Hi all,

I’m an admin on lemmy.blahaj.zone, /196’s home instance. I’m not a member of /196, and I’m not familiar with its history. However, I’m seeing a LOT of reports coming through that aren’t being actioned by community mods.

It looks like the original mod has deleted their account, and the remaining mod hasn’t been active since their initial post 2 days ago.

What I’m hoping to see is that @threegnomes logs back in, appoints some mods and gets things under control.

But should that not happen, I’m going to need to step in and appoint some mods myself

Either way, if you’re interested in being a mod, please reply below. I (and hopefully @threegnomes) will look at everyone that gets lots of community support (via upvotes or replies) and put some more mods in.

Lots of upvotes doesn’t mean you automatically get the job. I reserve the right to veto candidates that I think are going to create more work rather than reduce it.

  • moss@lemmy.worldMEnglish
    12·
    1 year ago

    Hi there, I’m interested in becoming a mod because I run a bunch of events on 196s discord server, as well as run the 195 community here on lemmy as the sole moderator. 195 was originally 196 before this version was created, and has nearly as many active users. I also have a little bit of prior experience moderating on other websites like reddit and discord. (I’m also very much not a tankie) thanks!

      • moss@lemmy.worldMEnglish
        2·
        1 year ago

        Do I need to make a separate account to moderate a community on a different instance? This account is on Lemmy.world

        • Ada@lemmy.blahaj.zoneOPEnglish
          1·
          1 year ago

          I just sent a new report through for your post saying “test report”. That should appear soon in the shield icon notifications at the top of the page

        • Ada@lemmy.blahaj.zoneOPEnglish
          0·
          1 year ago

          Nope, you should be able to moderate across instances just fine.

          You’ll have a shield icon on the top of your screen where report notifications will appear, though you likely won’t see old reports. You’ll get new ones from this point on though.

          You should also be able to see historical actions in the modlog link on the right info panel for the community. You should see new options under the 3 dot menu for users in the sub, as well as (hopefully) having an edit link for the the community itself at the top right of the information panel for the community

          • moss@lemmy.worldMEnglish
            0·
            1 year ago

            Got it. I’m familiar with the moderation system, 195’s given me a bit of practice

  • Silverstrings@lemmy.blahaj.zone
    6·
    1 year ago

    I’ll put my name forward as a potential mod but whoever you pick, just please for the love of god make sure they aren’t a tankie. You can usually sus them out by asking about the holodomor or the molotov-ribbentrop pact.

  • Jediotty@beehaw.orgEnglish
    5·
    1 year ago

    I would be interested in being a mod, honestly just want people to not be jerks, we can disagree just don’t be mean.

    Also Trans Rights are Human rights. Human rights are non-negotiable.

        • GrandmasterFrank@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
          1·
          1 year ago

          idk where the discourse regarding the “gender neutral dude” landed, although I considered swapping it out for “amigo” but that obviously has its own gendered nature, although I think in English it is suitable neutered (“amiga” means nothing to English speakers except to computer nerds)

          • akari@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
            1·
            1 year ago

            I just found that a bit funny, dw. also, as a native Spanish speaker, I do find “amigo/a” a tad annoying hahaha. guess gender neutralization™ is somewhat difficult hahahahahab :'D

  • Ryumast3r@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    1 year ago

    Rule 196 is a simple rule: if you enter the “sub” (obviously from reddit), you must post before leaving.

    It usually ends up being very random, which leads it to both being easy and very difficult to moderate.

    For a long time the original reddit version had some toxicity and lots of porn (or at least NSFW content). If it isn’t marked NSFW, I’d do that and (assuming NSFW is allowed on lemmy.blahaj) mostly leave it be unless there’s something really problematic and/or potentially illegal.

    Honestly have no idea how to even moderate these communities. Reddit was hard enough without 3rd party tools.

    • Ada@lemmy.blahaj.zoneOPEnglish
      3·
      1 year ago

      Honestly, most of the reports that have come through don’t even require action as far as I can tell. The biggest issue is, as the instance admin, I don’t want to be dealing with reports for a community and making those calls, when many of them aren’t breaking instance rules.

      As long as the blahaj lemmy instance rules are followed, I don’t care how the community is moderated, as long as it is :)

      • Ryumast3r@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        1 year ago

        Absolutely, 100% fair. Eventually it’ll get to be too much for you to handle even if you wanted to.

        I’m going to have to catch up on all the different instances’ rules.

    • Lanthanae@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      I wonder if any automoderation tools exist for Lemmy yet? I’d be willing to take a crack at building some but if an open-source project for that already exists I’d rather contribute there.

  • altoids0@lemmy.blahaj.zone
    1·
    1 year ago

    I can play custodian if you need it. It’d be super lame to see this community get goofed on by spam or bigoted stuff, after managing to regrow so fast.

  • Tyy@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    I’d gladly help out, I have have mod experience being a moderator for a discord server (for a Minecraft mod). Never done anything mod-related for reddit/lemmy, but I’m sure it’s not too different. I have lurked on r/196 for a while and really like the community and the idea (funny shitposting meme community but with a side of queerness). I didn’t really interact much beyond upvoting on the subreddit, but I’m going to try and be more active and involved on this new platform :)