[I am a moderator, but not the moderator that this post is about.]
This came up a little while before it was posted to LW (the same person posted a similar thing on Twitter) and I looked into it then. After reading accounts from both sides, it looked to me like the accusation was basically false. I also heard that another organization’s designated abuse reporting person had already looked into it, and declined to take any action (though I didn’t talk to them directly). We (myself and the other moderators) also don’t want LW to be a place people go for social drama, in general; there are already much better places to post accusations of abuse. So, I don’t exactly want to see this signal-boosted. And, we do sometimes reject first posts from new accounts (every new account’s first post/comment goes into a review queue, mainly because of all the spambots, but we also sometimes use this to reject posts that don’t meet our quality bar).
On the other hand, since this is directed at another moderator, it would feel like an abuse of power to go outside the karma system to suppress it. I think that, if someone looks at negative-karma posts, they’ve opted out of some of the usual filtering and that’s on them.
[I am a moderator, but not the moderator that this post is about.]
This came up a little while before it was posted to LW (the same person posted a similar thing on Twitter) and I looked into it then. After reading accounts from both sides, it looked to me like the accusation was basically false. I also heard that another organization’s designated abuse reporting person had already looked into it, and declined to take any action (though I didn’t talk to them directly). We (myself and the other moderators) also don’t want LW to be a place people go for social drama, in general; there are already much better places to post accusations of abuse. So, I don’t exactly want to see this signal-boosted. And, we do sometimes reject first posts from new accounts (every new account’s first post/comment goes into a review queue, mainly because of all the spambots, but we also sometimes use this to reject posts that don’t meet our quality bar).
On the other hand, since this is directed at another moderator, it would feel like an abuse of power to go outside the karma system to suppress it. I think that, if someone looks at negative-karma posts, they’ve opted out of some of the usual filtering and that’s on them.