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Hi all,

I'm an admin on lemmy.blahaj.zone, /196's home instance. I'm not a member of /196, and I'm not familiar with its history. However, I'm seeing a LOT of reports coming through that aren't being actioned by community mods.

It looks like the original mod has deleted their account, and the remaining mod hasn't been active since their initial post 2 days ago.

What I'm hoping to see is that @threegnomes logs back in, appoints some mods and gets things under control.

But should that not happen, I'm going to need to step in and appoint some mods myself

Either way, if you're interested in being a mod, please reply below. I (and hopefully @threegnomes) will look at everyone that gets lots of community support (via upvotes or replies) and put some more mods in.

Lots of upvotes doesn't mean you automatically get the job. I reserve the right to veto candidates that I think are going to create more work rather than reduce it.

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I would be interested in being a mod, honestly just want people to not be jerks, we can disagree just don't be mean.

Also Trans Rights are Human rights. Human rights are non-negotiable.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)

basically this IMO

  1. be excellent to each other

  2. party on dudes*

*pending gender neutralization

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

gotta neutralize all them genders

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

idk where the discourse regarding the "gender neutral dude" landed, although I considered swapping it out for "amigo" but that obviously has its own gendered nature, although I think in English it is suitable neutered ("amiga" means nothing to English speakers except to computer nerds)

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

I just found that a bit funny, dw. also, as a native Spanish speaker, I do find "amigo/a" a tad annoying hahaha. guess gender neutralization™ is somewhat difficult hahahahahab :'D

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago

I can play custodian if you need it. It'd be super lame to see this community get goofed on by spam or bigoted stuff, after managing to regrow so fast.

[–] moss 20 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Hi there, I'm interested in becoming a mod because I run a bunch of events on 196s discord server, as well as run the 195 community here on lemmy as the sole moderator. 195 was originally 196 before this version was created, and has nearly as many active users. I also have a little bit of prior experience moderating on other websites like reddit and discord. (I'm also very much not a tankie) thanks!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Congrats, welcome to the mod team. I leave the community in your hands :)

[–] moss 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)
[–] moss 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Do I need to make a separate account to moderate a community on a different instance? This account is on Lemmy.world

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

I just sent a new report through for your post saying "test report". That should appear soon in the shield icon notifications at the top of the page

[–] moss 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I didn't get it. I also don't see 196 in my mod list on my profile. Are you sure you added me?

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

You're showing as a mod on my end. I wonder if it's a version issue? We haven't upgraded to 17.3 or 17.4 yet.

[–] moss 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Maybe?? I'm only showing up as a mod on the homepage of 196 on the blahaj.lemmy instance. Everywhere else, I don't show up as a mod

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

I'll poke @[email protected] and see if we can upgrade to the lemmy RC sometime this weekend, and hopefully that will resolve it.

[–] moss 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Lol thank you. 😅😅😅 Sorry to have turned out to be much more of a headache than I intended

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

Not your fault! There's something weird going on there on our end.

[–] moss 1 points 1 year ago

Appreciate it.

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

If you want to make an account in Blahaj lemmy until we get the moderation federation sorted out, you're welcome to do so

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

Hello this is my new alt for the time being

[–] moss 2 points 1 year ago

Confirming this is me

[–] moss 1 points 1 year ago

Oh awesome if this doesn't magically fix itself in the next 10 minutes I'll fill out the application.

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

Nope, you should be able to moderate across instances just fine.

You'll have a shield icon on the top of your screen where report notifications will appear, though you likely won't see old reports. You'll get new ones from this point on though.

You should also be able to see historical actions in the modlog link on the right info panel for the community. You should see new options under the 3 dot menu for users in the sub, as well as (hopefully) having an edit link for the the community itself at the top right of the information panel for the community

[–] moss 2 points 1 year ago

Got it. I'm familiar with the moderation system, 195's given me a bit of practice

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago

I'll put my name forward as a potential mod but whoever you pick, just please for the love of god make sure they aren't a tankie. You can usually sus them out by asking about the holodomor or the molotov-ribbentrop pact.

[–] Ryumast3r 18 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Rule 196 is a simple rule: if you enter the "sub" (obviously from reddit), you must post before leaving.

It usually ends up being very random, which leads it to both being easy and very difficult to moderate.

For a long time the original reddit version had some toxicity and lots of porn (or at least NSFW content). If it isn't marked NSFW, I'd do that and (assuming NSFW is allowed on lemmy.blahaj) mostly leave it be unless there's something really problematic and/or potentially illegal.

Honestly have no idea how to even moderate these communities. Reddit was hard enough without 3rd party tools.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Honestly, most of the reports that have come through don't even require action as far as I can tell. The biggest issue is, as the instance admin, I don't want to be dealing with reports for a community and making those calls, when many of them aren't breaking instance rules.

As long as the blahaj lemmy instance rules are followed, I don't care how the community is moderated, as long as it is :)

[–] Ryumast3r 11 points 1 year ago

Absolutely, 100% fair. Eventually it'll get to be too much for you to handle even if you wanted to.

I'm going to have to catch up on all the different instances' rules.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I wonder if any automoderation tools exist for Lemmy yet? I'd be willing to take a crack at building some but if an open-source project for that already exists I'd rather contribute there.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Unfortunately there don't seem to be any functional tools yet, but I've seen a few people mention interest so there might be some brand new projects.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I just made a post about it on [email protected] so hopefully if any are in the works I'll find out.

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

@ShittyKopper appears to be working on something called @lemmod publicly on a community on this instance I don't know how much progress they made.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I'd gladly help out, I have have mod experience being a moderator for a discord server (for a Minecraft mod). Never done anything mod-related for reddit/lemmy, but I'm sure it's not too different. I have lurked on r/196 for a while and really like the community and the idea (funny shitposting meme community but with a side of queerness). I didn't really interact much beyond upvoting on the subreddit, but I'm going to try and be more active and involved on this new platform :)

[–] phthalocyanin 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I hereby submit myself for consideration. I firmly oppose authoritarian apologists and jerks.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I don't even know what a 196 is

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Basically a shitposting subreddit looking for a home. But in a good way.

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

Im in for it but im transitioning (ha) between diffrent jobs now and if i get my new one it'll be 6 day 12 hour shifts. What im saying is that I'd love to help but my availability might be limited

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

I've never moderated anything before, but I am willing to try.

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

I'm interested in becoming a mod. I really like the friendly and progressive community that's formed on Lemmy, and I want to help maintain it.

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

Never moderated anything before, how much of a time commitment is it usually?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

On lemmy, for this community? I have zero idea!

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