So I was skimming again through the comments of a thread, and saw a comment with 42 upvotes, including mine, and no downvotes, as “removed by a mod”. I was curious about which comment was it and the reason, but looking at the modlog, the only action shown against that account is apparently a mod banning it from the site with reason “rape jokes are not tolerated here”. Looking at the account, its whole comment history has been nuked.
Now, I have numerous questions:
-Can mods ban people from the whole site? I thought only admins could do that?
-What does “banning from site” actually mean? Comments were deleted from every instance, does an admin (or mod) from one instance have such “power” over the others?
-I’m pretty sure I did NOT upvote a rape joke, is it really correct to nuke the entire comment history of an account just because of one violation? I’m afraid that could lead to a huge loss of content as the site progresses. Especially if simple mods can do that.
I can link to the specific account/comment if I get authorization, not sure if that’s allowed.
You are correct that my first point was incorrect. I just learned that the level of detail in the modlog is configurable and varies by instance. For example, if I look at literature.cafe all modlog actions are performed by “mod.” On lemmy.world, though, some of those same actions are performed by “admin.”