Let’s see who’s subbed to this /c/…
All of a sudden everyone was gone and moved over to tenforward@lemmy.world, what happened?
Especially when the post or comment is only being seen or involves maybe … 10 people? … sometimes less. Lemmy is still in its infancy right now … and it may grow, or it may not.
It’s a whole other story if the content being discussed is being argued over by hundreds or thousands of users.
When a mod is just axing, deleting and threatening users who are just interacting with two, three or maybe a dozen people … what does it matter?
The only time it would become an issue is if you had an obvious nutjob just posting all kinds of ugly random shit all over the place. Otherwise, just let users and the community grow organically in whatever way it wants and over time when you get those hundreds or thousands of users instantly joining into every conversation, then you can start heavily moderating content.
The true meaning of “The customer is always right”. The community may be moving towards something you (as a mod) didn’t anticipate, but they’re obviously there for a reason. Give them what they want or they’ll move onto somewhere that can. Forcing people into a set of rules may seem like a short term solution, but really it just hurts the community.
At this stage of Lemmy’s growth … mods are just babysitters … they should just let the kids play whatever they want in whatever way they please, as long as no one is hurting each other … or to weed out that crack baby that is flinging its own feces at others and wants to eat the furniture.
