Well hello again everybody! This has been a wonderful past couple of days. I want to give a huge thank you to everybody who participated in my Under New Management post from Thursday. There was a lot of great feedback, and it will go a long way to helping me better understand all of your wants and needs for this community. Yay!

Yes, this will be wordy. Read it anyway. I will try to be concise.

I spent the entirety of Thursday afternoon and evening working through the over 600 reports that existed for the community. There are still a little less than 200 more left to work through. To be fully transparent, I was given the option of simply mass clearing all of the reports so that I could start with a clean slate. Halfway through, it was very tempting to take the powers-that-be (PtB) up on their generous offer. 😅 But, I wanted to see the reports and see what was being reported (and also by whom). Again, this is my way of learning about this community and its members.

The first thing I want to say is this: for the time being, I have decided that @beep@piefed.world is allowed to stay – with conditions. I have reached out privately to them about their past behavior, and they conveyed that they will respect the rules going forward. I have conveyed back to them that their continued use of the community is contingent on their ability to not break the rules going forward (especially with the alteration of comics). With this said, I fully expect this to ruffle quite a few of those proverbial feathers. But, for better or for worse, the decision is made. Please do not report their posts/comments merely because of who they are. If you do report them for anything, do it because it actually breaks the rules (be sure to be specific about what rules).

With this out of the way, I also want to take a moment to welcome the following people to our moderation team:

They have each reached out in some capacity to ask for this job, and I see no reason to not bring them aboard to help out. I expect that they will do their very best to ensure that this community, and its visitors, are treated fairly and with the upmost respect they deserve. Let’s be sure that they get the same in return. Everyone made it a strong point that we are all adults here, so let’s be sure to act like it.

  • Harvey656@lemmy.worldM
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    15 days ago

    EDIT: Oof Lemmy mod tools are poopy, I will find the proper comment in a moment

    EDIT 2: Just use the report tool, and stop calling people fascists when they don’t agree with you.

    Next time, use the report button. This behavior WILL get you banned. I’ll look into your history to see if I can find this person, but if you don’t start treating people like humans, I will always consider the comment a break of Rule 1.

    • Bloomcole@lemmy.world
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      15 days ago

      you’ve cherrypicked that (justified) one while ALL my comments got removed.
      Here is the post

      And now the removal of said comments is no longer visible in my modlog!
      WTF is happening here?

      • Harvey656@lemmy.worldM
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        15 days ago

        To my untrained eye, looks like the person is asking for love not hate. Ther wordage isnt perfect but not thay bad.

        • Bloomcole@lemmy.world
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          15 days ago

          OK, you choose to see nothing wrong with that.

          I will use the same tricks from now on to avoid your double standards.
          and simply say you seem to be an hasbara apologist and you are sounding like a Reddit zionist planted scumbag mod.

            • Bloomcole@lemmy.world
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              15 days ago

              you can go away now and stop talking to me, it seems I’m sick of you and I’m sure you have a lot more posts to scavenge for anti-genocider comments and censor them.

    • Bloomcole@lemmy.world
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      15 days ago

      zionists and genociders are de facto fascists.

      I can’t call them that, yet when they use a simple semantic trick and say “You are talking like a fascist” to me or “you start to seem like a psycho” that’s OK?

      BTW your last remark “if you don’t start treating people like humans” sounds suspiciously like that same, guy who seems like a real hasbara cunt (see what I did there?) who writes “Talk about humans as if they’re humans”

      So is that your alt account or what?

      • Harvey656@lemmy.worldM
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        15 days ago

        I only have a single account.

        The problem is beyond just calling people fascists, you threaten them, use terrible language and treat people poorly in general.

        I dont want use the mod powers I was granted, I like this place, and want it to flourish without bad actors. Please tone it down.