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If y’all make this an active community, it looks like the existing moderator is inactive, so to folks here: You should consider volunteering to moderate if the need arises.

I’m gonna keep an eye out on this community to see if you all make it a thing, and if you do, I’ll see if the current mod is active (but they haven’t said anything in a few years - this is a common issue on lemmy and we’re used to fixing it).

Just wanted to stop in and say hello - and hope to see another community take off again. I’ve seen several like this - someone makes a thread, people pop up and start contributing. It’s a beautiful thing to watch. :) And I’m here to support y’all if it happens.

Tip of the day: When an admin of an instance adivses you not to break the Terms of Service… consider refraining from doing so.

Good-bye.

Do not use ableist slurs on Lemmy.World.

Lemmy design choice, not .world :)

Yep, lemmy dev wheelhouse not mine, and I will say that one of the nice things about being an admin is that I can see deleted items - for a while until they’re permanently deleted. heh.

Design philosophy… I find it irritating that the comments I delete are still out there at all, so I’ve gotten in the habit of editing then deleting them.

The flip side - if we’re comparing Lemmy to Reddit though - is that scoring you see is not fudged, and you can see your votes happen in real time. If there’s a delay in applying the vote, the spinny stays until it happens. With reddit, I’d refresh to make sure my upvote stuck because a lot of times it didn’t, just silently fail, and that was irritating.

So it just comes down to different devs making different choices, I suppose.

Just to confirm, deleted by the creator. (excessive blurring just as a habit since the author chose to delete it)

You main acount had a tempban. That just got escalated to a permanent ban. Nice.

Got it done just now, thanks for your patience!

I’ll get that done here in a bit :)

It’s not a problem if it’s an occasional thing, and it looks to me like it’s just an occasional thing. :)

Nicely done.

You got me completely. I’ve been banning spammers all day (I’m working on some mod tools that help identify some that fell through the cracks and should help us respond to reports better going forward), so my first reading was “Spammer?” lol.

Thank you for a very much needed laugh!

Please note that I am not here to play games. Have your fun, but if no suitable moderator is found, I may shut the community down. I suggest you take the thread seriously if you care about this community.

I’m quite fine with humour and jokes elsewhere, but please not here.

You… do realize I’m an admin, right?

I see you hadn’t modded this account so I went ahead and did :) Thanks again for volunteering! :)

I’m happy to grant your request, though I have a strong request of my own: Mod notifications seem not to work across instances, so if you would please consider creating a lemmy.world account and modding that account in addition, then logging in occasionally to check for reports pretty please, it’s probably better that way. :)

Thank you for volunteering!

Well, okay, you can make up whatever you want to believe, I guess.

Lemmy world is probably owned by a corporation.

No. It is owned by a nonprofit set up for the purpose. The person that started it brought on a few volunteers (like me) to help out. We depend on donations, and receive some recurring and one-off donations. Every few months or so, we post a short request for more donations as the donations dip below the monthly costs, and that seems to keep us going.

I’m not sure exactly what you mean by “curates” / “shadowbans”, so I won’t directly comment on that. But a large part of the reason I was brought on was to have another person looking out for spam and such.

We don’t generally hand mod to new accounts, but nothing stops you from posting in there and helping revitalize things. Poke me in like 2-3 months and I’m absolutely glad to reconsider. Thank you for volunteering - and hopefully I can do this for you later. :)

I can respect that opinion, and I will say… I have a number of people blocked. It’s easy to do.

Speaking only for us here on Lemmy.World, we try to ban people who break the Lemmy.World ToS, which include issues like bigotry, incivility, spam, things like that. Not necessarily opinions with which we might disagree or find unpleasant. I think if I allowed myself to ban anyone with whom I disagreed, I would find myself quickly de-adminned, and rightfully so - it would kill the fedverse.

There are other tools for dealing with, well, tools. Including blocking on a personal level, or having community rules in place that make sense for that community that can help create spaces that are more comfortable to be in.

So while I agree with your sentiment, understanding the roles of the instance admins vs community moderators or individual choices - that’s why I set up a monthly donation before I became an admin. Because Lemmy provides me with good content and communities.

Everyone is absolutely free to make their own choices. And this reply is not an attempt to beg you to donate.