Hi there.

A short introduction: This is an alt account. I’m a moderator here who has been unhappy with the state of news/political discussions here for a long time. The admins have kindly given me the opportunity to see if we can make some improvement the community here.

We will be doing some major revision of the rules left by the previous moderators and will use discussions in this thread as feedback on the direction we should take our community.

This will be an open discussion on the state of our community, the rules and our moderation practices. Feel free to give your inputs.

My goal is to foster thoughtful discussion in our community, and not let this place be a replica of r/politics.

First order of business, immediate rule change.

On [email protected], effectively immediately, we will no longer restrict political discussion to the politics of the United States of America. Discussion regarding of the state of politics from around the world is now welcome.

I will leave this pinned for 1-2 weeks for our team to take feedback and make our proposals then.

  • jordanlund@lemmy.worldM
    51·
    11 months ago

    When it comes to Moderator drama, I would RATHER the site Admins make the call than the other moderators.

    If you don’t then the optics are bad. Say I took the initiative and bounced Yobucks and appointed MightBe, the end result, to you guys, would look like I staged a coup and inserted my own cronies to the modlist (which is something that happened more than once on reddit.)

    Being able to step aside, reach out to the Admins and go “Hey, I think we have a problem…” is a huge improvement.

    • pelespirit@sh.itjust.works
      45·
      10 months ago

      There is some meta drama with the admins that’s going on that isn’t obvious. I agree with you in normal circumstances.

      • jordanlund@lemmy.worldM
        41·
        10 months ago

        Oh, I’m sure there’s all sorts of stuff going on that’s not obvious. So long as it STAYS that way, I’m OK with it. :) Just like we mods have our own channel of communications, so do the Admins.

        But the stuff the Admins do that is public, like discussing defederation from other instances, stuff like that? Well within their rights as Admins.

        But nobody is telling us as mods “hey, we need you to delete content x” unless it’s a clear violation of lemmy.world policy, like when we had to crack down on copy/pasting full articles in violation of copyright.

        • pelespirit@sh.itjust.works
          44·
          10 months ago

          Oh, I’m sure there’s all sorts of stuff going on that’s not obvious. So long as it STAYS that way, I’m OK with it. :)

          I can see why you wouldn’t want to know. But as a user, I want to be able to not have to check if things are deleted or modified for no reason. Good luck for next year, it’s going to get crazy I’m sure.

          • jordanlund@lemmy.worldM
            31·
            10 months ago

            I’m not in a position to say what the Admins can or cannot do because I’m not an Admin. :)

            What I CAN say, as an IT professional, when you have APIs and bots and tools of all sorts, the only real limit is “how much time and effort are you willing to throw at it?”

            • pelespirit@sh.itjust.works
              34·
              10 months ago

              It’s a little disheartening to hear, tbh. I’ve always thought of all of the instances as hobbyists just doing their thing, but we don’t really know. I do know now that the LW admins can be trolls, I don’t know if Ruud is one of them or doesn’t have the time to check on them though.

              • Stamets@lemmy.world
                22·
                10 months ago

                Oh would you shut the ever living fuck up?

                You are whining relentlessly about the admins and saying they’re doing shit that isnt obvious and accusing them of whatever else.

                Where’s your proof? Oh yeah. You don’t have any. Wouldn’t be surprised if you’re YoBucks alt at this point.