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ID: photo of two friends looking at a phone together, laughing, above is text: "Hitting "delete" after reading the first sentence of an entire essay that some bigoted potato took the time to write in my comments."
Me seeing “More replies” under my comment that won’t unfold because it’s probably someone I blocked:
Don't insult potatoes like that!
Is there a way to "shadow delete" a comment or shadow ban a person on lemmy so that they do not know their bigotry is being silenced?
i'm not convinced that shadow bans are actually beneficial
I'm not sure from a mod or admin point of view (while I am a mod in one community as a backup, I've not done any moderating myself), but I know that if you block a person on your own account, the only indication they'd have is that you don't reply.
From what I understand it's actually quite a difficult issue to address on the fediverse, since content is mirrored on so many instances, deleting or blocking it on one would have very little to no impact on other instances, and obviously ban evasion is much harder to spot, since anyone can open as many accounts on as many instances as they like. I would imagine it makes it really hard to stay on top of shit that comes in, especially the worst things like abusive content containing children.
With federation, not really.
cue other bigot that thinks that this makes it an echo chamber
depends, if you are banning me for using slurs I wouldn't think you're in an echo chamber, even if I was the biggest bigot on this planet, however, people on lemmy have banned me for stating my opinions like "I don't want to live in an autocracy" or "kamala is still better than trump"
They're welcome to scream in to the void until they're blue in the face, I won't be listening 😂
"why don't you respond to criticism"
I had to look up what platform let's you delete other people's comments. Is this an Instagram joke?
I thought it was about mods.
Lmao that perspective actually makes it even funnier
Mod privilege is being able to erase bigots with a click of a button
Also why good moderation is so important
I agree, moderation is important.
How do we keep moderators accountable, so the system continues to function? Is there someone checking them?
The mod log is entirely visible for anyone to view. Anyone can see who we ban and why, comments we remove and why. Posts have been made in the past about mod action that were effective.
One thing I don't understand yet is what kind of appeal system is intended on Lemmy if one doesn't want to resort to ban evasion.
Do DMs to instance admins still go through?
unspecified MtF person: oh you silly billy, unspecified straight onlooker: haven't heard that in a long time, bigot: absolute scream of rage.
this came into my head when some random time i heard silly billy being used and I've been wanting to get it out ever since.
Reminds me of "goof", which was used endearingly in my family growing up, like "silly goof". Later, when my circle overlapped with some wannabe gangsters, I find out some considered it one of the worst insults you could give.