Lemmy Moderators

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I got a report that I'd like to discuss with the other mods. Is there a way to message them all at once? Like a chat for the handful of us to discuss it? If so, where is it?

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I’d like to be able to quickly purge spammers & nazi-racist types. How can I see all comments by my instance’s users in chronological order?

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Several users and I have noticed an increase in antagonism and generally unhelpful behaviors with comments and votes in [email protected]. Discussing it with the community users, they suggested that there might be trolls or bots that have been upset with the community. We would like to point out that we recently made a post stating that the mods will enforce the age restriction on the site should anyone identify themselves as below 18 years old.

We were wondering if there are any tools that we can use to analyze votes and account interactions in the community. Any ideas?

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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 
 

Moderating a community on another server and having several problems: I pin a post for rules clarification and within a day the pin gets removed and the post starts sinking. Worse, the post still shows pinned in my instance so it looks like everything is okay. Attempts to work around this by promoting another account ON that community's server don't go through.

Is there a way to make a pin permanent and visible across all instances?

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I'd like to leave the mod team, and despite a month of low-key poking around I don't see how that's done.

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Hello,

We, the mods of [email protected], are writing because we have alerted the users of our community that we will report their accounts should they explicitly identify that they are under 18 years old in a comment or post shown on Lemmy World to enforce the Lemmy World Terms of Service (ToS). In said post, several users have brought up arguments and hypothetical situations that we would like discussed by the Lemmy World admin team and other mods to get clear guidance on expectations of our moderating actions and help clarify the concerns of the users in our community.

Basically, the main argument we see is concerning the federated organization of Lemmy and the Fediverse in general. The ToS state that:

4.0.2: You are at least 18 years of age and over the regulated minimum age defined by your local law to access Lemmy.World.

4.1: No one under 18 years of age is allowed to use or access the website.

That clearly states that anyone under 18 years of age cannot access any of the site. However, users are arguing that if a user that is registered on another instance is under 18 years old and posts in a community or comments on a post that is originally from Lemmy World, that user is technically not accessing the site directly. Instead, they are interacting with their instance, and that instance interacts with Lemmy World through the Fediverse protocol. That user did not directly interact or access Lemmy World. The information from Lemmy World was forwarded to them, and the information they shared was forwarded to Lemmy World. This brings up some nuances with expectations for moderating in Lemmy World in general.

  • Are mods expected to report or ban a user of another instance that explicitly identifies themselves as under 18 years old through a post or comment that is federated into the community that we moderate?

Another situation that will likely arise is that of a user of another instance making a post on their instance.

  • If their post is cross-posted to a community we moderate on Lemmy World, are we to delete the cross-post?

  • Who would be in violation of the ToS because of the cross-post: the original poster or the cross-poster?

Yet another situation that could easily arise revolves around a Lemmy World user engaging with other websites or internet services.

  • Suppose someone on another website or service strikes a similarity to a user of the actual Lemmy World instance and identifies as under 18 years old, are mods expected to investigate and enforce the policy of reporting and/or banning the user from Lemmy World based on a judgment call?

We want to be clear that the purpose of our post is to clarify the expectations that the Lemmy World admin team has of its mods so that we can conscientiously and dependably comply with the policies that are set to help manage the instance.

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Hello everyone,

I am one of the moderators of [email protected]. We use a bot relying on https://schedule.lemmings.world/ to create a post every day automatically.

I know that some users block bots because they consider them annoying, be it repost posts or features bots such as tldr or piped. Having the bot labelled as such prevents the daily threads from being viewed by users who might be interested.

I had that reasoning in the past, but had the bot banned for not complying with the instance guidelines.

I thus open this thread to see what could be done to solve this issue. Could there be exceptions to the bot labelling guidelines in this kind of cases?

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wished I'd found these sooner. Thanks to whoever wrote them. Should be more links to them. need updates which can be submitted: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-docs

from the top: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-docs

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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 
 

cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/8365829

Question: What moderation tools do you find most useful?

Follow up question: Are there any moderation tools you wish existed but don't?

My wish would be some form of content editable by multiple accounts, useful for megathreads or community wikis.

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Hiya!

Let me know if this is the wrong place to ask this 😄

  1. If I find another post here in Fediverse/Lemmy where I want to comment in the same way I did in some other Fediverse/Lemmy post, am I encouraged to do so?
  2. Is it encouraged to copy posts from Reddit and pasting them in Fediverse/Lemmy? (original content would be linked in the new post)
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Hello!!! I appear to be community banned by mistake. Could someone share the secret to contacting a mod?

Many thanks!!!

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submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 
 

Hello all!

We are looking for new moderators on the communities below. These communities belong to an inactive user. Would you like to help moderate and possibly contribute content yourself? Please send me a DM with the desired community.

[email protected]

[email protected]

[email protected]

[email protected]

[email protected]

[email protected]

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Currently in need of mods for !casualconversation to moderate and create content. If interested let us know!

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I've got a post in my community that was posted by mistake. This one:

https://lemmy.world/post/4989402

It was actually me that posted it from my Mastodon account.

I can't see a way to delete or hide it from the community.

The kebab menu only has the following items:

  • Create report
  • Block user
  • Lock
  • Community pin

I've tried reporting the post and it appears on the report page, but I don't seem to be able to do anything with it other than clicking "resolve report".

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submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 
 

Hi folks 👋

Is it possible to take over a community that was created by a now absent owner?

This is the community:

[email protected]

I've messaged the mod @[email protected] a few times but I don't get a response. I also created a post in the hopes they would notice, but I think they've abandoned the community - their last activity was 3 months ago.

I'd like to develop this community further, but I'm stuck without being able to become a mod myself.

Any ideas?

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That's the visible text of a comment, from someone whose other comments are visible to me.

Never seen this before, and as mod, I'm uncomfortable leaving someone's comment online when I can't see it.

Thx

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Sorry for the old-school terminology and mis-terms in this message as I have not had a problem like this since my dumb-terminal days (I'm guessing that long)

How does one add the proper carriage returns to a post?

I have these three lines, with a new line on each but formats as one paragraph: This is line 1. This is line 2. This is line 3.

The only way I can separate these lines is using an extra carriage return between each line which looks horrible.

This is line 1.

This is line 2.

This is line 3.

How do I get the above lines to show up without that extra new line between each?

Thanks!

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Hi, I would like to add another user as a moderator in a community I currently moderate - is there a menu or tool for this? Please help.

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I am interested in taking a consensus amongst the community on certain actions or rules to implement. Is there a way to post a poll?

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I have a friend who would like to hide their existing lemmy posts for a certain period of time and make them available at a later date. Can anyone advise if this is possible or if a moderator can do that?

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I run a community for a sports league ([email protected]) where members can be a fan of one of twelve (soon to be 14!) teams. Oftentimes, communities will allow users to select a "flair" -- a small image that appears next to their username -- that displays their team affiliation. Mostly, this is accomplished with some custom style sheet, the css ::after psuedo-selector and Unicode reserved-range characters, but I'm not picky about how this is implemented.

My question is: do Lemmy communities support flaring in any way? Can I add a custom style sheet to my community at all?

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Hello Lemmy moderators!

The Lemmy.World administrator team is planning to release a Moderator Code of Conduct for Lemmy soon.

Even though there will be some basic principles we will follow, which can be found here, we still need your valuable input. We'd like to hear your suggestions on what to add to this Code of Conduct, as you know best about what you want and need.

This Code of Conduct would lay out the official rules, set principles and goals for Lemmy.World moderators, and for any other instance that wishes to follow it.

With Love,
The Lemmy.World Administrator (Team)

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Is this a good neutral place to spotlight poor moderation?

For example, my post to [email protected] asked what is a decent client for Debian was removed (per rule #3). While at the same time this “What's the best Android/iPhone app for Lemmy?” is not only not removed, it was actually started by the moderator themself, and stickied. So this is a case of a moderator /above the law/ breaking their own rules which they selectively enforce.

In principle there should be a record of this sort of conduct so users know which moderators to avoid (thus which communities to avoid).

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Hi moderator team(s),

This is a link to the backgrounds, graphics and otherwise that I've help make for the Lemmy.world squad. Hopefully, this can be somewhat helpful in your work in your communities.

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Well yes it is! But that's why it is important to look at it... All us moderators and community owner have responsibility towards the server. This is our server. I think it'll be more flourishing for the community if we enforce this perspective in the server/instance.

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