But worse to me are their comments in that post calling the people responding "childish trolls in this community". I do not think that this is appropriate for a moderator.

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[–] red@sopuli.xyz 17 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (5 children)

I'm not seeing the "insulting users of the community" point you stated OP, could you clarify? I did see one snarky response to a dude calling him an asshole, and I also saw posts stating he shouldn't be a mod, and generally very hostile responsens. Those in mind, I think his output was quite civil even though I disagree with his reasoning and opinion to large degree.

This feels like a witchhunt to me, and I for one don't think a volunteer moderators job should be in question if he has a hot take on something. He's just keeping the spam etc. clean, he's allowed to have differing opinions on subjects, as long as there is no misuse of his mod powers.

[–] SheeEttin@programming.dev 8 points 7 months ago (4 children)

"childish trolls in this community", "this community is full of trolls", "90% of folks here dont get the issue and rather troll"

[–] red@sopuli.xyz 9 points 7 months ago (3 children)

That's insulting? Quite civil words, compared to the words the community he is describing, use in that thread.

[–] SheeEttin@programming.dev 5 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Yes. And that doesn't excuse it; a moderator should be better than the community they moderate.

[–] red@sopuli.xyz 8 points 7 months ago

Nah, they are average human beings

[–] halm@leminal.space 6 points 7 months ago

That's honestly an unreasonable expectation of volunteers, and especially not one I'd want mods to measure themselves by. A mod who thinks he is better than the common users would be a massive asshole.