To see mod actions, just press the button that says "modlog" on your main page. So for lemmy.world here ya go: https://lemmy.world/modlog It's wild to see some of the shit that people post that break rules. Insults, trolling, spam, ads, violence, misinformation, etc.

I guess good on the mods then for taking that crap down?

And those are just the comments that actually get removed. Plenty stay up, and others remain visible for hours before a moderator gets to them. As the examples I posted show, several of those comments had already been upvoted before they were removed.

That was my original point: I see a lot of pro-violence comments on Lemmy. You said you don't see them, but I do.

Now, since I've decided to stayed out of, and block, political communities and started blocking people who post that kind of stuff, I see it less than I used to. But even with my huge block list, I still run into it.

I'm not saying this describes the majority of Lemmy users. But I see more open approval of violence here than I do in most other online communities, and I think that hurts Lemmy's growth.

I don't mind Lemmy being the wild west of the internet. I don't want everything sanitized into some PG-13 corporate crap. But the calls for violence get excessive, and they've made me feel more uneasy about Lemmy lately. It gets especially bad whenever something like the Luigi Mangione case or the Charlie Kirk shooting makes the news.

The reaction to the Luigi case was probably when it first hit me. I have no love for health insurance CEOs, but walking up to somebody on a sidewalk and killing him in cold blood isn't something I can applaud. Ever.

When the charlie kirk thing happen, people were putting gifs of cartoons with blood spurting out of necks in comments, and people were laughing and upvoting and loving it. Ewww. WTF?!

So fuck no, I don't want to stand in line with random Lemmy posters during an election, even tho we'll probably vote for the same things. Thank god for mail-in ballots in my area. lol