Boy oh boy did they screw up on this topic. I guess the DNC got their cheque and left laughing as the rest of the world continues to get fucked.

Your title made me chuckle.

We just comment it out in case we ever need it again.

Celebrity appearances.

Not to say the show goes downhill because of it. But I feel as if it’s often used as a crutch to attract more viewers.

So it didn’t actually happen? Just someone making a very loud opinion.

Are any of these open source or trustworthy?

Surprised Christopher Nolan is not higher.

I see where you’re coming from, but I just don’t agree with it. I think this is just a case where we’ll have to agree to disagree. Hopefully, you don’t take it personally because you did actually provide some thought provoking comments. Hope you enjoy the rest of your day.

I don’t get why “I’ll stop reporting” is a childish thing to do

It’s not an adult-like response. I expect this kind of thing from a child or someone who’s emotionally manipulative. Setting boundaries is part of everyday life. Agreeing/disagreeing with the boundary is also part of everyday life. Blowing it out of proportion just tells me this person cannot handle being told something they don’t like. You don’t jump to extremes when someone makes a request of you. That’s not healthy.

Like the “you should know better” message - are you there to stop the reports, or are you there to tell off / antagonize the user? “happening for months” is also a huge “nono”.

This will be a difference in opinion. But I genuinely don’t see it that way. Saying “you’re a mod too, so you should know where I’m coming from and what these rules mean” is not out of line in the slightest. And commenting on a trend or a habit is also not a “nono” in my books. I honestly don’t see it as antagonistic in the slightest.

I see where you’re coming from about the behavior of managers and speaking to the other mod. It’s not technically incorrect for you to make that comment. But at the end of the day our mods are all volunteers who also have personal lives. They don’t get paid for this. Comparing them to a professional manager, who is trained, vetted, and paid to be what a company wants them to be is not a fair comparison if I’m being honest. This is a community driven environment. Our mods are mods because they care. Acting hostile to them when they’re just trying their best is not a good look. I’ve had some of my comments removed at times. I didn’t agree with it but I let it slide because I don’t feel like it should be made a big deal.

The 2 a week occurrence was just the past week and it was clear this has been going on for some time. Look at what BB said “you routinely report simple disagreements as misinformation” and “This has been going on for months”. BB just didn’t make a big deal out of it. Regardless of the frequency, our moderators moderate the communities out of their own free time. If they want to go to someone on the side and say “don’t report stuff like this” to save themselves time they are well within their rights to do so. That’s how the conversation started, no hostilities or anything. Just saying “Hey this doesn’t break our community rules so please stop reporting it”. A mature and adult-like response to something like this would have been “I disagree, but fine.” It didn’t need more that. A mature person could have also said “Can we look into making it a rule or having a discussion about it at least?” if they were feeling passionate about the subject. FS then had a very childish response of saying “Well I just won’t report anymore then”. That’s not an appropriate way to respond to something like this. I’ve flagged comments before that got ignored even though I think they should. I’ve never had a mod have to have this kind of conversation with me but I also never made it a big deal and just re-thought about what comments should be reported.

As for your steps, I agree with you for the most part. I don’t know if BB should have talked to the other mod(s) before having this kind of conversation as I feel that’s a bit extra and unnecessary. If mods had to deliberate over every report and comment than they would get nothing done. Also, I don’t see how BB antagonized FS. He was well within his rights to say “stop reporting stuff like this”

https://www.carter-ruck.com/law-guides/defamation-and-privacy-law-in-germany/

The guiding principle is: Untrue factual statements are illegal. Expression of opinion is permissible up to the limit of “abusive criticism”.

In contrast expressions of opinion enjoy fundamental constitutional protection and are thus generally admissible.

The injunctive relief (i.e., an interim injunction), which is obtained by a court’s cease and desist order, may stop an unlawful publication that already took place or is imminent. An injunction is of specific practical importance and can provide fast and effective protection from imminent dam-age. The injunctive relief may address both unlawful texts and impermissible photos or film. It is used in the event of written reporting not only to protect a person against false allegations of facts but – in cases of privacy invasion – also against the expression of opinion. The court’s cease and desist order prohibits the publication of illegal content by a media company.

Yeah, not buying it. Relax buddy. A lot worse has been said online. People are allowed to express their opinions.

Again, defamation is a big stretch and the US laws don’t matter in Lemmy. .world is hosted in Europe.

Because the game was incredibly successful and other companies tried to copy the formula. The same reason a lot of companies tried to copy Fortnite or League of Legends.

Yes, we clearly do.

I don’t see that as any kind of abuse of power.

As an individual action and for majority of users, I would agree with you. But given how FlyingSquid behaved after being asked not to over-report comments and then proceeded to say how they’re not going to report anymore, they don’t feel safe or welcome in c/news, and views it as hostile. Their treatment of the user in the post I linked just comes across as being very abusive. If FlyingSquid viewed what Blackbeard so badly, what does that say about about their treatment of users in the communities they mod when they approach with much more hostility?

Defamation is not against the rules and sounds like quite a bit of a stretch. No one on Lemmy is capable of defaming anyone even remotely that famous. It’s clearly an example of frivolous reporting.

This entire post is because of FlyingSquid throwing a tantrum because Blackbeard told them to mind how they report comments. That’s all the was asked. This is after months of this behavior. Then FlyingSquid goes on this whole rant about how they feel unsafe and took a less than hour silence as being ignored and began acting even more childishly.

Meanwhile I gave one example of FlyingSquid literally running into the same thing for a community they mod and threatening to ban the person with absolutely zero discussion. They could have just started with a warning like Blackbeard did but instead went straight for threatening to ban the user.

Are you not seeing the double standard?

The first message had Blackbeard clarify the difference between opinion and misinformation. It’s pretty straightforward.

I mean sure, here’s an example. https://lemm.ee/post/44255924/15323391

I thought this one was ironic given the topic of conversation from this post.

Asking another mod to mind how they report things should not have been met with this kind of hostility. It was a very simple ask.

It’s clear FS has been doing this for some time and Blackbeard was getting sick and tired of it. Telling someone who regularly reports users to mind what they consider report worthy is something I imagine a lot of mods have to do. Saying “Well then, I guess I won’t report anything if that’s the way it’s going to be” is pretty childish IMO. Especially considering FS is a mod themselves.

FS is just very combative in nature. I’ve seen it several times. They’re not an easy person to have a discussion with.