On Mod Removal from v/videos (videos)

submitted ago by PuttItOut

@THC was removed as moderator from v/videos for the following reasons:

  1. Used a @system subverse as a personal platform

  2. Defacing the subverse CSS

@InnocentBystander was removed as designer on v/videos for maliciously modifying the subverse CSS in response to @THC's removal.

We decided to leave the sticky up since @THC felt so strongly about this that he would consider using a @system sub as a soapbox an acceptable course of action.

@Cynabuns doesn't have the power or authority to remove moderators and neither did she request either of you to be removed.

Bottom line is you thought v/videos was your personal subverse to do with as you please. You had issues with Voat asking for Janitors on @system subs and had issues when admins stepped in due to poor handling in the past.

You forced us to remove you and I'm more confident than not that this is the outcome you desired and why you did what you did.

On the paging limitation for those interested: https://voat.co/v/voatdev/1389285/6738688/10

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go1dfish ago

Thanks for the transparency. All looks above board to me and the change the sticky complains about seems quite reasonable and understandable.

On an unrelated note, I need an API key for http://goat.video so I can stop using unreliable ajax proxies for CORS.

Edit: On a more related note, I've also been working on a moderator election bot for that other site (someone commissioned it and I like money). It will be open source and it could be adaptable to Voat, but Voat would need to support some more things in its API like moderator management and ideally wikis as well (where I'm storing the templates in the alien version)

Broc_Lia ago

What is goat.video? Looks interesting.

go1dfish ago

It's a youtube video playlist builder powered by any subverse.

works really well with music focused subverses like http://goat.video/cheers

Broc_Lia ago

Cool!

derram ago

Starting to add moderator endpoints to the api is a bad idea, that's how you end up with an automod.

go1dfish ago

Personally I don't think automod is inherently bad, especially with public mod logs (my bot will also force u/publicmodlogs)

But if you're worried about that, you could not add endpoints for post/comment removal. This bot doesn't ever remove posts, it does however remove mods who attempt to remove calls for an election or otherwise tamper with an election. It then approves the thing they removed.

If Voat remains restrictive about who gets api keys for what purpose that could be used to prevent the automation of censorship as well.