Very succinct and includes 99% of the situation. Thanks, and well done.
Only things I would add would be:
Being a moderator on lemmy and not knowing that modlogs are public is baffling. That alone really outlines the fact he was unqualified for the role.
And that it seems pretty obvious the comments were only deleted by him to hide his own. He had already shown an inability to be measured and collected, as well as a poor understanding of the platform from a moderation perspective. Then, his clear disregard for the only rule for the community by lashing out at something that could have been more easily dismissed entirely. He should have just deleted the comment without a response. My mildly stupid comment just did not deserve that kind of reaction.
It all serves as solid evidence that he was willing to abuse his mod role for something so minor, and a person like that wouldn’t stop there.
The real cherry on top is how pathetic it is to go to mastodon to complain about the public mod logs on lemmy.
It was a single small incident out of (assuming) months of moderation and he later stepped down.
I am asking you to have some empathy, your comments make the situation look like he was being a master manipulator when all he had was an ego problem and a conflict of interest.
We’re humans, we do stupid things. Just because he is a bad moderator (because many people who get moderator status often end up abusing it) and did a single bad incident shouldn’t invalidate his blog nor it should mean he is an awful person.
Very succinct and includes 99% of the situation. Thanks, and well done.
Only things I would add would be: Being a moderator on lemmy and not knowing that modlogs are public is baffling. That alone really outlines the fact he was unqualified for the role.
And that it seems pretty obvious the comments were only deleted by him to hide his own. He had already shown an inability to be measured and collected, as well as a poor understanding of the platform from a moderation perspective. Then, his clear disregard for the only rule for the community by lashing out at something that could have been more easily dismissed entirely. He should have just deleted the comment without a response. My mildly stupid comment just did not deserve that kind of reaction.
It all serves as solid evidence that he was willing to abuse his mod role for something so minor, and a person like that wouldn’t stop there.
The real cherry on top is how pathetic it is to go to mastodon to complain about the public mod logs on lemmy.
It was a single small incident out of (assuming) months of moderation and he later stepped down.
I am asking you to have some empathy, your comments make the situation look like he was being a master manipulator when all he had was an ego problem and a conflict of interest.
We’re humans, we do stupid things. Just because he is a bad moderator (because many people who get moderator status often end up abusing it) and did a single bad incident shouldn’t invalidate his blog nor it should mean he is an awful person.