I am currently the only moderator, I don't want to spam my own posts to any community though. I would rather them develop on their own and hope the community and posts come/grow organically.
this post was submitted on 11 Jun 2023
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Why are you moderating so many communities though? I checked your profile. You are moderating like 60 communities. Power trip much?
You are moderating both "Democrat" and "Republican".. lol..
And you are not even building the communities, you just created them with the sole purpose of being the mod.
Because the way communities came to be moderated on Reddit created horrible echo chambers between banning people for disagreeing views or forcing their own opinions/views down people's throats via content removal, I wanted to grab them before the same terrible mods from Reddit did.
> You are moderating both “Democrat” and “Republican”… lol…
It's almost like you don't have to have entirely one-sided views and can moderate content without bias and without creating hate-filled echo chambers.
If you'd like to participate in either of those feel free to ask, I'm not here to "power trip".
I disagree. I think you should mod a community that interests you. I doubt you are interested in every single one of those 60 communities. Are you even LGBTQ? You mod that one as well. Hopefully you are!
My suggestion would be to delete the ones you don't want to engage in daily. You are just parking there. Some users probably want to mod some communities that you are already "modding", but do not because you did it first. You do nothing for the community. They would make it great, and grow it and foster it and treat it well.
What you are doing is a disservice to the lemmy space.
Thank you for your assumptions about me, I am gay, is that okay with you? You’re more than welcome to participate in any community you’d like to regardless of who moderates it. Thanks for your suggestions though they mean so much.
Edit - Nice edit to make yourself sound like less of an asshole.
the beauty of this platform is that everyone could form their own “Democrat” and “Republican” communities if they chose to do so.
I think at this early stage it would not be considered spam to post links, but part of building a community.
Noted, if I see something worth posting I will post it.
I would be more concerned with content at this point. I think having a wider group of mods is important as well, but right now what I do not see is enough content to draw me to visit c/news regularly. If @Hurtz isn't going to play fairly as a mod then the modlog will show that and I would expect that user and content submitters will move on and the community will die. I am happy to help mod at some point as well. Right now I am just trying to figure out how to disable every comment on content I submit becoming a message in my inbox. If that is not ultimately a feature of Lemmy then I think content submission will become all bots vs actual users. I am happy to spend 20 or 30 minutes of my morning submitting article from various news sources, but I would rather not be spammed for it.