Sometimes, users make comments and posts that are tricky to moderate. In those situations, it appears the 196 mods wanted to be a bit more lenient, while the admin wanted to be a bit more strict in terms of removing that content. It’s not one specific thing, it seems like more of an accumulation of small decisions that built up and caused the mod team to make a rash decision.
Ada does not accept sealioning and “Just asking questions”-types in the very trans-friendly space on blahaj.zone, which doesn’t seem to be an issue for the mod team (showing how much they are out of touch - moving 196 to .world is a bad move, because such user conduct is more acceptable on .world). Also, it seems that the decision wasn’t “rash” - A commenter in the “what went wrong”-post remembered that a mod off-handedly wrote that they were thinking about moving to .world about a month ago (and got pushback even back then). Also, trying that move without even consulting your community once is either pretty bold or pretty stupid, depending on viewpoint.
I have absolutely no problem with Ada, she has a lot of experience moderating around LGBTQ issues and she seems to do a fine job.
But that doesn’t negate the fact that it was a difference of opinion between the community mods and the admin as to how the community should be moderated. There are certain communities on my server where I have removed comments and the mods have been upset about it and requested that I give them space to moderate their communities. It’s a gray area and requires compromise at times.
Sometimes, users make comments and posts that are tricky to moderate. In those situations, it appears the 196 mods wanted to be a bit more lenient, while the admin wanted to be a bit more strict in terms of removing that content. It’s not one specific thing, it seems like more of an accumulation of small decisions that built up and caused the mod team to make a rash decision.
Ada does not accept sealioning and “Just asking questions”-types in the very trans-friendly space on blahaj.zone, which doesn’t seem to be an issue for the mod team (showing how much they are out of touch - moving 196 to .world is a bad move, because such user conduct is more acceptable on .world). Also, it seems that the decision wasn’t “rash” - A commenter in the “what went wrong”-post remembered that a mod off-handedly wrote that they were thinking about moving to .world about a month ago (and got pushback even back then). Also, trying that move without even consulting your community once is either pretty bold or pretty stupid, depending on viewpoint.
I have absolutely no problem with Ada, she has a lot of experience moderating around LGBTQ issues and she seems to do a fine job.
But that doesn’t negate the fact that it was a difference of opinion between the community mods and the admin as to how the community should be moderated. There are certain communities on my server where I have removed comments and the mods have been upset about it and requested that I give them space to moderate their communities. It’s a gray area and requires compromise at times.
Locking the existing version of a community and forcing people to move to another instance without any prior consultation is indeed quite rash