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[Announcement] Official Community Guidelines are now published (legal.programming.dev)
submitted 1 month ago by UlrikHD to c/meta
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Programming.dev now has official community guidelines. These should help clarify what sort of local communities we allow to be hosted on the instance and the rules we expect them to follow.

As most programmers are aware, anticipating every edge case is generally not viable, so these are just guidelines, not written-in-stone rules. The admin team will still evaluate communities on a case-by-case basis, and exceptions are always possible.

If you have any feedback on the guidelines, we are more than happy to hear them, so please post them below.

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[–] onlinepersona 1 points 1 month ago (8 children)

I created a community for my blog [email protected] and wanted to add an admin as a moderator, as per the rules, but there's no interface functionality for that. How do I appoint a new moderator?

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[–] UlrikHD 0 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (7 children)

The mod tools are unfortunately pretty poor on Lemmy. For adding/removing moderators via the GUI the person must first post/comment in that specific community. You can then via the context menu of that post/comment add someone as a mod.

The alternative is to interact with the Lemmy API directly via a script.

I've added myself as a moderator, although the whole admin team may operate as moderators, similar to [email protected].

If you got additional changes you want to make to the community, e.g. add additional rules like make it explicit that only you can post, or add a banner to the community you should do it now before you're removed as a moderator. Otherwise you can always DM me/the admin team if you want to make changes to it.

Edit: As Blaze pointed out, you can use alternate frontends like https://t.programming.dev/ to gain additional GUI mod tools

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] UlrikHD 0 points 1 month ago

Huh, I wasn't aware that the alternate frontends offered more utility. Looks pretty nice actually, thanks for the tip.

Programming.dev offers the tesseract frontend here: https://t.programming.dev/

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