If this takes off I will give mod access to the r/calgary mods I just intended to park the name so it wasn’t stolen by someone who didn’t intend to moderate it.
If this takes off I will give mod access to the r/calgary mods I just intended to park the name so it wasn’t stolen by someone who didn’t intend to moderate it.
I’d be happy to mod it :p
Can you agree to keep this sub bullshit free, please? I have no issues with you, but r/Calgary disolved into an absolute fucking mess. No active Calgary mods either, let them be incel fucking losers on Reddit.
I’m not sure what you mean by bullshit free, that’s pretty ambiguous. What you consider bullshit might not be for someone else etc. That said I think I’m pretty good with moderation, in general. I helped mod r/Calgary for I think 7 years? before it became too much. So much toxicity and drama, it was making me miserable and wasting my time over the most trivial of things. I still use reddit but haven’t used that sub since I left so I’m not even sure what it’s like now. I still see it sometimes when people drop links to posts in my Discord server but that’s about it.
For this place… I would personally roll with the same basic rules lemmy.ca has:
Don’t give a shit to babysit people, they can just block someone if they don’t want to communicate with them. It’s cool when people agree to disagree. Not everyone will agree with everything else but as long as you can share your feelings in a civil way, good stuff.
This place seems small and new enough where deeper conversations could be possible. There will probably be one-offs where someone will refuse to stop being a huge toxic asshole to everyone else, but I imagine that would infrequent, especially with the lemmy.ca mini-application to even create an account.
The thing is, the line between freedom of speech and censorship/polarizing something is razor thin. I know you know this. I’m an old school (former) r/Calgary member, like 10+ years, just under a different name. But this is the fediverse, not Reddit 2.0. At least I hope it isn’t.
I don’t envy anyone that wants to volunteer to moderate in this heavily polarized and post-pre-fucking-whatever-era-of-covid-we-are-in, let’s get that straight up front. I mean good on ya. If someone posts like racist transphobic shit or whatever, fucking quietly whack it and no one will oppose that I don’t think. Or if someone posts like super XXX shit or ads for t-shirts or whatever, like fuck right off with that shit. But let’s not list a whole bunch of rules straight off the hop, if ever here. Let’s make something new, because Reddit and especially r/Calgary are not healthy places, and they certainly aren’t places of freedom of speech or robust discussion, any longer. Not like the old days.
If I could give you Coles notes of what r/Calgary disolved into, I mean reading the rules is like reading an encyclopedia, the power mods then contradict those rules or make new ones up on the fly to shape the agenda. It turned into a bad echo chamber, like hyper polarized left wing bullshit. And that’s coming from a dude thats pretty left wing. If you wrote Nenshi isn’t the best mayor we ever had, you’ll get hundreds of downvotes, people DMing you calling you everything but an honest boy, everyone is so insulted, and the mods amp it up, because they let things disolve into echo chambers. But if anyone posts something contradictory, it’s immediately locked down or censored. I remember someone posting a COVID parade and saying like I don’t disagree with this guy’s sign and BOOM locked down. That’s actually how I got perma banned, because I dared to question why they locked the thread down, like it didn’t violate any rules. I mean everyone’s a critic, but fuck…
Its hard to explain, like it’s not their fault that a bunch of people don’t agree with me, or that whack jobs are DMing me, don’t worry about that, I can dish er out, and I love to chirp. But it’s like that because they are incubating that sort of environment over there with their terrible moderation. Like all the old regulars are now banned. I’m not talking ol’ Texy or anyone like that, I’m talking rational characters that were a part of the sub a decade ago. Everyone’s gotta have like 40 alt accounts if you want to participate, and trust me, you don’t. Your mental health and sanity is all the better for it. But when you pulled out of there, it just quickly turned into a vortex of bullshit.
Some of us have been on here for weeks. It’s been just fine without any moderation. I’m sure with the collapse of third party Reddit, the hoardes will come. Eventually so will the bots and whatever. But quiet moderation rules the day here, not loud attention whoring moderation that locks every second thread and shuts people down from discussing. I agree, it’s new and it’s been WAY better than Reddit so far. It’s actual passionate, pioneers (if you will) for right now. That won’t last though. Thanks for joining us!
Hopefully this community goes in a much better direction. I hate that my social media is just an echo chamber of all the beliefs I already hold. I want my thoughts and beliefs to be challenged, I want to be able to discuss opposing viewpoints with people, and I want to hear everyone’s sides. The best part about this being the anonymous internet is that if I don’t like something, or I don’t feel like engaging with something anymore, I can just stop. No one knows who I am. No one cares if I reply to a comment or not. I can block whoever or whatever I want.
I’m excited that Lemmy feels so fresh and that we can hopefully cultivate a community of civil discussion, even if we have opposing viewpoints.