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Hello everyone,

As you may have noticed, our current single mod has been inactive for a while, and the description still mentions a wiki we currently don't have.

Would anyone be interested into moderating this community? I'm currently quite busy with a few others so I would rather not volunteer for this one.

Due to the low level of posts, the reports are probably limited, so the task should not take more than a few minutes per week.

Once we'll identify someone, we can use the [email protected] to request it

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (4 children)

My financial knowledge is pretty bad, but I login to Lemmy every day, so I could give a shot moderating reports.

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

You don't need financial knowledge to mod a sub, you just need to be fair in enforcing a set of rules (civility, off topic posts, etc). And yeah, most will likely just be people reporting stuff that you'd need to respond to.

I try to report as much as I can, but I'm not interested in being a mod because I'm lazy and will probably never look at the reports. I'm happy to generate content because that only requires occasional effort.

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

ok, i added you as a mod, although the existing mod @[email protected] is not entirely inactive - they posted 7 days ago.

now you get to decide about the offtopicness of this landlord thread (posted by the same OP as this thread) which is currently the most active thread here :)

(it has been getting many reports for being offtopic, which i've ignored because there was a pretty active discussion by the time i saw the first report.)

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

Thanks! Haha I'm gonna follow your decision and let it stay, but I'm already nervous for the future reports.

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

Congratulations! Seems like @[email protected] is willing to help, you might want to discuss with them.

From my short mod experience, it's nice to have people to discuss moderation decisions with

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

So, slight hiccup, I’m not showing as a mod on my instance. The sync issues are supposed to be fixed with 18.4, but it’s still not syncing my moderator status. @[email protected] has said they would retry after the next version upgrade. Or it might automatically sync after a few days.

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

I had the same issue on one of my communities. Not a big deal for me, but if it's an issue for you, you can always create an alt on LW and use it to moderate

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

I already have a LW alt, but I hardly ever use it. Wth I'll dust it off for at least a temporary measure, thanks for the suggestion.

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

You are welcome!

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

Could you please open a thread in [email protected] explaining why you would like the become the moderator?

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

Created a post https://programming.dev/post/2010603 (not sure how to get a link for your instance). Please feel free to add your comments.

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

Great, thank you!

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

That would be nice!