Hello World,
Due to our pace of growth, our platform ended up with thousands of communities created by you, our dear users. While we are still appreciative of every community effort, we decided we need to be able to better assist and publicize them. To assist with this effort, we now have two community team positions available:
- The Community Engagement Team: This team will work with community moderators and find ways to increase their engagement, provide them with easy access to logo and banner options, and communicate with you better to assure transparency as needed. Team capacity: 6 new members expected
- The Community Management Team: This team will be responsible of making sure communities have active moderators, assuring compliance in Lemmy.World communities, and keeping track of community moderation logs in order to assure they are moderated in good health. Team capacity: 6 new members expected
Both of these teams will be working closely with the admin team, and are expected to become ways for our users to have enhanced control of their instance. Let’s build something great together!
How to apply
All applications must include the following information:
- Your Lemmy.World registered username, and your reason to apply
- The position you are interested in
- Your time zone, and average availability level
All applications may be sent to @clueless_stoner@lemmy.world or @antik@lemmy.world, or e-mailed to info@lemmy.world
Can we make it a site wide policy to NOT have supermods?
I’ve already identified a couple of users who are accumulating mod positions like MTG cards, and some are the most toxic and intentionally astringent users who are constantly involved in all the drama.
This will be addressed soon.
Yea. I got banned from a community and zero clue why and when. I have a feeling it’s one of these.
Oh that is interesting. Have you tried searching for yourself in the modlog?
I messaged one of them. But it’s such a big sub, that it wouldn’t shock me.
Yo! I was the one that banned you. I have looked at the Modlog, and I still feel like it’s justified. Your ban is only temporary, and meant more as a warning to refrain from using personal attacks. Know that you are very welcome to post, if you follow the rules of the community.
If you have any questions, let me know (:
Oh! I appreciate the response. Seemed to come from nowhere. I was engaging with an obvious troll and just saying “no u” to his attacking of me. I didn’t think it was so treacherous.
Yea no problem. There was one comment where you called them stupid (and one where you implied the same), and you did the same to someone else a two months ago (we look at the modlog for that stuff). The culmination of that leaded to a temp ban. That’s our standard policy. We suggest reporting and not engaging with obvious trolls (;
We also don’t like that a ban isn’t made clear to the one that was banned, but that seems like something lemmy itself has to fix.
Edit: I also unbanned you, because it seems like a genuine mistake.
The modlog is public and you can use it to look up your username and the ban or removal reasons. This was not an action of a single moderator and the actions look justified tbh.
Why aren’t people notified of this in an individual way? Seemed to come out of nowhere. I had no idea I was banned or why. Unless I posted here I would have never known nor would I even keep exploring the subject.
It’s how Lemmy works unfortunately, doesn’t let the user know any of the moderator actions taken. But you can do a search in the modlog.
Looking at the modlog, it was News for repeated rude comments. Good news! It’s only 2 more days!
Rule 1 in News is “1. Be civil”. You were marked as multiple rule 1 violations and had multiple comments removed.
So you’ll be off the 3 day ban soon, keep it clean and you’ll be fine.
Same.
If I might make a suggestion: let them choose their X most important communities to them that they want to mod (X being whatever number of comms you think is appropriate), then remove them from any others. If they don’t choose, they don’t get any.
If they want to mod another group they have to surrender their mods privs in a current one.
100%
This was the downfall of reddit for me, and I fear that it’s playing out again here 😐
Hmmmm, how can we make reddit a forum for free discourse? By banning discourse or restricting it to only politically correct groups.
How would you deal with one person with multiple accounts? I don’t know how youd deal with the round about way of being a supermod
I also feel supermods and toxic mods are two different things that should be treated as such. Both can pose problems, but they do not have to go hand in hand.
They’re different problems. But together they compound to something much worse. It basically invalidates moderation tools in place.
I agree with this opinion. at least put more well respected people of the @lemmy.world community in charge could have a vote on it as well that way everyone has a say in the final outcome
Can’t second this enough
Maybe a cap on the number of communities you can be a mod in.
After modding for over 15 years at the other place, it has strongly solidified my opinion that the only people that want to be mods are broken people that love the surge of power they get from being a water-cooler dictator. Modding should be a job nobody actively wants, and when they do it they do it with reservations, reluctance and a tinge of resentment.
100% agreed. A bad mod is a dictator trying to rule over others. A good mod is more a janitor, someone who works in the background to keep the place clean for others to enjoy, and doesn’t expect to be worshipped.
you should clarify if these are volunteer positions or paid, and what level of hours/commitment are expected as such.
This is a volunteer platform, and as such no one is paid. Applicants may include their availability info and be considered accordingly.
i love you @lwadmin@lemmy.world
I love you too ;)
I thought we had something special together, but now I catch you with a clueless stoner
😿
You think people are paid to do this?
How many hours a week would you expect a member to contribute?
I would say a minimum of 10 hours/week is pretty fair. As it is a volunteer position, we would still be very understanding if you can’t always make the time.
🙌
If someone’s primary account is on another instance, can they still help out?
ex. I have a lemmy.world account for cross instance moderation, but I don’t really have to use most of the time
Since it’s more focused on Lemmy World communities it would make sense to have some affinity with the instance so a local account would be preferred.
Makes sense :)
Nice
Applied! Hoping I can help. :D EDIT: Nope. :(
Ok
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Rightfully rejected imo. This is exactly the kind of comments that made Reddit the toxic environment it is in so many subs nowadays.
Definitely, and remember to always report toxic content both in feddit.nl and lemmy.world 🙂
No, it was due to people like you
Fine with me.
I would like to apply please. For the community engagement team
Nope
For all of those who are down voting the nope, read the instructions on how to apply in the post. You all failed that trick test teachers handed out in grade school, where if you actually read the instructions, it tells you to put your name on the paper and put down your pencil without trying to answer any of the questions on the test, because the test is “do you pay attention to shit” not “do you know the answers”.
The comment still do not seem to be in good faith.
I got a laugh out of it!
And I’m glad it worked that way! :)
Bad faith or unconventional sense of humor… Come to think of it they’re probably not mutually exclusive.
Ages ago on reddit I got banned from r/justiceserved for merely commenting on r/conservative this was on a post about tianmemen square they had a autobot set up which’ll automatically check wherever someone subscribes comments or posts prehaps it’ll be worth considering maybe trying do moderation differently on lemmy to reddit is
Yeah it happens, I remember getting banned from r/offmychest for making a comment in /watchredditdie. Lots of live examples from Reddit on what not to do.
Same here. I got banned from leaving a comment questioning an antivax subreddit that another subreddit used an autoban bot to monitor. There was no attempt to take context into consideration. This type of moderation behavior should be unacceptable.
One minor update here: I also need someone who enjoys writing and has some free time. This would be direct assistance and working together, rather thN a named and famed team. 🙂
