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It can become a source of targeted harassment, as it has on the rest of the fediverse before.
Censorship and targeted sliencing of users are the source of bad moderation. To top it off, the mod can target and harrass the banned user and we wouldn't know bc of censorship if allowed.
It is about the anonymity of moderator, not about modlog
Quit this job as moderator if you can't take it
There is still censorship in many instances. Just because it's transparent doesn't change anything about the fact that it's happening. I doubt more than a small fraction of users even regularly look at the modlog.
And that's when you jump to another instance, no?