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/m/politics has no moderators other than ernest (kbin.social)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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/m/politics is basically unmoderated, and the trolls and other ne'er-do-wells are starting to find it. I'm not even particularly interested in following it, but that's one topic that you don't want to leave unmoderated. It's a troll magnet for obvious reasons, and that starts to affect the rest of the instance (and the fediverse) if there isn't anyone enforcing some sort of decorum.

@ernest I know you're ridiculously busy right now, but could you find a moment to appoint someone to recruit a mod team for /m/politics? I'd be willing to do the recruiting if you don't have any better candidates, but I wouldn't want to remain on as a moderator after that's done.

Alternatively does anyone here actively want the job?

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (3 children)

...Annnd they made /m/politics a USA thing only.

It's fine, leave this bone to the attention seekers and get your news from another magazine.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Don't want it to metastatize though. The culture on kbin seems pretty good right now, but that'll change for the worse if significant troll targets are left unmoderated.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

r/politics was for US politics, so I suppose that's what they're emulating.

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

I figured the usual /r/politics types were gonna flock to it. so yeah usa-specific, liberal/establishment democrat political bias.