Admin comments on lemm.ee: https://lemm.ee/post/55846636/18367529
tl;dr for lemm.ee:
In short, somebody posted a pro-Elon-Musk-doing-a-nazi-salute Valentine’s Day meme and the mods left it up so people started complaining in other communities and the admins realized “you know, we never see reports from our instance’s most controversial community” because the mods were quick to act leaving everything up. So the original salute poster was banned and all the mods were dethroned as the admins are taking a wait-and-see approach on what to do with the community.
I haven’t found a comment about what happened at .world yet but there are zero mods for their community too.
Power tripping mods getting their comeuppance!
I don’t get it, maybe there’s more history of the c/conservative mods power tripping?
Only knowing what I’ve read in this post, mods doing nothing seems to me to be the opposite of power tripping?
Wintermute_oregon was the main mod. There was some other guy who hasn’t posted in over a year I think and a bot account so that left all mod decisions to wmo. This mod constantly would get into fights and ban the other person for winning, he had no patience for democratic viewpoints at all claiming they’re the woke mind virus, asking questions could get you banned and the next day he’d comment about how nobody wants a real discussion. He was sensitive and actively wielding power. A true snowflake.
It’s ironic the choice that cost him his position is a choice to do nothing, except that it was a very active nothing. He could handle reports faster than instance admins could see them so none of the reports were even seen by anybody but him and nobody complained too loud because Lemmy is liberal enough to leave the community nearly untouched save for a half dozen or so accounts spamming pro-Trump, anti-democrat articles with By Lines saying they were written by Tyler Durden (the narrator’s imaginary friend in Fight Club). If you weren’t praising Trump, you wouldn’t be welcome back.
This was a shit show but now the mod has been taken out of town on a rail.
Thank you for the explanation, makes sense!
Wouldn’t it be expected to have pro Trump (or as you say, anti Democrat) articles posted to a community explicitly created for discussion of conservative issues?
Zero hedge is an outlet known for right leaning economic policy, I don’t place much trust in their content, but sometimes it’s an interesting data point.
I’m not a Trump (or Republican) voter, but in the few times I clicked on a link posted in c/conservative I didn’t see any actual conservative or right leaning comments. Just a deluge of down votes and negative commentary attempting to dunk on a seemingly missing conservative adversary.
In fact, and I’m not exaggerating here, I never see any comments right of center in my feed, in any community on Lemmy (I view through the lens of LW).
Maybe I have stuff blocked so I don’t see right leaning user’s content?