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Be nice. Assume others have good intent (within reason).

Block or ignore posts, comments, and users that irritate you in some way rather than engaging. Report if they are actually breaking community rules.

Use content warnings and/or mark as NSFW when appropriate. Most posts with content warnings likely need to be marked NSFW.

Most 196 posts are memes, shitposts, cute images, or even just recent things that happened, etc. There is no real theme, but try to avoid posts that are very inflammatory, offensive, very low quality, or very "off topic".

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Moderator Guidelines

Don’t be mean to users. Be gentle or neutral.
Most moderator actions which have a modlog message should include your username.
When in doubt about whether or not a user is problematic, send them a DM.
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Ask another mod to take over cases you struggle with, if you get tired, or when things get personal.
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Looks like we started a community! Now we need feedback and mods. (lemmy.blahaj.zone)

submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by SoleInvictus@lemmy.blahaj.zone to c/onehundredninetysix@lemmy.blahaj.zone

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I'm kinda regretting not naming it oneninesix, but here we are. I guess I love letters.

~~To anyone wondering what's up, I did this on my phone while out in the "big city", so I'm still waiting to get home to do anything serious. I have a few ~~suckers~~ really nice people who volunteered for modding along with me. Anyone else who is interested, drop me a line. I'll be picking mods when I get home in a few hours. Sorry for the wait and I'll do my best to put out any fires in the meantime. I didn't think this would take off!~~

For those wondering, here's my take on moderating the place.

Moderation is to facilitate an experience for its users in line with the goals of the community and the instance. It's not to push a personal agenda, give you a bigger hammer in debates, set up a digital fiefdom, etc. You certainly can and should include your mod experience on your dating profile, though. Unilateral decisions are not cool except in a few situations, like if 100% of your userbase is usurped by literal Nazis.
196 exists to be a place where you post something (often but not always something goofy) when you visit. I know not everyone does and that's fine - I still love you. These things can't be offensive or hurtful, though, especially not intentionally so. Unintentional vs intentional I believe is a HUGE distinction and needs to be considered when moderating.
~~LBJ~~ LBZ exists as an inclusive, (relatively) judgment-free zone for gender-diverse folks. I intend for us to uphold that here. I say relatively judgment free because there will be people looking to start shit and mods and admins are going to have to judge their actions, but only their actions.

If you wanna be my modder, you gotta get with my bullet points...or argue persuasively why I should amend them (but that part doesn't fit the tune).The three big things I'm looking for otherwise are diverse viewpoints, if you can remain reasonably impartial, and if you can say you're sorry. The last is huge for me. As a mod, you're going to mess up. I used to mod on Reddit and I certainly did! I find it's important for maintaining the community's respect to be able to admit when you made a bad call and what you'll do to avoid it in the future.

@ada@lemmy.blahaj.zone, pointers would be welcome as I think you do a great job.

Community feedback is encouraged and welcome, just be aware I'll be a little slow to respond for a bit.

PS: wow, I really DO love letters!

Edit: Corrected point three, damn autocorrect! Believe it or not, we're not an inclusive community in LBJ's corpse.

Update 20/1/25: We're replete with mods for now! Thank you all who reached out. I'll start pulling these stickies as they get irrelevant, I'm just a full disclosure kind of person so I want people to know what is/has been going on.

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[–] JusticeForPorygon@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Lyndon Baines Johnson?

[–] SoleInvictus@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 2 months ago

Oh no... Fixed it! Thanks, I think my keyboard's text correction "helped" me.

[–] TheCoolerMia@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I have a few ~~suckers~~ really nice people who volunteered for modding along with me.

r those the people I mentioned in my post or r there even more?

I didn't think this would take off!

yeh the community has been specially active today to make sure the new 196 grows apparently X3 I knew thatd happen the moment I saw the migration post in the old 196 tho, I love this community :3

[–] SoleInvictus@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 2 months ago

r those the people I mentioned in my post or r there even more?

Yep, yours and more. I'm vetting people that chimed in and am pretty sure my wife thinks I've finally gone mad.

[–] C4RC0S4@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 2 months ago

Yay thank you so much for taking this on!

[–] hungryphrog@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 2 months ago

I think we should use the same picture we used in R*ddit as community icon.

[–] Blaze@feddit.org 2 points 2 months ago

Nice post

[–] Cornflake@pawb.social 1 points 2 months ago

Hell yeah, let's make it happen, folks!

[–] Valmond@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago (4 children)

Subbed!

Is there something to know about the "old" 196?

Sorry I'm out of the loop.

[–] clickyello@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago (2 children)

they migrated to lemmy.world which a lot of people took issue with because the old 196 here on LBZ was one of the biggest non-LW communities (maybe the biggest non-LW community I'm not sure)

[–] Valmond@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Thanks! So That's why the memes on going big and moving to .world, okay!

More questions what is LW in this context?

Thank you!

[–] inv3r5ion@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 months ago (6 children)

LW is short for lemmy.world

A lot of people (myself included) have had bad experiences with world. It’s the biggest server when you join lemmy so not knowing better a lot of normie people join it and they tend to have shitty takes, and those shitty takes are backed up by even shittier mods and admins. I ended up getting banned from world on my original account for not being a democrat simp (specifically - bought out by the insurance industry owned democrat senator joe Lieberman of insurance industry owned Connecticut single-handedly tanked the single payer option of Obamacare when it was being passed.) They allow fascists to comment and ban people who hold them accountable. And god forbid you shit talk the democrats from the left…

The original blahaj 196 was a queer space run off a queer server… moving it to world is just going to invite harassment against much of the queer community. World is not friendly to queer people. They do not understand how lived experience as a marginalized person makes one not play nice with fascists, and like typical liberals they hold being polite, respectful and agreeable above all. Well I’m not polite, respectful or agreeable to people who would want me dead.

[–] Valmond@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

Thank you and yes I wondered what was happening, 196 & blahaj was good together I thought. I have an account on world mostly because my own server lemmy.mindoki.com had problems and now I have all notes on the fachos & tankies & other idiots there but I should probably use my valmond@lemmy.mindoki instead. Or loulou@lemmy.mindoki.com which is my queer and art and admin person. I'm not very good at all this.

Thanks for the info and yes fuck all the fachos and terfs and other violent people ot there!

The world could have been a so much better place without them.

💖💖💖

[–] sigmaklimgrindset@sopuli.xyz 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Thank you for the lore, I was so confused as to why I couldn't comment on 196@LBZ, and why there was now 196@LW and a onehundredninetysix@LBZ.

I keep saying we need our version of r/subredditdrama 😭😭

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[–] TheCoolerMia@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Lemmy.World, and LBZ is Lemmy.Blahaj.Zone :3

[–] Valmond@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

Oh yes of course, I'm an idiot 😅 thank you!

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[–] militaryintelligence@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

I'll mod a few things. If interested send me a message

[–] Darorad@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

I would be happy to help mod, I modded some stuff on the old site.

Regardless, here's what I'd like to see out of the moderation here:

I fully agree with your points on moderation, but I think it's important to add to #1 that no major decisions should be made by the mods, even if all of them are in agreement. They should be discussed with the community.
Semi-regular "ask the mods" post (or just one that's stickied). Basically if anyone disagrees with or has questions about a mod action, they can comment there and the mods pledge to answer any question.

[–] pewgar_seemsimandroid@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 2 months ago

you can read my reply to a comment and the comment itself, everything you need to know (also i own !uselessserver093@lemmy.blahaj.zone

[–] erotador@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 2 months ago

if i have any feedback then i would say that we need some proper rules in place, yeah we can just default to the instance rules but i think having some solid set of rules for moderators and users alike to follow would be a good idea. if you need help modding im interested.

[–] fxomt@lemm.ee 1 points 2 months ago

Hello, i wouldn't mind modding 196 along with you all. However i am not trans, so i may not be the best choice.

In any way, thanks for creating this and good luck with it 🤠

[–] sylveon@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 2 months ago

I'm willing to help with moderation if needed

[–] OpenStars@startrek.website 0 points 2 months ago

Can a rule be "fuck spez"?

Oh wait, we don't need something so obvious.:-)

[–] dragonfucker@lemmy.nz -2 points 2 months ago

Hello, drag will volunteer. Drag can confidently say drag is a very diverse voice, and isn't worried about policing other people for any personal agenda. Drag didn't like c/196 because the mods there thought they should ban people for advocating violence against Nazis. Drag would like to help build a community where those left wing viewpoints are more accepted. And don't worry, drag has no desire to silence conflicting viewpoints. Just to create a space where everyone can shitpost safely. Drag can say sorry, too.

Drag is going to post a meme to the community now.

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