Its almost as if the system of unpaid volunteer moderators has its limits.

I'm here on Lemmy because as limited as the system of unpaid volunteer moderators is... its better than the CEO of Reddit who has begun to influence the discussion from the top down. If there is a system of unpaid volunteer moderators, at least they should be supported. And Lemmy seems to be place for that.

Farewell 15 hour old novelty account. We hardly knee ye.

So… if you don’t get to say whatever you want with zero consequences, you threaten to leave?

Enjoy the walk back to Reddit, and tell the bots we said hello!

We're all very sad about whatever you're being offended by when adults are in the room.

You left reddit because of mods... not the other million things spez and co has done? Have fun on the next platform, friend.

Part of the reason why I nuked entire discussions is because its an effective way to stop the downvoting, dogpiling, and snarkiness. I'm doing what I can here. Its a big topic, I'm not going to be here all day and I'm the only moderator. I'm ultimately going to have to trust all of you to be on better behavior when I leave to do my things today.

Real talk. I'm trying to set up the conditions for this thread to work out even in my limited absences. I cannot promise prompt deletions or even "fairness" in these circumstances. Chances are, I'm going to come back and there's going to be 5 hours of back-and-forth trash, downvoting, yadda yadda. I'm not an idiot, I can see and 100% expect that this will happen. When that happens, I'll have no choice but to delete the whole sub-discussion, starting from the moment it got heated.

And yet, this topic isn't breaking any rule that I've set up ahead of time. And I'm not seeing it as such a massive problem that I need to invent a new rule to specifically nuke this particular topic. I've listed out my reasoning for the two rules of this community already. If you want to argue on the basis of those rules (or alternatively, if you want to propose a 3rd rule to be added), I'm willing to meta-discuss the rules with you here.

But don't take my "delete comment" movements for something else. Lemmy has very few tools for moderation. On other forums, I would have edited yall's posts rather than delete them outright. I'm forced to delete because its against Lemmy's philosophy to allow moderator-edits to posts.

I'm not trying to make you feel bad with the "delete comment". Its just honestly the smallest bit of action I can do on Lemmy. I'm not trying to threaten you, I'm not trying to cause anyone any kind of grief. I get it, its a political topic and you have opinions you want to get out. So talk, get them out. I'll do what I can to keep the best of the discussions up but I'll also be deleting the dogpiles as they come up.

Okay. So… I took your advice and I read their whole comment, and I’m now left to ask:

That’s what you took from their comment?