Awesome, I was hoping you would want to as you are a regular poster. :)
This whole thing feels like those work meetings where there was a huge effort to put together a piece of communication, but then at the final hour a group of bosses endlessly start wordsmithing every single sentence.
I wish our city councilors would do ... anything else.
I don't think housing can "solve" drug addiction. However, there are factors that have been shown to contribute to addiction from homelessness. Less stability, regular trauma, mental health, etc causes all of these things to interact and exasperate each other.
The frustrating part is that voters keep telling the city, county, and state to invest in all of these areas. Measure 110 was supposed to create more space to have drug addiction treated, and there was no follow through. Now, further existing infrastructure is closing with no replacement. Similarly with housing, voters overwhelmingly keep calling for housing solutions, but any progress turns into new vendor procurement, deals with developers that don't follow through, and half baked plans that don't materialize.
Also, I think it's important to remember that a lot of drug addiction happens amongst the housed. We just don't see it. But as our coworker who is struggling falls apart, loses their job, and times get tough the more likely they will be the one moving from pain pills at home to fentanyl in the streets.
I'm glad some of the electeds are at least acting like they are as frustrated as I am. I hope they actually do something about it. (thought the need for national reform on both housing and drug addiction also can't be ignored).
The admins finally responded after a few days, but by then I had already removed the other user as a mod (the method to do so is a bit hidden).
Currently there are two mods, myself and @[email protected] who created this community, but has since deleted all their posts and hasn't posted again in years. In order to remove a mod though you need to click into a post they made. With no posts, I can't remove absolutebeginner even if I wanted to.
I'm not a part of the demographic who would experience racism around this. So, I can't comment there.
I am a white hipster though. So, I usually call my window manager customizations "artisanally hand crafted".
Thank you for responding.
I removed BarterClub as a mod, but suggested they make a post asking the existing community for support in becoming a mod. If the existing users are OK with it, then I'm happy to add them back.
If possible, I would suggest a change to process where the admin verifies the community is abandoned before adding mods.
Apparently mods can remove other mods. It's just hidden and only accessible if you click into a post the mod made.
I encourage you to make a post in the community asking if everyone would be alright with adding you as a mod. If there are no major objections then we can add you.
What are you talking about? I suggested you should talk to the community and if everyone is cool with it then we can make you a mod. The issue is that our autonomy was undermined due to the mistake, and it can be corrected by you demoding yourself and making a post asking the community if they are OK adding you as a mod.
Mods on Lemmy don't have permissions to remove other mods. You need to demod yourself, or an admin needs to remove you.
I think it would be totally reasonable to make a post and ask the active members there what they think about you becoming a mod. We've been having conversations there on what we want the community to be, and I've been trying to empower everyone to give input. So, suddenly seeing a new mod with no community input runs counter to that.
Also, regardless of the federation issue, it is concerning that the admins did not verify that the community was abandoned, when simply clicking on my account would have quickly shown it was not.
For example, I posted this (as a mod) in c/Portland 5 days ago (3 days before BarterClub claimed it had "no mods"): https://lemmy.ml/post/1841804
El juego parece muy divertido. Estoy feliz de ver que regresan mรกs actividades al aire libre a las calles de Portland.