Will it be effective?
Spoiler
No, it was not very effective.
EDIT: The banning event continues. Please consult the modlog to observe.
https://lemmy.world/modlog?page=1&modId=7121342
If you scroll down to about a day ago, you might be able to observe an emerging behavior from this mod.
EDIT 2: The mod in question moderates a total of 108 Lemmy communities. How deep does this conspiracy run? Is this mod a lost Redditor? More to come!
EDIT 3: The mod has now removed my comment all together, one might assume because it was still receiving upvotes in the 2 hours following my ban. Are there similarities here to Watergate? You be the judge!
EDIT 4: The mod in question has now been removed as a mod of the !vegan@lemmy.world community, as a result of their abuse of power.
https://lemmy.world/post/19731457
This was their response:
EDIT 5: This will be my final update, since as far as I see it, the issue this thread focuses on has been resolved. To quote Beaver herself in a very ironic comment she made directed towards someone else:
Clearly this was all just a case of…
I said the same for some instances and some communities waaaaay back during the reddit exodus, because they couldn’t deal with the fact that Lemmy is a public thing and they acted like it was a private forum (like those instances that disabled downvotes).
And I don’t mean they can’t belong, just that they can’t expect a positive reaction from everyone. But if their idea of a community is an echo chamber, then move to a forum, host a whitelist instance, create a private revolt/matrix server instead of making a fool of themselves, it will also be EXTREMELY easier to moderate.
Well put.
If outsider opinions are nearly always considered “bad faith”, the situation is a systemic issue with the visibility of the group.