Hello!
I’m Arkhive (they/she), one of your new mods and I’ve just got a sort of update from the mod team.
We, the mods of Onehundredninetysix (hereby referred to as OneNineSix for my own sanity), would like to introduce ourselves. The members of the mod team that are interested will post a comment below this post and hopefully mingle a bit. Something that has come up in our discussions is a general interest in owning our actions, even in online spaces. That means putting people behind the names you see in the sidebar.
As the OneNineSix community coalesces, things have been quite good from our end. While we could be quicker at processing reports, a lot of that stems from us discussing choices as a group before making final decisions…and probably a bit more fear to use our power than is good for us, but time I’m sure will fix that proceeds to power trip. We are absolutely not infallible, and we also strive to admit wrong when necessary and work to rectify it. There is a degree of patience that necessarily extends both directions between mods and users, and in the end we are all users of the same space. We will work to be good stewards of this space for all those being good stewards with us.
And so! This thread. If this idea goes over poorly, please take it out in the replies to my comment, and we will assess and hopefully the other mods will dive in on the discussion too. We have also floated the idea of an irregularly occurring, semi-regular, mod chat thread. My pitch is for “Modly Mondays” but its still an idea in its infancy and feedback is welcome;)
Thank you for your time, thank you for the memes (the cat included), and I’ll remove see you from in the comments.
TL;DR I’m Arkhive (they/she), I’m a mod, there’s more of us (surprise!), and we’d like to introduce ourselves in the comments.
Side note: I realize this is being posted on a day there are protests happening across the US and presumably throughout the world. While this is not an explicitly US comm, I want to remind people to stay safe. Know your rights, know the ACLU phone number, have an exit plan, go as a group, and don’t talk to cops. We keep us safe.
Hi!
I’m TotallynotJessica (she/her), and I swear my name isn’t Jessica! >~<
I kinda kick started this comm with a post some may remember on femcelmemes, where I’m the community mom. I mentioned there that I really wanted to help mod a new comm, but I didn’t want to spearhead it. It takes a lot of work from all of us, and I knew I couldn’t do it alone. Thankfully, all the other mods share my enthusiasm for making this shitposting home welcoming and supportive for queer people and allies. We are all dedicated to having you involved in how we run things and using our power fairly proceeds to power trip
I hope to provide the emotional support, so feel free to dm me if you have anything that’s bothering you. I’ll try to reply as quickly as I can (which could be a day or two sometimes, so message others if I don’t give a response)
As far as who I am, I’m a transpoc woman from America who represents everything the right hates and fears. I dislike all imperialists, especially the tankie and liberal varieties, and will not tolerate people who defend the undefendable from their own team. No identity can make you a good person, so be good to one another <3
actually I think SoleInvictus didnt even see that post which is kinda funny X3 so I made that post saying people had been talking in ur post about making a new comm and mentioned the people that offered to moderate it :3
Yeah, I just saw the big 196 post, thought to myself “fuck that shit, I’ll make a backup comm just in case this goes badly”, and now here we are.
You helped me out with excellent mod suggestions thanks to that other post (which I still need to find, for posterity). I expected this to be a dusty, unused little comm that lost people would aneurysm post in like once or twice a year, so I really needed the help when I was proven very wrong.
really, lol. We did get a lot of us from that post