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Hello World,

Due to our pace of growth, our platform ended up with thousands of communities created by you, our dear users. While we are still appreciative of every community effort, we decided we need to be able to better assist and publicize them. To assist with this effort, we now have two community team positions available:

  • The Community Engagement Team: This team will work with community moderators and find ways to increase their engagement, provide them with easy access to logo and banner options, and communicate with you better to assure transparency as needed. Team capacity: 6 new members expected
  • The Community Management Team: This team will be responsible of making sure communities have active moderators, assuring compliance in Lemmy.World communities, and keeping track of community moderation logs in order to assure they are moderated in good health. Team capacity: 6 new members expected

Both of these teams will be working closely with the admin team, and are expected to become ways for our users to have enhanced control of their instance. Let's build something great together!

How to apply

All applications must include the following information:

  • Your Lemmy.World registered username, and your reason to apply
  • The position you are interested in
  • Your time zone, and average availability level

All applications may be sent to @clueless_stoner@lemmy.world or @antik@lemmy.world, or e-mailed to info@lemmy.world

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[โ€“] dustyData@lemmy.world 119 points 1 year ago (7 children)

Can we make it a site wide policy to NOT have supermods?

I've already identified a couple of users who are accumulating mod positions like MTG cards, and some are the most toxic and intentionally astringent users who are constantly involved in all the drama.

[โ€“] clueless_stoner@lemmy.world 40 points 1 year ago (2 children)

This will be addressed soon.

[โ€“] GladiusB@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Yea. I got banned from a community and zero clue why and when. I have a feeling it's one of these.

[โ€“] jordanlund@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

Looking at the modlog, it was News for repeated rude comments. Good news! It's only 2 more days!

Rule 1 in News is "1. Be civil". You were marked as multiple rule 1 violations and had multiple comments removed.

So you'll be off the 3 day ban soon, keep it clean and you'll be fine.

[โ€“] clueless_stoner@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago (21 children)

Oh that is interesting. Have you tried searching for yourself in the modlog?

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[โ€“] RGB3x3@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If I might make a suggestion: let them choose their X most important communities to them that they want to mod (X being whatever number of comms you think is appropriate), then remove them from any others. If they don't choose, they don't get any.

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[โ€“] Krudler@lemmy.world 33 points 1 year ago (3 children)

After modding for over 15 years at the other place, it has strongly solidified my opinion that the only people that want to be mods are broken people that love the surge of power they get from being a water-cooler dictator. Modding should be a job nobody actively wants, and when they do it they do it with reservations, reluctance and a tinge of resentment.

100% agreed. A bad mod is a dictator trying to rule over others. A good mod is more a janitor, someone who works in the background to keep the place clean for others to enjoy, and doesn't expect to be worshipped.

I have two discord servers I own. Modding them is...well, awful.

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[โ€“] LackingC10H12N2O@lemmy.world 19 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

100%

This was the downfall of reddit for me, and I fear that it's playing out again here ๐Ÿ˜

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[โ€“] nelsonslament@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

How would you deal with one person with multiple accounts? I don't know how youd deal with the round about way of being a supermod

[โ€“] ShitOnABrick@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

I agree with this opinion. at least put more well respected people of the @lemmy.world community in charge could have a vote on it as well that way everyone has a say in the final outcome

[โ€“] SeethingSloth@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

Can't second this enough

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[โ€“] Num10ck@lemmy.world 73 points 1 year ago (2 children)

you should clarify if these are volunteer positions or paid, and what level of hours/commitment are expected as such.

[โ€“] lwadmin@lemmy.world 139 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is a volunteer platform, and as such no one is paid. Applicants may include their availability info and be considered accordingly.

[โ€“] clueless_stoner@lemmy.world 24 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[โ€“] lwadmin@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[โ€“] obinice@lemmy.world 18 points 1 year ago

I thought we had something special together, but now I catch you with a clueless stoner

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[โ€“] SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

You think people are paid to do this?

[โ€“] Number1SummerJam@lemmy.world 33 points 1 year ago (1 children)

How many hours a week would you expect a member to contribute?

[โ€“] clueless_stoner@lemmy.world 50 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I would say a minimum of 10 hours/week is pretty fair. As it is a volunteer position, we would still be very understanding if you can't always make the time.

[โ€“] canthidium@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago
[โ€“] otter@lemmy.ca 31 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

If someone's primary account is on another instance, can they still help out?

ex. I have a lemmy.world account for cross instance moderation, but I don't really have to use most of the time

[โ€“] antik@lemmy.world 40 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Since it's more focused on Lemmy World communities it would make sense to have some affinity with the instance so a local account would be preferred.

[โ€“] otter@lemmy.ca 17 points 1 year ago

Makes sense :)

[โ€“] ShitOnABrick@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Ages ago on reddit I got banned from r/justiceserved for merely commenting on r/conservative this was on a post about tianmemen square they had a autobot set up which'll automatically check wherever someone subscribes comments or posts prehaps it'll be worth considering maybe trying do moderation differently on lemmy to reddit is

[โ€“] clueless_stoner@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago

Yeah it happens, I remember getting banned from r/offmychest for making a comment in /watchredditdie. Lots of live examples from Reddit on what not to do.

Same here. I got banned from leaving a comment questioning an antivax subreddit that another subreddit used an autoban bot to monitor. There was no attempt to take context into consideration. This type of moderation behavior should be unacceptable.

[โ€“] clueless_stoner@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (5 children)

One minor update here: I also need someone who enjoys writing and has some free time. This would be direct assistance and working together, rather thN a named and famed team. ๐Ÿ™‚

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[โ€“] DandomRude@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's a smart move ๐Ÿ‘

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[โ€“] Yoz@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago
[โ€“] m3t00@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I usually tell reporters to down-vote and scroll. Not clear how downvote effects lists but I only remove obvious spam or off topic. Created a few communities when this place was a ghost-town and 2 days later the reddit hordes arrived. smh. No way I'm screening every post now. up/down votes should count for something. Currently if someone reports a post, I check up/down votes to see what community thinks. Maybe give an option to sort by up votes. Or maybe there is already a way. Volunteer mods only have to ask and have a profile history. I'm old and don't need this shit.

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