This community started as a way to share what I found interesting and help promote the instance. I had no expectations of it growing to the size it is right now. As a result, the basic rules of the community are no longer seem to be enough to keep up with the activity. I’m grateful to people who post, comment and have honest discussions, but lately more and more discussions are going off into off-topic and leads to personal attacks.
I am of a strong opinion that discussions and disagreements on the merit lead to real conversations and stronger positions. But, all of that is lost, when conversations devolve into ad hominem attacks.
Likewise, I believe in evaluating each individual article or source on its own merit. As a result, all sources are welcome here, and each of you can evaluate what do you think about it. Voting and commenting should be used to express those thoughts, not report button.
Lastly, misinformation. The whole concept of misinformation is impossible to enforce. I’m just a single person, who is not a subject expert in every single field. Use your brain and do your own research, verify information with multiple sources. If you find something that can lead to immediate danger, report and include as much information as possible so that it can be appropriately evaluated.
New rules
- English only: Title and associated content has to be in English.
- No social media posts: Avoid all social media posts. Try searching for a source that has a written article or transcription on the subject.
- Respectful communication: All communication has to be respectful of differing opinions, viewpoints, and experiences.
- Inclusivity: Everyone is welcome here regardless of age, body size, visible or invisible disability, ethnicity, sex characteristics, gender identity and expression, education, socio-economic status, nationality, personal appearance, race, caste, color, religion, or sexual identity and orientation.
- Ad hominem attacks: Any kind of personal attacks are expressly forbidden. If you can’t argue your position without attacking a person’s character, you already lost the argument.
- Off-topic tangents: Stay on topic. Keep it relevant.
- Instance rules may apply: If something is not covered by community rules, but are against lemmy.zip instance rules, they will be enforced.
Thank you everyone who participates, and I hope you continue participating in the future.
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Hello,
I’m about to promote this community on !newcommunities@lemmy.world , but before that I wanted to ask you if you were planning to take on one more mod? It’s usually good practice to have a backup person in case the main mod goes missing
I’m not against it, but that person would need to be a good fit and have a similar philosophy in relation to this community. And at current levels of activity, there isn’t a particular need for it. If that were to change, I would more actively search for an additional person.
And in an unlikely case that I ever went MIA unannounced, the instance admins are pretty good at finding replacements during monthly server update posts. And they have a mod bot running at the instance level to generate reports on flagged content.
With 2.8k monthly active users, having another mod seems reasonable.
To be honest, I think it just sends a better message having at least two mods compared to only one person, but you do you.
@BrikoX@lemmy.zip do you think maybe you could spread your posts out over the day? Right now on my front page, 12 of 19 posts are from you to this community.
I’m sorry, but I’m not a robot or a bot, so I only post stuff when I actually read in my RSS feed. I can’t dedicate x minutes per hour to posting some content.
Yeah I understand that, but when you do a bunch of posts all at once it floods the feed for people.
I don’t know if it’s something Lemmy could fix by altering the sort algorithm, but that’s how it works right now.
More people posting would be the best solution.
Have you reconsidered getting another mod ? I see !world@quokk.au reaching similar levels of activity while being much more recent, and I think it’s because the original mod added other mods quite quickly
There was in total 1 action made by another moderator in that community. https://m.lemmy.zip/modlog?community=701936
It might be perceived bias by users that more mods = better, but there isn’t a practical need for it at the moment. But like I said previously, I’m always open to idea. People are welcome to apply.
@Deceptichum@quokk.au and @PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat, what do you think?
Would it be worth thinking about consolidating the communities? Having two very similar communities running in parallel seems counterproductive
There is a bit of misconception of what this community is. It’s not really meant to compete with
lemmy.worldor anyone else really.Instead of creating just another identical community, I decided to create something more worthwhile. The focus of this community is to create a space where open discussions can happen. And while to many it might sound “great”, the reality is that people are used to ultra moderated communities where they only see their own point of view reinforced. So having some unpopular opinions expressed and when they report it, them not being removed, is controversial. But that’s what open forum looks like.
The community has clear rules, and they are always enforced, but I don’t moderate opinions that don’t break any rules. Even if they are against my personal views or unpopular. That is reflected in the modlog, as I always point to the rule broken instead of writing unique reasons for different situations.
I’m not familiar enough with !world@quokk.au to know their philosophy, but my DMs are always open. My Matrix handle is also available in the profile if more secure communications are preferred.
I’d be fine with moderating, if it’s seen as useful.
For what my two cents is worth, I don’t necessarily see redundant communities as a problem. It’s like having multiple pubs all in one town. Just because they all do the same thing doesn’t mean there needs to be only one.
hmm.
