Hey all! Friendly neighborhood mod here!
I’ve just been added (along with @[email protected] (HEY SQUID!)) to the OTHER World News community, “worldnews”, totally separate from this group “world”.
The reason being, the mods there had effectively retired. Hurts, the lead mod, stepped away and hadn’t been active for MONTHS, and post and comment reports were PILING up, to a point where the Admins asked in our Discord chat going “Hey, what’s going on with worldnews?”
Which left ME confused, because “world” has a friendly name of “World News” and is generally up to date on the report queue unless two users are engaging in:
Which, (sigh), happens way more often than I’d like, but what are you going to do?
Before they left 5 months ago, Hurts had pinned a question to worldnews asking, basically, “Do we NEED world AND worldnews?” which I think is a valid question.
There are some key differences, world doesn’t accept video links or text pieces, but there’s no rule against that in worldnews, so it’s a little more free-form than world, although both require legitimate news sources.
So for now, consider the discussion OPEN! Keep them both? Close one or the other?
The volume difference is pretty dramatic:
world:
worldnews:
I don’t believe flyingsquid has an appropriate temperament to moderate a current events community
FlyingSquid seems fine for the most part, but OP here has routinely pushed some crazy right wing stuff in past comments. This seems like what happened at reddit with certain subs being taken over in an organized way to silence certain viewpoints/content in favor of others.
At least here we can create identical communities on other instances, so we’ll have to wait and see how things turn out.
this is just bad faith engagement, and you can see them doing this and other trolling techniques in their comment history
flyingsquid isn’t even a mod of that community so this example isn’t doing much, sorry.
in comparison, jordanlund here has confirmed that they intend to continue using their mod position as a platform to support pretty obvious troll attempts with niche, uncited, subjective “context.”
again, something i’d be absolutely fine seeing in r/atheism or other communities with a strong sense of localized sociocultural philosophy, but for the fifth largest community that claims to reject opinion articles, this is absurdly unprofessional.
edit: spelling
OP has now tripled down on their behavior so my judgement is pretty much decided. If this was a highly specific political/philosophical community maybe, but for a community that claims to represent world news this behavior is laughably unacceptable.
Curious to know what others think. Gonna start curating my feed perhaps. Any sublemmies you would recommend?
If this is a pattern I would call for replacement of staff. Haven’t seen evidence to support that yet personally.
My comment’s in regards to jordanlund; I don’t have an opinion of flyingsquid.