I cannot personally dedicate the time to moderation, but I do want to be active in this magazine.
However, we are in need of community guidelines and moderators because @ernest is already a very busy person (_greatly appreciate all your work!!_). There are already a few bad faith actors in this community space that are dominating the airwaves with bigotry and reporting them is fairly ineffective right now because there’s only one moderator who is actually the instance dev.
Would anyone in this community space like to take over moderation here? Basic requirement: positive reputation score. I think if we talk it out and then reach out to Ernest, he can promote two or three people to moderate.
I’ve got enough time to help out during the week but the weekend I have very little time available… more then happy to help out if it’s needed
I have sent a DM to @ernest to ask we be added to the mod team here. I checked out all of your profiles and it’s clear that you all make positive contributions to a variety of communities with both engaging comments and thread submissions based on reputation scores. It’s also clear that none of us are political die-hards and we are multi-faceted users. If @ernest is open to it and we establish the mod team, we can coordinate between ourselves later. I’ll DM each of you with that info when it’s time to cross that bridge.
@Grumps If we move up as mods, can you be a very dedicated community member and report bad faith commenters and rage-bait threads whenever you see them? And help communicate in other threads in !politics that we will be responsive to new reports made to the moderators?
Sure thing! And, good luck!
Thank ya thank ya!
Mod post is now stickied at the top of !politics soliciting input for community guidelines. Feel free to chime in!
I’ve never moderated, but I can try to help where I can.
I don’t have experience moderating political subs, but I am online a lot and I can help. Especially for something simple like dealing with trolls and bad faith actors.
I’ll post another comment later this evening, but I think the main objective is to just have a couple of people to keep an eye on things since Ernest is too busy being an awesome instance dev for us.
This community is too small to require round-the-clock vigilance, and it’s not reasonable to expect mods to remove content immediately.
I think if we just get 3 or 4 people who are willing to check the report logs once or twice a day, each, then we can at least establish a really rewarding community here.
That is definitely the sort of thing I can commit to.
very little people wants to dirty their hand moderating a very divisive community like Politics
This. I could help with some of the obvious trolls (e.g., posts such as, “open your eyes! The leftists are okay with trans genocide!!”) but identitying and enforcing fair community rules while trying to be mindful of my own biases would be a lot of work.
I thought you were joking, but two posts down in my feed I saw the leftist trans genocide post. Yikes.
I don’t think asking for completely neutral moderators is the goal. But finding folks who at least will open the reports log and lay down the law to prevent the eventual slide into being overrun by trolls.
I would be open to it but I only exclusively use mobile and am not in front of a laptop or computer while using kbin.
