this post was submitted on 19 Oct 2023
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Really quite sad that I was removed without any sort of communication or a chance to respond, I have spent months removing posts and comments that were against the code of conduct. I have responded to criticism regarding the moderation of the community in the past and the way this has occurred has broken my heart about a community i cared about.
I'll share some recent quotes from messages I've sent to other mods and admins:
"Hello I wanted to send a message to say that I am interested in helping more. I really like lemmy.world and want the platform to succeed and want to help."
"Even if another is chosen for these roles I would be happy to help as a community moderator to help lemmy.world grow and continue to be the best lemmy instance! Thanks for everything you and the admin team do 🙂"
I tend to lean towards transparency in all things, so I'll just say I have no direct knowledge of what drama may have led to the mod turnover. I just raised my hand when someone asked for volunteers. :)
So I'm here now and I bear no one ill will. Consider this a blank slate from here forward.
I'm a native Oregonian and one of my heroes was Tom McCall who was our governor from 1967 to 1974. While he's best known for saying "We want you to visit our State of Excitement often. Come again and again. But for heaven's sake, don't move here to live. Or if you do have to move in to live, don't tell any of your neighbors where you are going."
But he ALSO said "Heroes are not giant statues framed against a red sky, they are people who say "This is my community and it's my responsibility to make it better.'"
would you be willing to add me back to the team? I did nothing wrong and care about the world news community?
I can't UNILATERALLY make that decision. Well, I mean, technically I COULD, but it wouldn't be RESPONSIBLE moderation to do that on my own. Let me just say that I'll raise the issue and see what turns up. Fair?
I don't really have much choice but thank you
I spoke with admin and they cleared you for modding duty. Look for my PM. :)
We were not informed the other mods were removed, we were asked to assist. We will be in contact with you on that.
thank you, I don't really care about top mod and if i made some big mistake to be demoted from that i only wish to know so i can do better. If the admins don't want me to be a moderator any more i would appreciate knowing what I did wrong for closure. I have been removed from the discord when removed from being a moderator so can only communicate here.
I have little idea what occurred. We are going to square things away, fix the copyright issues and sync things to align with c/news and c/politics so the three communities work in conjunction with similar rules and style.
The admins said their concern was with copyright and timely responses to reports.
I have constantly had timely response to reports they can look at my mod actions or actions on reports for that. The sidebar is currently as I had last changed it, so you can see that posting full articles or using a means to by-pass paywalls are forbidden. I personally have removed posts that violated that rule. As far as I knew the /c/world community was in sync with the us focused c/news and c/politics communities and was never told of anything that was wrong. A large part of why this was so upsetting to me as I had no communication or warning, just I wake up to be removed from moderation and removed from the discord. Thank you for acting as an intermediary.
I agree, it feels like there may have been some personality conflicts here.