Kia ora!
What’s the plans for moderation on this instance? I guess there’s probably going to be a bit of a flood from the NZ-oriented subreddits and this seems like a smart landing place for them.
Lemmy.ml apparently has owners with weird political beliefs, and this is putting a bunch of people off. Is there going to be a set of rules/CoC for this instance?
Also, servers cost money. Any plans for adding a way for users to support the server?
Thanks for setting it up!
I sort of passively mod on a few telegram groups (by owner request I never applied)
Just deleting shit that’s offensive or blatant spam.
Not wading in to conversations and throwing my opinion around.
There’s probably plenty showing up with experience, not necessarily reddit experience.
A good first step might just to have coverage yo delete stuff that needs deleting - with a very lax approach until a bit of a culture is embedded that sets the vibe of the place.
Yeah I think that’s a smart approach. Have some people that can remove obvious stuff. When we start to feel further action is needed, we can start to assemble a group to help with grey areas. I think when I get a chance I’ll create a post for expressions of interest to help, both for site-wide and community specific.
Don’t be afraid to invite people if based upon their observed behaviour you think they’ll be a good fit.
In my mind it sort of falls in the camp of if you want the job then that’s a potential sign you’re not best suited!
Totally! But it’s hard to judge in such a new community.
I think I’ll make a post explaining the approach I want to take, and ask for people willing to do this. Plus people willing to do basic cleansing of obvious stuff. Then make a list, start with a hand-selected subset, and make changes over time as needed.
I suspect the approach to address unfriendly content with discussion will probably put off a lot of power-hungry people :)