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(Minor) Post asking for feedback on potential slowness on LW (where 36% of the Lemmy users are located) is removed from !asklemmy@lemmy.world as a "support question" (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by to c/yepowertrippinbastards@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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Okay, this is definitely a minor case, but probably still worth reporting.

Modlog is here, 17 hours ago: https://lemmy.world/modlog/3106

Link to the post content reposted on !fediverse@lemmy.world: https://lemmyverse.link/lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/36299751

That question is useful for most of the people, as LW hosts 36% of the users base, and most of the active communities (https://lemmyverse.net/communities?order=active). Removing it as a support question seems questionable.

The most curious thing is that I investigated a bit, as LW still allows to show which mod performed which action (that how things worked in 0.19.3), and that removal has been performed by a mod that literally hasn't performed any action in 6 months: https://lemmy.world/modlog?page=1&modId=45389

Not wanting to put a tinfoil hat, but it's still curious to me that that specific mod came out from a 5-months inactivity just to remove that one post highlighting potential issues with LW.

What do you all think?

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[–] 2 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

PTB

I don't get how everybody is coming in here saying it breaks the rules and belongs in support, this is not a support question, it's simply asking if others users have the same experience, or to share their own, that by definition is not support, it's feedback.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago*

    I think mods get tired of having to deal with shit, and so anything that remotely resembles what they've removed in the past gets classified as similar.

    Also many users (not mods) are rule lawyers and love to spam the report button and that can influence things as well. Like if nobody had reported this perhaps it would have stayed but then when someone did...

    Ultimately this has all the earmarks that it might be a PTB, yet it does seem arguable that the mod could have been simply overeager and not paying close attention, so potentially a CLM? (Which itself is simply another form of an unintentional and low-grade PTB?)

    Edit: in all likelihood, we here are putting in far more effort thinking this situation over than the mod in question did:-P.

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