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It seems some higher level moderation of communities may be required (lemmy.blahaj.zone)

submitted 4 days ago by almost1337@lemm.ee to c/meta@lemm.ee

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/22062206

Lemm.ee Conservative Community has had an Elon Nazi salute post up for two days now.

IDK about other people but it makes me feel sick to the stomach being federated with such content. I don't really have any problems with Lemm.ee as a whole but I feel like having an uncritical Nazi salute on the network goes against everything Blahaj stands for.

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[–] beneeney@lemm.ee 10 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Hi Lemm.ee, and @almost1337 -

Sorry for the late resolution on this. As @JuiceMachine said yesterday, the post is now removed. So is the non-Lemm.ee user that posted it.

Our admin team has a general philosophy to remain as unbiased as possible, and to not over-police content on Lemm.ee. As the sidebar says, the rules are simple. We will typically leave things up and let the downvotes speak for themselves. However I will agree: that post should not have stood for 2 days like it did. !Conservative@lemm.ee might be the most controversial community on this instance, and I feel that we have not been able to properly manage it. This is due partly to technical limitations and several moderation quirks of Lemmy. Specifically: When a user reports a post in a community, the report goes to that community's moderators, as well as the instance admins. When one of those parties resolves the report (with or without action), it disappears from everyone's report queue. That being said, we (the admin team) almost never see reports from !Conservative@lemm.ee. Putting 2 and 2 together, something is definitely wrong.

I want to be transparent about our next steps. At this point in time, we are not planning on deleting the community, but we have removed the mods. Step 1 is to observe the report queue ourselves for a bit, and then make a decision. We don't want to censor unpopular views, and we also don't want to harbor the hateful content that sparked this post. Please continue to report and let us know.

Thank you!

[–] TGhost@lemm.ee 5 points 2 days ago

We don’t want to censor unpopular views, and we also don’t want to harbor the hateful content that sparked this post. Please continue to report and let us know.

With conservative communities, you don't take this risk by avoiding them. They harbor disinformation and harmful content, even if it isn't expressed in a direct way. In our current context, they are harmful by nature.

Even if these communities did not exist, we would still encounter their viewpoints (conservative) in other contexts, one way or another. For example, a discussion about unionization in video games within a gaming-related community will still include their views.