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.
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.
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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.
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.
I have two discord servers I own. Modding them is…well, awful.
I spend enough time here that I’d be willing to help out. I think I can be a pretty good judge and allow opinions that are wildly different from mine as long as they contribute to a conversation.
I’m just not real motivated to compete with a bunch of other people who really want the job and will grovel to get it. I’m happy to help; I’m not desperate for an unpaid position in order to lord power over people.
I’d basically do it because I’ve been on the wrong end of bad moderation, and I don’t want to see more of it.
(I was permanently banned from r/leagueoflegends for saying Covid wouldn’t be fatal for a team of young 20-somethings that were all vaccinated. It was in a post about a team catching Covid. My statement isn’t perfect, but it sure didn’t seem worthy of permanent removal on a first offense.)
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.