Other accounts:
You can have a look at reddthat.com or Lemmy.blahaj.zone communities from other instances and see if the downvotes count are consistent
I just realized I’ve seen you a lot on /r/Redditalternatives! Nice to see you here!
There is also !vegan@vegantheoryclub.org, their own instance
Communities should have democratic governance.
I’ve seen some instances elect their admins. No mod election yet, but that probably happened somewhere.
To be fair, as a mod myself, the issue is usually to get potential mod candidates in the first place.
100+ communities,
95 of those are inactive.
There are mods on LW who moderate 10 active communities. Even further, any LW admins can virtually mod all of the LW community.
also seen recently with the bot drama in news on lemmy world.
Indeed.
Is there not an option in Lemmy to make a community private, or exclude it from /all?
There is no option to hide a community from All at the moment.
Private communities exist, but require to add every member as a mod, unrealistic for anything with more than a few members.
This whole thing keeps delivering
The bans seem to be targeting downvotes without other contribution and cheeky comments such as the one in the OP
Increasingly I believe communities should be able to hide from All.
Definitely
Out of those, less then 10 are active
There are plenty of LW mods who mod a higher number of active communities
Not that I know of, it’s all or nothing at the moment
What happened to that stance?
I don’t know, seems reasonable advice
With the current thread on !unpopularopinion@lemmy.world how “communities should allow everyone to interact if they are not private”, the likelihood of someone else creating the same thread as this one with “look at those authoritarian mods who ban everyone” is quite high
I hide downvotes since we can (latest Lemmy upgrade), that’s better
What about “vocal minority”?
I was curious, so I had a look, seems like it still leads to violence in some occurences
A Florida man was recently arrested for allegedly stabbing his cousin after a heated debate about whether whole cow’s milk or almond milk is superior.
The debate over whether to consume animal products, like meat and dairy, or go entirely plant-based (vegan) is a hot-button issue, often filled with vitriol and name-calling online and in real life.
https://www.businessinsider.com/why-do-angry-vegans-meat-eaters-fight-so-much-2020-2?op=1
I would be careful about lemmy.one
The admin has been missing for some time, a few people posted to the meta community and never got any answer