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Lemmy.World Community Moderation Guidelines (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Guidelines

First of all, every community on Lemmy.world should follow the lemmy.world rules
Please create a sidebar with some contents, at least a description of the community and some extra rules when applicable
Adding a banner and icon for the community makes it prettier. Please do.
Every community needs enough moderators.

About moderators

Moderation is very important. This site needs to be a safe place for everyone. The more subscribers and posts, the more moderators you'll need. Make sure you have moderators in all timezones, so if bad stuff is reported in your community, it doesn't need to sit there until you're off work... As the community grows, add even more moderators.

Reports

A moderator will receive reports for reported content in their community. (The admins will receive a copy of all reports in all communities). Please resolve the reports according to the site rules and community rules, as soon as possible. If reports are open for too long (more than 24 hours), the admins will contact the moderator(s). If this keeps happening, the moderators might be replaced.

These guidelines are under construction. Please check back after a few days, hopefully it's more complete ;-)

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Some of the communities I've started are becoming more popular, and I have less time. Even tho everyone is 100% chill for now (only two reports and both false alarms), I guess I should add some mods.

My question is, do all mods have the same rights? In particular, can a mod remove another mod, especially myself? Or add new ones?

How to check other mods' work, e.g. whether they don't ban someone inappropriately?

What moderation tools are there? I only see removal and ban, is there anything else? I guess one can send a warning through a message?

I don't wanna be some dictator or anything, in fact I find it important to keep the atmosphere cool and let people express themselves even if they are upset or make a mistake. How to coordinate such an atmosphere?

A lot of people have weird experiences with Reddit mods that would ban you for nothing and were overall drama queens. I'd prefer to avoid that, if that makes sense.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Any mod can assign a new mod. The first mod / owner of the community can't be un-modded. There aren't many more tools yet. I sure hope there will be some added soon, moderating is very hard atm...

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

I think Lemmy needs a dedicated mod page that clearly outlines the actions that can take place with links to other views. We need a modmail page so that mods can be contacted and reply to questions anonymously (reply as group). We need a page that shows who we’ve banned and the reasons for the ban. There’s a lot more but this would be a good start.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

moderating is very hard atm…

Took me forever to find the context link on reports...or maybe I'm just dumb.