Greetings!

Alas, the previous moderator became inactive, so I have taken over the moderatorship for now, but seeking volunteer(s) from the community to volunteers as moderators.

If you're decently active on Lemmy and don't have a modlog showing you're a Bad User™¹, and are willing to check for reports daily or so - and handle them in a responsible manner (removing rule-violating posts/comments, not removing things that you don't agree with but don't violate rules². You also need ot have a lemmy.world account (this can be an alt that you just check daily for reports - because they won't appear for you if your user is on another instance), please consider volunteering!

Moderating is usually not too difficult. Posts/comments get reported maybe around weekly or less, currently. So unless there's a big fight where you need to step in, it's not usually much to do.

I'd love to see a team of 2-4 willing to step up for this. And considering the community, I'd love to see most of those be women, but men are certainly not excluded in any way from volunteering. Diversity is generally a Good Thing™.

If you have any questions, or would like to volunteer, please leave a comment! Or have any other thoughts on the matter.


¹Yes, this is a subjective judgement. Go ahead and apply if interested, the worst I'll do is decline :)

²Subjective removals are acceptable, of course!

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[–] [S] 8 points 1 week ago (1 child)

Note: There were multiple reports from a post back in September where someone was being a troll and uncivil in that thread. That user ONLY posted in this community. I have permanently banned them from the community.

Feminism can be a hot topic. It's hard enough for me, as a man, and I consider myself a feminist. We all have slightly different views, so even before trolls come in, things can get tense sometimes.

What I would humbly request:

  1. Remain civil. If you can't be civil, take a break.
  2. If there's someone breaking rules, please report the comment (or post)
  3. Block the trolls. If they get zero replies, they die from lack of attention and move on eventually.

I would hope that anyone volunteering to moderate will do so with those as guiding principles as well. :)

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