Hi all, we have a new mod joining the team.
@FatalChessInjury@lemmy.fmhy.ml has been appointed as a mod of !newzealand, and will be starting to look at fleshing out the details of the community.
I know you’ll make them feel welcome :)
Ah yep, I see where this is going now after his post the other day. No thanks, I’ll join another NZ community that isn’t going to ignore bigotry in service of “free speech” 👋
Yeah, I’m in the same boat. I’m looking for “people from reddit”, not “people who got banned from reddit”. Where are you headed?
They are a mod because they applied. You did not.
Please feel free to apply for a mod position. We need all sorts of views on the team, and I’ve received very few applications. Be the change you want to see.
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First come first serve is a poor method of picking moderators
Great theory, but we have existed not much longer than a week. We don’t have another method.
It’s not like this instance is big enough to desperately need many mods right now.
We absolutely need more coverage. Another instance had CSAM posted and this federated out to other instances, they didn’t have a mod online and so other instances were left having to deal with it. One person cannot provide the cover we need. In fact I’m considering closing registrations each night since I didn’t get much interest from my request for help.
And I mean, picking the freeze peach mod implies some endorsement of his beliefs on your part.
I did not get a “freeze peach” vibe from the post. Maybe I’m naive, but I got a “we’re all adults here, we don’t need to be petty” vibe. Whether it works in practice or not is another story, but it felt good intentioned.
That you didn’t get a free speech absolutist vibe from their post is why people are concerned about you.
Communities are driven first by the people that join them, then who sticks around. In a setup like this, where anyone can drive by comment from any old instance, you’re going to need to ban abusive people or the good users will leave. /r/newzealand had a solid set of rules and for the most part they were consistently applied.
https://god.dailydot.com/bartender-kicks-out-tweets someone linked the nazi bar story the other day, Twitter is fucked for me atm so I can’t link the original. Either way, if you don’t kick out the shitheads straight away then they become your userbase, and the kicking out has to come from the mods in Lemmy. Downvotes don’t do anything here.
Hi all! I hope to serve this little community to the best of my abilities and help keep it an amazing place. At least once I figure out all the moderation tools.
Any chance you could state your views on “free speech” vs fostering civilised discourse?
Will you let bigoted, hateful, or nasty comments slide, if that means all views are being presented?
I’m not coming to this with any pre-formed opinions btw, I’m just wanting to see something stated clearly about how you intend to moderate, given the comments below :-)
Personally speaking, I’m not looking to hang out with people who got banned from other social media for spreading misinformation and hate. If this community is going to be a place where people like that are welcome, I will frankly feel unwelcome and would rather get out now.
I’m of the view that Reddit is currently hurtling itself towards becoming a far-right cesspool, and their recent changes will only exacerbate that. I’m trying to get away from that, I don’t want to be part of another community that will do the same thing.