news: .world world news mod removed from world news

I cannot repost what Flying Squid was posting here, because it involved highly disturbing and dangerous content, including:

While this behavior is shocking, it’s not completely out of left field, as members of this community and platform will already be familiar with their behavior. Flying Squid has long been regarded as one of the least productive and most problematic mods on all of Lemmy, often picking fights and abusing their mod privileges. I view this change as a positive step for Squid, .world, and Lemmy as a whole.

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Looked up the modlogs. What the actual fuck.
That said, this whole episode and the comment deletions with the "we can't share this" reasons kinda show how Lemmy is better than Reddit in that modlogs are public.
I find it great that mods can't outright delete stuff, only hide it. It lets them do the job of cleaning up convos of spam and trolls without the unchecked power aspect to it.
- Am I crazy or is the modlog missing heaps?
  I control-f for the 'I to complain?' part of the post above and don't see anything. Just trying to follow the argument is confusing as hell? It sounds like someone doxxed FS, and he got suicidal over it? I hope gets some help if he's seriously feeling like that.
  
  Yeah, admins can purge stuff from the mod log. That comment seems to be completely gone.
  
  The modlog, as far as I can tell, gets sorted in the same order as user profiles do, by default. Which is to say "here's some recent stuff okay let's skip over some stuff hey here's some random stuff from two months ago that's pretty good right? I have been drinking FYI."
  I could be wrong about this. I definitely feel like I have seen it be missing stuff even without mod purges though. Searching for the specific community or specific user / moderator you're looking for is usually pretty reliable, as long as there aren't pages and pages of results, then the same issue seems like it might occur.

Both of them are fucking insane. To devote this much energy to weirdos on the internet is deranged. They both need to devote their energy to better things, as evidenced by the fact that I had to press "show context" on their comment thread so many times I lost patience. I thought everyone on Lemmy was better than this. I dont care what the original cause of the disagreement was at this rate because EVERY step of the way, one of them couldve turned on do not disturb or gone to an alt account or SOMETHING. If either of you are seeing this, you can do better. Flying Squid specifically? Threatening suicide is the number one way to look immature (of every kind), especially over a stranger on the internet. Do. Better.
Edit: If someone could give a kind description of what the drama was even all about, I'd appreciate it. I can't bear to dig through either of their histories.
- And the sick thing is we have been CALLING THIS GUY OUT FOREVER. The .world admins are ABSOLUTELY partially at fault for this for letting this user have the power they have had for so fucking long. Sorry for shouting I’m upsetti. 🙃
  +1 to your edit though. The content was so vile and triggering, I was not up to the task. So, fair warning to anyone who wants to further investigate a case where every party is so obviously in the wrong. Tread carefully.
  
  we have been CALLING THIS GUY OUT FOREVER
  The mods aren't the only ones at fault either. He got so much support for this insanity. Call out his BS? Get asked for evidence. Provide text book evidence and it isn't enough. Be clearly in the right from a PTB and downvoted 10:1. The one time he's not technically being a PTB, but rather exhibiting symptoms of manic-depression, and people defend him saying 'this post isn't appropriate' when the history makes it absolutely so. All you upvoting MFs in the past have been cheering a clearly insane person, so maybe do a personal inventory of what seems rational to you and double check reality eh?
  I'd be cheering for his removal except he's still mod of a few communities I'd like to participate in. L.W admins need to delete all his content and ban the IP address. I for one can't wait to never see that name on Lemmy ever again and I know I'm not alone.
- I'm fine with looking at this stuff. It seems FS is having a mental health episode, and this is the result. It's not drama.
  
  FS does have BPD if i recall. I'm no professional on BPD, but this might be related.
  I honestly feel bad for him, i never hated him but it must be tiring for an entire community to hate you, while you're already depressed; and then shit like this happens.
  I hope he's okay.

I'm not celebrating, the guy is threatening suicide, and posting pictures of it. He needs to get off the Internet and seek help immediately.
I've messaged @lwreport@lemmy.world about it, I suggest you all do the same.
- ::: spoiler Yes (Content Warning)
  Unfortunately, this type of behavior, including threats of self-harm, is not uncommon on the internet and can sometimes be used as an emotional manipulation tactic. However, discussions of suicidal ideation are very sensitive and can be harmful if not handled carefully. Let’s focus on reporting this to the moderators while remaining careful and sensitive in how we address this topic.
  :::

What is the point of this post, when there's no actual details as to what was posted? The key images seem to have been deleted off server, and without that it's extremely difficult to pick up the context.
- Because of the content of the offending material it’s really hard to put the full info in a post without breaking terms of service. You are welcome to make your own post if you feel you can do better! :)
  
  No, I have no idea what the context is. Hence my comment, because this is all drama without any info.
- The modlog shows the conversation. The person in question seems to have a breakdown and offers to commit suicide on stream for someone who they claim want them dead.

BPR
But they didn’t act in moderation but as a user so the only actual mod action here is Jordan and it’s justified to remove that comment chain.
- Exactly. And while FS may have been a PTB in general, this isn't really an example of it, it's just sad.
  
  edit: replied to wrong comment original conversation here

If this post was about Flying Squid banning you then I'd get the relevance to this community. Otherwise it's just drama imo.
- There are enough posts complaining about FlyingSquid moderation here for this one to be relevant
  Edit: actually, couldn't find any actual report about power tripping from FlyingSquid, so if anyone has anything, feel free to share
- i disagree personally i think this post certainly falls under “bans or other sanctions from mods” as outlined in the sidebar
  
  Who was power tripping in this example?

they still moderate the following communities
!startrek@lemmy.world
!lemmyshitpost@lemmy.world
!tenforward@lemmy.world
!outofcontextcomics@lemmy.world

why is it not there anymore?
- Yeah that's a bit concerning, the modlog has been tampered with so much.
  This is certainly mod/admin overreach. I'd say it could almost be its own post.

May I have a link to the modlog?
- https://sopuli.xyz/modlog
  Filter by user, then you can search within that.

Im on Lemmy far more than I'd like to admit. Im always so confused when I see Squid hate. Ive never seen him say anything that's not equal to what the other person is saying.
I can't even see this "episode".
I think there are people that take it waaaay too seriously when they see someone else is a mod. Mods are just you and me, but they have a more active role in whatever community. You can be a mod anytime you'd like. Simply create a community and voila! You are now a hated person.
Ive been banned from multiple places and couldn't care any less about who banned me, or who the mods are. Grow up and chill out.
Anywhoo that's my 2 crumbs. Enjoy the rest of your weekend everyone!
- Im on Lemmy far more than I’d like to admit.
  My friend, I'm with you. And I actually get called troll and a bot, because "no one could be on Lemmy that much!!" Um what? I get accused of being a bot and I don't think I'm even on a lot. lol
  Ive been banned from multiple places and couldn’t care any less about who banned me, or who the mods are. Grow up and chill out.
  100 percent this.
  Unless someone is posting something illegal, advocating violence/threats, or is doxxing, I think ANY and ALL bans are lame and come from power-hungry losers.

Why don’t the Redditor stay there.
- i’m saying like-

Okay I tried to go through the modlog and the comment screenshot that you censored is removed from the modlog?!? How the fuck in censorship that bad on this platform. I might as well use tiktok
- If you read further down it is discussed why it was removed.
  
  Removed from the mod log tho? I don't see anywhere explaining that

Fuck yeah 🤘

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