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Where can we report a mod for abuse of power? (lemm.ee)

submitted 1 week ago by gravityowl@lemm.ee to c/lemmy_support@lemmy.ml

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I was wondering if there were systems in place for users to report mods who are just ignoring the code of conduct and just abusing their power of moderator as a whole?

I've seen that we could get in touch via Mastodon, but I don't have an account for that unfortunately and I was curious to know if there were other ways

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[–] PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat -2 points 1 week ago

I fail to see a useful distinction between me posting what I think, and a mod seeing it and deleting it, versus me posting what I think, someone reporting it, and then the mod deleting it. In both cases someone's standing over me policing what viewpoints I'm allowed to express, which is bad.

I actually do get why someone would want to delete "tankie," since it could be taken as a gratuitous insult. And I do get mod fatigue and running out of care to give as an underlying issue for a lot of this. I think a big part of the underlying issue is depending on volunteer moderators to keep the whole system together and making basically unlimited demands on them. I was just talking about the general censorship problem on lemmy.ml, not trying to say that every case is always power tripping mods.