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submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by MightBe to c/politics
 

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.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (25 children)

I mean, your tone is kind of on display right here. From the other thread, you took a mod away which is completely understood. Here, the mod posting this is saying you're working together. My actual, real concern is that you guys are curating or planning to curate what you want shown like the old place used to do. It's not a known thing, it's a concern and you guys don't do anything to alleviate it.

And what concern would that be? We can not be involved at all? I think we are pretty hands-off. We took action when a moderator broke the site rules.

[–] antik 5 points 11 months ago (19 children)

Again, we're hands-off. We do have a discord server where all moderators have access to and were every > 2.5k users community has their own channel. We only get involved when we are asked or when site rules are broken.

I personally had issues with YoBuck's takes since very early on but we never stepped in because he wasn't breaking any of the site rules. Until today.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (18 children)

What are your plans about stepping in in the future? When my comments were disappearing and no one deleted their comments, one of your admins was pretty aggressive and also seems to have been lying about what can and can't happen on the admin side. I don't have trust in you guys right now and as I said, your first comment's tone was pretty shitty here as well. I would prefer not to start up the shitjustworks politics community, but as you can tell, I'm ready to go if I have to. TBF, it probably wouldn't be a threat to you or the others anyway. But why do you guys care so much about being the biggest or only one to go to? It's odd. The defensiveness and aggressiveness don't fit and aren't necessary.

[–] antik 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

one of your admins was pretty aggressive and also seems to have been lying about what can and can’t happen on the admin side

I've looked through that thread on your LW account and I don't see any aggressiveness? Rooki was doing his best to help you and clear things up: https://lemmy.world/comment/5946853

Lemmy software is buggy man.

I would prefer not to start up the shitjustworks politics community, but as you can tell, I’m ready to go if I have to

Ok?

[–] [email protected] -5 points 11 months ago (2 children)

To be sure, you have 2.270 comments, what comments you mean? and the comments can just be from blocked users, or from a language you dont have. or i still dont understand from who it comes those comments. And every action is logged in the modlogs.

This is not the original but okay. Have a great day.

[–] antik 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Please try to remember that not everyone on the site is a native english speaker.

And what do you mean this is not the original? There's another thread besides this one? https://lemmy.world/post/9248046

[–] [email protected] -4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

That was not the original words he used, it was much more in the tone of your first message, so it's been changed. Meaning, someone changed it to make it sound better. I didn't know I needed to take screenshots, but then again, I don't. I'm just not going to be hanging around here anymore.

One last question before I go. Again, what are your plans for curating in the future?

[–] antik 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

We don't curate - it's up to the mods to make sure reports are handled timely and the site rules are enforced. Only when that doesn't happen we step in.

Anyway you're not arguing in good faith here. You're already mod on sh.itjust.works and you came here looking for confirmation to your bias nothing else. Good luck!

[–] [email protected] -4 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Says the guy that posted to a comment that was modified. I hate being a mod, it was great here until you ruined it. I like how you dodged the question twice now about whether or not you're going to curate in the future, not currently.

[–] antik 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

What are you on about? You said you were being lied to and that one of the admins was agressive towards you so I looked.. You think I knew what words were used before? I know Rookie and I know him as someone who will go out of his way to help people.

it was great here until you ruined it

I've been here since the very beginning

[–] [email protected] -3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I have no idea who changed it, but I know it was. I know how this is going to play out and you guys have proven yourself to me that I should at the very least, not trust you. It's not a huge deal, you just lost me and no one is probably reading this far. I know what happened and you guys trying to belittle it or make it sound like I'm trying to do something, I have no idea what, makes me know you guys are exactly like reddit admins/mods. I'm done with that. Bye.

[–] antik 4 points 11 months ago

Man you're too much. Goodbye indeed

[–] Thekingoflorda 4 points 11 months ago

How would you envision us curating? We as admins have a simple goal: make sure the site rules are followed, and help if a mod requests it. If with curating you mean that we delete stuff that doesn't follow the rules, then yes we curate, if you mean that we only allow stuff we like, than no we have never and will never do that.

[–] Rooki 3 points 11 months ago

I did edit it directly after sending it because i am not a native english speaker and had some hikups there. I tried to be helpfull! At least i didnt just deleted all the comments there like you

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