I want to give my side of the story.

I removed one of person’s comment on the political community because it was reported, from what I can recall, it was a very long, borderline QAnon level rant that was antagonizing other users for essentially not buying into their conspiracy theory, which we took very seriously here.

This person was not even banned, and the modlog can confirm that.

I have had literally zero interaction with this person in any form other than this single comment removal. I have never sent this person a single DM or reply, and I think our admins can confirm that.

When I woke up the next morning, I saw 4 already removed reply to my comments from this person, and it appears that this person has already purged their own account.

Since we still ask submission title to match that of the article as part of the rule, please update your title.

That’s a reasonable and well thought out answer, I can accept that.

Does this apply to Donetsk and Luhansk as well?

Want to make sure you are internally consistent here.

Thank you.

Please update your submission title to reflect a potential change in the article title, as current rule does ask that they match.

I do think we allow different perspectives views to be discussed here, even though they are not views that I necessarily agree with. I tried to only remove comments and ban for what I think crosses the line beyond reasonable discussion into disruption.

There were many comments that were reported to me that I’m not quite sure about removing, but I do believe acting fast is preferable to being indecisive not acting. If you felt that your comment was removed by our error, you can discuss it in the feedback.

I’m open to criticism.

Noted. I would suggest that you use an archive link in not as a replacement but in addition to the link submission to ensure the article in question can be seen in the future.

This is not a news article, it’s a picture of a graph.

In the interest of discussion here, I’ll leave it up this time.

Please report this to us earlier, or, if you think our rule about articles only is unfair, I would like to hear your thoughts on if this should be allowed in the future.

This is US internal news, normally we would remove it, but in the interest of discussion, I would like to know if you think this should be allowed or not.

Perhaps the rule should be better clarified as “submission should be an internationally significant event”?

Please list the specific comments from the mod log.

Due to how the current version of Lemmy UI on LW works, I can’t restore comments that has been removed by other mods, so you will have tell us which ones that we removed that you think is unfair.

This post was removed for being a video, and not an article.

In the interest of transparency, this post is restored but will be locked. Please discuss if we should revise this rule in our feedback thread.

I don’t think it is needed, considering !world@lemmy.world is still relatively slow compared to many similar comms, and the latest lemmy.ml’s Israel Palestine megathread did not get much traction and sat at 0 comments for a very long time.

There are many potential reasons that could be, such as relative lack of societal experience in a different country, trust in fellow countrymen due to language barrier, as well as loneliness due the lack of local support structure.

However, to suggest there is a “cultural tendency toward deference to authority” for the Chinese as if they are some kind of hive mind instead of individual people is discriminatory stereotyping. Please refrain from this in the future.

This article would be more appropriate for the politics community, since it is an opinion article from the interview of Peter Simi regarding Trump.

I would not consider this as news.

I apologize, and I do think changes are needed here.

As a first step, I have unbanned @naturalgasbad@lemmy.ca, as from the conversation detailed below, what he has done does not warrant a permanent ban at all.

I do take feedback extremely seriously, however, please allow us some time to figure out our next steps.

Note that Ukrinform is Ukranian state media.

I can tell you that the mod in the exchange with naturalgasbad and the mod who removed the comments are different.

Nevertheless, dismissing valid concerns about inconsistency in rule enforcement, threats of escalating bans, talking down to our community as children, as well as using mod power to remove valid criticism, as YoBuck has demonstrated, are all unacceptable behavior for LW moderators moving forward and will not be tolerated.

I have requested the moderators in question to apologize here, and based on the sincerity they demonstrate, I would be recommending further actions from our admin team.