This is inspired by this advice from a few months ago:

Stop giving shitty mods a free pass. Honest mistakes happen; but if the mod in question is assumptive, disingenuous, trigger-happy, or eager to enable certain shitty types of user, spread the word about their comm being poorly moderated. And don’t interact directly with the comm. I think that at least here in the Fediverse we should demand higher standards from our mods.

(Emphasis mine.)

In the past I have used places like [email protected] or [email protected] to call out mods on other subs, with mid-to-almost-high degrees of success, but I wonder if it would be better to have a dedicated sublemmy?

Here are my thoughts on what would make this effective:

  • probably shouldn’t be hosted on .world due to the breadth of possible conflicts of interest with admins
  • probably shouldn’t be hosted on .ml due to federation hurdles
  • mods of the community shouldn’t moderate any other communities of any significant size, in order to make the whole “accountability” thing work
  • mods should be willing and able to deal with substantial quantities of garbage posts because there would be a lot of “why won’t c/xyz let me be transphobic/say slurs 😡😡” type submissions which, left unaddressed, would outflood genuine criticism

This is still in conceptual form so I am interested what others think :)

  • spujb@lemmy.cafeOP
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    6 months ago

    TIL! pinging @[email protected] to see if they’re active and/or have thoughts.

    cuz yeah my most recent callout post went to [email protected] and a lot of people got really upset at me for being “off topic” 😓 (it was effective btw, yay!)

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      6 months ago

      Hey! Didn’t even know you could ping people. I’m not super active but I’m here every so often. What’s up?

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        6 months ago

        kind of already answered my question, just wanted to see if current moderators for !modlog were sufficiently active :) thanks for popping in to answer