Throwaway

Something I learned the very hard way, against my will, is when you have a user who is seriously against the mods, and doesn’t really care about the sub, it’s often best to just ban them.

Normally, the max I give is a week or two, long enough for most to move on, but some people just get obsessed. Others will literally ask to be banned. Those catch a perma.

Not saying the LW admins are right, but moderation is harder than it looks on the outside. Also ban evasion is basically a feature of Lemmy, it’s so easy, and a lot do it.

It sucks, mods suck, being a mod sucks, everything sucks.

Dunno, that soundy pretty crazy to me. Shouod send them to the loony bin

Its by state, not federal in America.

Oh, that’s probably just implants and/or photoshop

And there lies the actual problem. Is a fetus a person or not?

For all the leftists out there, remember that gun control is class warfare.

Well, yeah. Why do you think “They took our jobs” was so derided by corporate America?

Oh I’m plenty pissed at Trump, especially about bump stocks. I think most conservatives that actually care enough to post about it, hate politicians.

But the main thing is Biden could’ve addressed the border at any time.

When I first started, I was really anxious about not being a power tripping mod that I basically didn’t mod. It got to the point admins from other instances were stepping in, and that just wasn’t a good thing. The slap-fights were always an escalating thing, with no clear instigator, and I never did figure out if I should ban and who to ban. That was more of me specific issue, trying way too hard to be a good mod and making it worse.

Another thing was trying to figure out what actually counted as a conservative post, turns out theres a lot of gray area, and I fucked it up a couple times. That gray area killed me.

An easily avoidable mistake I made was the nazi ban. I should have banned name calling in general, but I wanted a clear keyword ban with zero gray area.

Those are the big three mistakes I made.