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Transparency on an issue with denied applications (beehaw.org)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Hey everyone

We recently discovered that the end-user experience around denied applications is a bit confusing and perhaps in need of some work. As best as we can tell, if we deny an application there is no notification nor a reason displayed to the person who's been denied. We don't want this experience happening to anyone we deny (it's not particularly nice to ghost people!) and we expect that many of the denied applications are great people who are just in a hurry and not writing enough for us to assess if they're a fit for our ethos, so we wanted to make this post for anyone who tried to register and is confused about what happened or anyone still yet to register.

When registering, please answer the questions in full as it helps us to understand if you'd be a good fit here. We created a post in lemmy support to get some clarification on this issue, but we're not sure how long it will take to resolve or what changes we may need to do to our process.

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[–] WhoRoger 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I'd be curious to see what kind of applications you get that you turn down (aside of the obvious like when someone just types gjshshshdh in the box)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I’d be curious to see what kind of applications you get that you turn down (aside of the obvious like when someone just types gjshshshdh in the box)

right now we're not explicitly turning down any but at this point if you mention you're only here to replace reddit or that you were pointed here with no context you almost certainly won't get accepted

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm assuming there's a decent amount of trolling where people claim they want to join to be a terrible person lol

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

surprisingly no, but there have been some blanks or complete non-sequiturs