Hey all, this community has grown a lot lately, so moderating it has become quite time consuming. As I’m studying and also working a side job helping hands would be very welcome. I guess we should also have a discussion about Rules so that Mod Decisions aren’t looking arbitrary. So let’s have a discussion about the rules we want in this community, and if we are done with this, we will look for new Moderators. (Suggestions about a good process for this are also welcome)
With best regards
Albert180
I wouldn’t reinvent the wheel and borrow r/Europe rules as a starting point.
Maybe do a little bit more proactive moderation to that community. r/Europe threads could sometimes go off the rails and had cleanup many hours later - I think it’s OK to lock down before that happens (is locking posts a thing on Lemmy?).
Another approach is to keep rules simple and do a complete philosophy and rule walkthrough separately. I penned this monstrosity for polish subreddit back in the day (linking to archived version since I left since then and it got some meh updates in the meantime).
Yet another approach is to have a philosophy page like Tildes does. It’s clear enough that you disallow assholery and bigotry but community like this definitely needs submission rules on top anyway.
Thank you for your input. Yes I think I will take some of them, but I’m also a fan of @Blaubarschmann@feddit.de 's approach to start with a basic ruleset and expand them as necessary.
Those were pretty good. Though sometimes a bit too strict. What I missed were proper (documented) discussions or maybe ideas. Because all articles needed to be :new news" So maybe like a discussion tag?
Don’t know whether ppl would like it though…? Not talking about the polls" spam though, those were too much. One every month is maybe ok.
So far, the atmosphere has been pretty good here. Good job on that.
Posts can be locked.
Do you need a mod bot? I happen to have one: https://github.com/Dakkaron/SquareModBot
If you want additional features I’m happy to add them.
Thank you very much, I will look into it :)
Interesting!
Thank you for your work! I also think the r/europe subreddit worked quite well mostly, at least from my experience, but how much that was due to moderation, i don’t know. Maybe we could start with just some basic rules and allow some more vivid discussions and a variety of posts while the amount of posts and comments is still relatively low, and add more strict rules as time shows are necessary? Basic rules could be: no racism, no sexism and other discrimination, no violence, hate speech and offensive language, topics must be europe related, no advertising, things like that
Thank you for the input :)
I think this Community works really good. No Racism, No Fascism, Nice discussions, the User are mostly respectfull (I don’t know how many User are getting banned)
What I Like about this Community are that every European writes News about Europe and his state. But I think some Posts from the Mods would Help to make this Community even greater. More discussion rounds about big and new themes of Europe. Maybe some Posts to Events of different cultures in Europe, where we (the User) could tell about our cultures. I think it would make the European Community better to Talk sometimes a little bit, only for fun.
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Sorry for my english (:
I support copying r/europe’s rules, maybe removing some disallowed submitions, like 1b, 1c, 4, 8b for Fediverse posts, 8c, 9 and 14 for european-related petitions. I also believe that the submission guidelines aren’t needed with the traffic level of this community.
As for the process for new moderators, here’s a post from r/europe from when they did it. Also, I volunteer to be moderator.
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I wholly disagree with copying r/europe. It is a festival of bad moderation.
I don’t know if you have noticed, but the only people left there are Turks , some stray greeks and new accounts that haven’t been banned yet. The moderators of r/europe are old, they have an extreme pro-EU bias that makes the discussion counterproductive. They use moderators from south america, which leads to frequent misunderstandings because they don’t know e.g. which are reputable news sources in europe.
Please make some simple, sane rules. Remember that europe is the cradle of liberalism. This should be about europe, and not a generic place to discuss internationalism as r/europe is. In europe, there are many voices and many agendas but they all deserve to be debated. R/europe does not to that, they explicitly remove people for having an agenda that is different from the german-left line set by the core moderators. The stupid meme with the pictures must stop, this is not instagram and europe is not a resort, there are more serious issues to discuss.
I would much rather prefer strict rules guidelines about style, length of posts, no memes etc , but not restricting users to one agenda
Everything has to be pro Europe and not violate laws.
