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Moderator Guidelines
- Don’t be mean to users. Be gentle or neutral.
- Most moderator actions which have a modlog message should include your username.
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- Ask another mod to take over cases you struggle with, if you get tired, or when things get personal.
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- Send users concise DMs about verdicts about them, such as bans etc, except in cases where it is clear we don’t want them at all, such as obvious transphobes. No need to notify someone they haven’t been banned of course.
- Explain to a user why their behavior is problematic and how it is distressing others rather than engage with whatever they are saying. Ask them to avoid this in the future and send them packing if they do not comply.
- First warn users, then temp ban them, then finally perma ban them when they break the rules or act inappropriately. Skip steps if necessary.
- Use neutral statements like “this statement can be considered transphobic” rather than “you are being transphobic”.
- No large decisions or actions without community input (polls or meta posts f.ex.).
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- Remember you are a voluntary moderator. You don’t get paid. Take a break when you need one. Perhaps ask another moderator to step in if necessary.
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Ho boy, where to start...
The moderators of the community [email protected] had disagreements with the admin team of blahaj.zone (Ada) and decided they wanted to move to lemmy.world.
The [email protected] community was locked with an announcement to visit [email protected] instead. This caused confusion/anger among much of the community who preferred the way blahaj.zone is run as an instance.
Ada did not want to forcefully reopen the [email protected] community and boot the mod team, but also did not want to leave the users of 196 feeling like they had no choice but to use the lemmy.world community, so she ~~opened~~ promoted [email protected] (which displays as 196) which is run by a different mod team.
There was still a lot of disagreement about the attempted move to [email protected], so the mods reopened the previous [email protected] community to placate folks.
The end result is that there are now three 196 communities (plus a 4th on Hexbear I think) which are each relatively active.
Edit: typos.
Edit 2: correction about the origin of [email protected]
I've noticed that lemmy.world is delisted from most instance lists, so it's interesting that they'd choose that one. Thank you for the answer!
About that: Lemmy.world is generally disliked for entirely reasonable reasons. They are the biggest instance due to it being seen as the default during the API exodus, and having a large population means that you are going to see a lot of trolls. Their mod policies also are very lenient with trolls, which a lot of people don't like. Also, people are kinda sick of how all the big communities are on .world instead of being spread out across the fediverse.