Truth be told, this doesn’t change much, but I’d still like to make it official.

As of about 17 days ago, I have stepped down as the head mod of 196 on both this platform and lemmy.world. I will be yielding that title to the much more qualified Qaz, who’s been functionally in charge for quite a while now.

Despite what you may think, I make this choice really only for one reason: I don’t have nearly enough spare time in my life to be consistently available enough to be head mod.

What does this change/what does this mean?

To be honest, pretty much nothing for all of you. I’ve barely been available for the past however many months it’s been, and in that time the community has been run exclusively by Qaz and the rest of the team.
All that you’ll see changed is that Qaz will at times be the one that makes an announcement, and Qaz is now the only person that can make moderatorial decisions (bans, ect) without checking with the rest of the team (a power reserved for head mod).
I’ll still be around. I’m still a mod, I’ll still do announcements at times, and the rules post will most likely stay as my account, but from now on, Qaz gets the final say, not me.

    • Peachy [they/she] @lemmy.blahaj.zoneMEnglish
      14·
      1 month ago

      I banned Stamets a couple times over the last year for posting an anti-trans meme and a different instance of not tagging NSFW. Stamets is a repeat offender, hence the ban from Moss. Banning people for not tagging NSFW is in the stated rules. Repeat offenders are held to a higher standard. The “trolling” tag was because they plainly refused to tag the post.

      • Eugene V. Debs' Ghost@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        1·
        4 days ago

        Maybe remove Stamets being a whiney troll about having their transphobia removed.

        Edit: before they deleted these comments and rage quit, they complained of having their transphobia deleted by the mods.

      • TransgenderFrog@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        6·
        29 days ago

        I might buy that for Stamets but not necessarily for the other people who commented in that thread. Some of those people had very illegitimate bans indeed.

        • Peachy [they/she] @lemmy.blahaj.zoneMEnglish
          9·
          27 days ago

          It’s in the modlog, you don’t need to take my word for it.

          We have an email people can reach out to. We all have access to it so we can keep each other accountable. If anyone feels that they’ve been unfairly banned, they can reach out to the email and a mod unrelated to the ban will address it. We’ve let go of a mod in the past for unfairly banning people, it’s not like we’re going to defend each other for no reason. We’re a team, sure, but my justice-flavored autism isn’t going to hold that relationship over doing the right thing.

        • qaz@lemmy.worldMEnglish
          3·
          7 days ago

          Okay, I’ve taken a look and so far I’ve seen the following.
          You were never banned (except for one time being banned by moss), but Peachy did remove several posts from you. One of those removed posts was an “anti-trans meme” (probably not intended by you this way) and a different instance of you not tagging NSFW. I believe you when you say you never posted anything transphobic, but it certainly seems like the meme has transphobic elements. It starts with saying “you will never be a real mushroom” (“you will never be a real woman”). It also says the subject never will have spores (reference to trans woman missing “real” genitals). Furthermore, it finishes with “You are a small kitten twisted by fabric and wool into a crude mockery of nature’s perfection”, which is very close to things like “You are a man with a dress and implants and a crude mockery of nature’s perfection”. This might seem far-fetched, but each line is extremely similar to common transphobic sayings.

          So, enough meme analysis and talk about the things you’ve said:

          1. My modlog is completely clear and free of ANY such removals or bans

          So this is false, but I can understand why you might have thought that because those removals were on blahaj and you might have checked the logs for lemmy.world

          1. …outright lying about me and claiming that they have banned me for being transphobic in the past

          Peachy didn’t say you were “being transphobic”, they said they removed an “anti-trans meme”, which is true.

          I banned Stamets a couple times over the last year for posting an anti-trans meme

          1. This has literally never happened and they’re just making shit up about me now to try and justify a ban after the fact.

          I hope you can see why a mod who sees someone posting a (to some) blatantly obvious transphobic meme, later sees them not marking a post as NSFW, is unlikely to see their side of the issue when they later complain about a ban. I can understand that you’re upset (rightfully so, I don’t think the ban was justified) and have no interest in participating in this community going forward, but we’re not making things up.