This community needs active mods
Hi all,
I'm an admin on blahaj.zone, /196's home instance. I'm not a member of /196, and I'm not familiar with its history. However, I'm seeing a LOT of reports coming through that aren't being actioned by community mods.
It looks like the original mod has deleted their account, and the remaining mod hasn't been active since their initial post 2 days ago.
What I'm hoping to see is that @threegnomes logs back in, appoints some mods and gets things under control.
But should that not happen, I'm going to need to step in and appoint some mods myself
Either way, if you're interested in being a mod, please reply below. I (and hopefully @threegnomes) will look at everyone that gets lots of community support (via upvotes or replies) and put some more mods in.
Lots of upvotes doesn't mean you automatically get the job. I reserve the right to veto candidates that I think are going to create more work rather than reduce it.
Rule 196 is a simple rule: if you enter the "sub" (obviously from reddit), you must post before leaving.
It usually ends up being very random, which leads it to both being easy and very difficult to moderate.
For a long time the original reddit version had some toxicity and lots of porn (or at least NSFW content). If it isn't marked NSFW, I'd do that and (assuming NSFW is allowed on lemmy.blahaj) mostly leave it be unless there's something really problematic and/or potentially illegal.
Honestly have no idea how to even moderate these communities. Reddit was hard enough without 3rd party tools.
Honestly, most of the reports that have come through don't even require action as far as I can tell. The biggest issue is, as the instance admin, I don't want to be dealing with reports for a community and making those calls, when many of them aren't breaking instance rules.
As long as the blahaj lemmy instance rules are followed, I don't care how the community is moderated, as long as it is :)
Absolutely, 100% fair. Eventually it'll get to be too much for you to handle even if you wanted to.
I'm going to have to catch up on all the different instances' rules.
I wonder if any automoderation tools exist for Lemmy yet? I'd be willing to take a crack at building some but if an open-source project for that already exists I'd rather contribute there.
Unfortunately there don't seem to be any functional tools yet, but I've seen a few people mention interest so there might be some brand new projects.
I just made a post about it on !foss@beehaw.org so hopefully if any are in the works I'll find out.
@ShittyKopper appears to be working on something called @lemmod publicly on a community on this instance I don't know how much progress they made.