This isn’t bitching so much as a curiosity. Here in Lemmy.ml, would it be considered abusive for an admin to actively participate in a discussion, then get upset and delete the same comments they themselves have been replying to?
I’d just like to clarify the administration posture of this instance. There are lots of accusations of unfairness here. I don’t know if that’s an individualistic thing or a matter of policy.
Mainly asking so I can more easily identify what discussions are not safe to participate in.
Cheers!
Depends on the comment. You can both address the issues of a comment and remove it if it breaks the rules.
My own experience was having a full, hours long debate with a mod, who after I didn’t just accept their world view simply deleted all my comments and banned me. They left their own comments and arguments of course.
In the kiddo’s it just says “rule 2” as explanation for my ban and the deleted comments, but “rule 2” was about NSFW posts. Our conversation was about whether mediabiasfactcheck can be used as a tool to assess news sources. I kept it respectful. Nothing at all NSFW about it.
I’d have to see what actually happened, I can’t just take your word for it at face-value.
It would be in the mod log at worldnews, about four weeks ago. Since I couldn’t participate there I blocked the sub (before understood how lemmy worked), so I unfortunately cannot screenshot the exact comments. But it shouldn’t take a lot of effort if you’re actually interested.