The Agora
In the spirit of the Ancient Greek Agora, we invite you to join our vibrant community - a contemporary meeting place for the exchange of ideas, inspired by the practices of old. Just as the Agora served as the heart of public life in Ancient Athens, our platform is designed to be the epicenter of meaningful discussion and thought-provoking dialogue.
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@[email protected] in the perfect world community admins should be moderating their communities and the site admins should only be called upon when there is community abuse or when community mods are not doing any moderation.
As @[email protected] mentioned below @[email protected] is an alt account for same person on lemmy.world ans she has provided tons of help to this instance.
You are right about one thing, I am currently stretched really thin. If made a list of all my responsibilities I think it would shock a lot of you. That being said the amount of time it takes to run a community is astonishing and running a community well requires a lot more time than I have left to give. There is still a lot of work needed to be spent on this site.
The admins of this site help a huge amount as is mostly due to them that we are still running but I don't want to dump more onto their plates.
I could use a lot more help in all areas (system administration, community moderation, legal revision, moving to accepting donations).
If anyone is interested in helping reach out on Matrix.
Yea, I don't mean to criticize anyone's work here.
Just keeping the server running and updated is already a lot in itself. (BTW thanks for 0.18.5)
There are a few mods we haven't seen in months, maybe some are helping behind the curtain, maybe others moved on, in which case that's more work on your collective plates.
Community mods you can trust would definitely be something worth its weight in gold. In theory, if every community moderated itself, then the admin load would be much less. The odds of that happening when anyone can create a community is doubtful, but then limiting that also comes with its own drawbacks.
Can't really win.
Then you all have lives and jobs too and that's taking time away from that for little personal benefit.
To all the admins and mods involved: Thanks.
It's something we never take the time for, but thanks for all you're doing.
Me? I'm a network engineer by day, and well — an overworked network engineer by night, I guess.
I'm of a nature to help out but I don't always have much juice left at the end of the day and can't guarantee how much I could actually commit.
Meanwhile, I try to help in small ways, occasionally reaching out about the more egregious stuff (which is usually acted upon quickly by the team).
(I have worked about 30h in the last 36 hours, so I might not be the most coherent)
Again, thanks for all the work it takes to even have this website up at all.