactionary on a lot of other comments in the post then removing all of their comments in the post can be understandable as a means to stop that user from interacting any further. I'm not saying that was exactly the case, but that is sometimes a reason mods remove comments that have nothing reproachable.

[โ€“] wahming@monyet.cc 9 points 1 year ago

Eh. I got banned from a community on Beehaw because I said as a Chinese, I didn't have any opinions on Jews one way or another. Apparently that was antisemitic ๐Ÿคทโ€โ™‚๏ธ

[โ€“] Scew@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

Basically nothing as the other user said. Mods here are just as they were on Reddit. Petty tyrants if you say something that doesn't jive with their brainwashing.

[โ€“] neoney@lemmy.neoney.dev 4 points 1 year ago
[โ€“] JoYo@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

modlog entries should become their own thread and then mods can modlog the modlog.

[โ€“] Ado@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Welcome to Bob loblaws modlog

[โ€“] Nemo@midwest.social 2 points 1 year ago

"Lawless mods mob modlog; mod wrong" lobs non-mod

[โ€“] Emperor@feddit.uk 3 points 1 year ago
[โ€“] Navarian@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago

I only run a small community surrounding my home country, but I only plan on removing things that aren't directly related to the country or at least adjacent to. As well as anything that is largely irrelevant which I suspect of being spam.

Rest is fine, discussion is healthy. I don't need to agree with everyone, that isn't what this is about.

[โ€“] HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club 1 points 1 year ago

The devs have said there isn't an issue with how a community mods itself as the corrective action is for users to leave a sub if the moderators don't moderate to their liking.