this is my favorite post there, deeply unserious person CW: cognitohazard
When was he caught directly manipulating the database?
Mods have an option to “remove user content” when community or site banning which removes all the posts of comments but doesn’t create a modlog entry. It is a bug that is being fixed (I think in 0.19.4) ironically a lemmy.world/c/politics mod did it for someone who posted too many Biden bad stories and no one is claiming lemmy.world mods are editing the database
Thats what they call the purge comment and delete comment option that mods have
I love how they get huffy about getting chain-banned from 20 communities (that have similar mod staffs) when they’re caught either being chauvinist, racist, or genocidal. Like, a mod’s not allowed to watch you transgress then think “yeah I don’t want you in any community I have purview over”? That shit used to be POINT OF COURSE for larger bbforums that had multiple mods for different parts of the forum.
Also im sure that chain-bans are just lemmy.ml version of a site ban and they are never permanent bans at max i seen 1 month. They are just complaining about losing their treats for a month really
If somebody posts something illegal (like CSAM), you don’t want to simply deactivate it and leave it available for ‘review’ in the mod log. You need the ability to ensure it is not only hidden, but completely and totally deleted in memory, on the disk, in the database, on any caches / CDNs, etc.
I honestly figured they had some actual evidence not just 0 understanding of the software