RookiMar 15, 2024

Looking for new moderators - community locked for now

https://lemmy.world/post/13140092

Looking for new moderators - community locked for now - Lemmy.World

Hello everyone, due to the large volume of recent troll posts and comments, as well as the absence of community moderators, we have decided to lock down this community until we have found some new moderators. If you wish to apply as a moderator, you’ll need to have an actively used Lemmy account, and you will need to use a Lemmy.World account for moderation, as you will otherwise not reliably receive reports in the community. If you’d like to help with moderation, but you don’t currently have a Lemmy.World account, you’re welcome to apply anyway, as long as you’re willing to create a Lemmy.World account to take care of moderation and reviewing reports if we decide to select you as moderator. We also ask that you provide a short description of how you want to see the community in the future. This does not have to be in detail, but it’d still be great if you could describe e.g. rule changes you’d be looking at. Please also take a look at our Community Moderation Guidelines [https://lemmy.world/post/424735] and keep in mind that the Lemmy.World ToS [https://legal.lemmy.world/tos/] apply to this community. You can apply by using one of the following options: - leave a comment here saying that you’d be willing to moderate - send us an email to info @ our instance domain - send me a pm on Lemmy with your application If you’re not looking to apply as a moderator for this community, you might still be able to help shape this community by describing how you would imagine this community in the future. You can also take a look at https://lemmy.world/post/12568610 [https://lemmy.world/post/12568610], which already has several comments discussing the current state of this community.

Show threadMechaJutaroMar 15, 2024

Sorry to read there has been trouble on this particular forum. My 5 cents:

You aren’t likely to keep moderators around, as long as we insist on emulating the sort of nonsense that’s been running rampant on university campuses for an unforgivably long time/ was lampooned in the first scene of “American Fiction”… That is to say, taking increasingly elastic definitions of “trolling”, and capitulating to the frivolous grievances of real-life equivalents to Titania McGrath

Be very specific and explicit about what content is forbidden, with instructions such as “No posting links to kiddie porn or footage of ISIS beheadings. No threatening anyone to go to someone else’s house and dismember them with a chainsaw”, instead of hiding behind deliberately vague euphemisms and weasel phrases, such as “No targeting marginalized populations for hate”

Also, issue a public statement such as “Those who are among the 13% of America who revel in being offended, and expect the rest of us mere mortals to keep our speech G-rated are well advised to go watch The Disney Channel, rather than visiting lemmy. We’re a forum for aspiring adults who are enthusiasts for inquiry and the robust exchange of ideas”

Show threadspujb
found the account that wants to target marginalized populations with hate
Mar 15, 2024 at 2:50pmWeb
Show threadMechaJutaroMar 15, 2024
“Marginalized populations” can mean anything, or nothing. It’s less less than useful as a guideline, especially when compared to more specific instructions such as “Resist the urge to refer to your fellow board members here at lemmy with slurs. If you disagree with a thought or belief they’ve expressed, quote them, then say why you disagree with them”