Hello everyone,
This is kind of a meta discussion, so if it doesn’t fit the community, let me know and I’ll crosspost it somewhere else.
There has been occurrences of people making broad statements against instances, communities, mods or admins. As Lemmy’s recent versions (0.19.7 I think) allow to see someone’s moderation history in a click (see below), I tend to use it from time to time, especially when the person is targeting admins or not that are known to be level-headed and consistent.
If the modlog shows that this person is indeed known to be toxic or arguing in bad faith, I would then post something like “heavy modlog” with a link to the user’s modlog.
It seems like this behaviour could be considered harassment by some people. On the other hand, it allows people to identify directly if that person is arguing in bad faith, the same way very new accounts get regularly called out on their account age.
What do you think?
I think this is more likely to be used to harass people than to actually do anything useful. Modding is a shitshow on Lemmy as most of us have seen, so I don’t really think having mod actions listed against you is meaningful, especially if you’ve been an active user for a long time.
Not to mention the worst actors just rotate accounts anyway.
Not all modlog is trash but you are correct it can’t be relied on as some sort of criminal record lol
Mods on heavy traffic instances are threat actors and should be treated as such