Hello world,
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 and keep in mind that the 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, which already has several comments discussing the current state of this community.

  • Admiral Patrick@dubvee.org
    12·
    4 months ago

    I’d be willing. I’m already modding the community locally on my instance, so might as well throw my hat in. I would need to make a LW account for the purpose, but that’s not an obstacle. The Lemmy client I use allows multiple profiles on different instances and supports mod tooling, so it would be easy to check in.

    If you’re considering me, then let me know, and I’ll create an account and provide the username. Also feel free to review my profile so you know I’m not a crackpot 😆 The only alts I have are @admin@dubvee.org (used only for automod scripts) and @admiralpatrick@discuss.online that I used to test Tesseract against an early 0.19.x adopter.

    We also ask that you provide a short description of how you want to see the community in the future

    Well, I think the rules are pretty solid as-is, though I would suggest two additions / clarifications:

    • Submissions should be unpopular opinions in general, not merely unpopular among Lemmy users.
    • You should provide a justification / rationale along with your submission
  • spujb@lemmy.cafe
    11·
    4 months ago

    THANK YOU good heavens.

    edit: also please remove the two recent literal nazi troll posts that snuck in right before you locked the place 😭

  • 𝒍𝒆𝒎𝒂𝒏𝒏@lemmy.dbzer0.com
    9·
    4 months ago

    I’m willing to volunteer as a moderator in this community, using my existing lemmy.world account lemann@lemmy.world. Currently ~CET based

    Primarily I’ll be enforcing the current rules in the sidebar, with the intention of the community returning to a home for unpopular opinions, rather than troll or “bait” posts with the sole intent of upsetting others…

    First thing I’d want to do is a meta poll what others’ view an “unpopular opinion” as. Mine would be something along the lines of “an opinion that is generally accepted in western cultures, but may not necessarily held by a majority”, however it would be ideal to get more perspectives and a general discussion going on that, as this would shape moderation moving forward.

    Only rule change I’d consider presently would be the discretionary removal of controversial posts focused on sensitive geopolitical issues or political figures - with community interactions on instances of these posts being the basis

  • JonsJava@lemmy.world
    6·
    4 months ago

    I’d be willing to moderate. I am currently a moderator of !news@lemmy.world, as well as 2 other smaller communities.

    I’d like to see this community work as intended. Unpopular opinions that are valid are liked more, while common/popular opinions aren’t. This will hopefully generate more discourse. Rules would mostly stay the same, with the expansion of rule 1 to include rule 1 that we have in !news@lemmy.world, as well as adding “no self-promotion” to rule 3.

    • Rooki@lemmy.worldOPM
      7·
      4 months ago

      Hi,

      thanks for your points, if you think a ban of yours or your friends was unjustified, please tell him to make a unbann request, because if someone just isnt making the effort of making a unban request, then we dont see any regret, or not even a try to tell us that we were wrong.

      If it was a community ban you are talking about, then talk to the mods.

      If you are just angry because you got site banned ( because your account is just 3 days old and is immediatly got into a fight in the news community ), this is just the way of getting another one.

      I would even say, some of your comments there are remove worthy, but we let the moderators choose if they want the message gone or not.

      We are only here for urgent or illegal stuff. And that there is always a community moderated

            • JonsJava@lemmy.world
              4·
              4 months ago

              !news@lemmy.world rule 1 is as follows:

              Be civil: Attack the argument, not the person. No racism/sexism/bigotry. Good faith argumentation only. Trolling is uncivil and is grounds for removal and/or a community ban.

              I’m the one that banned you, after numerous complaints about a large amount of your comments were in violation of this rule for multiple reasons.

            • spujb@lemmy.cafe
              3·
              4 months ago

              self-reporting that you neither know nor care about the lemmy.world TOS. charming.

              1. Attacks on groups Before using the website, remember you will be interacting with actual, real people and communities. Lemmy.World is not a place for you to attack other groups of people. Every one of our users has a right to browse and interact with the website and all of its contents free of treatment such as harassment, discrimination, transphobia, racism of any kind, bullying, violation of privacy or threats of violence.
  • Mindhunter@lemmy.today
    422·
    4 months ago

    Maybe learn to talk like you are the ones who need help ? Modding is not a holy position its a thankless job, you are not doing them a favor by making them a mod they are doing you a favor. So atleast be polite and not act like your giving a job offer or something . Also i am not talking about rookie i personnely think he is a good guy/gal i was just talking about the mod culture in general the mod needed posts all come like this and i think mods are treated more shitty then they are on reddit . I don’t know why people still mod especially on lemmy were they are near slaves to admins imagine using your time for that.

    PS: (not a mod and never want to be unless its something i think is i really really wanna support)

    • Rooki@lemmy.worldOPM
      131·
      4 months ago

      Ok, here is your Lemmy Silver for your good effort on your thankless job Lemmy Silver

      Note: We try to help every Moderator, if he just comes up to us and asks. We try to communicate a lot with mods and users. But we are not perfect. And we just wanted to be this time more… to the point and letting everyone know, as a mod you still need to follow LW’s TOS and Mod Guideline. As we got some… not good moderators for the some of our last “Looking for moderators” post in a another community.

      • Mindhunter@lemmy.today
        121·
        4 months ago

        No need to pay me silver as i have said i don’t mod never have modded and probably never will . This culture is worse than ceo’s and janitors maybe respect your mods better ?

    • Thekingoflorda@lemmy.worldM
      10·
      4 months ago

      What’s wrong with this post? Asking for some details about someone that wants to mod one of the bigger communities is a good idea, right?