The mods of procycling are all absent - and the community is suffering for it.

The only moderator has been permanently banned so I’d like to take it over please.

A couple of months ago I wrote a single comment under a post about a hateful rage upon israel in c/news, literally I wrote “What could Hamas do to end the violence?”

Nothing else.

And I got immediately banned.

The moderators refuse to answer my messages.

Not even that, they even banned a buddy who spoke up in my defence per message - not per c/news but really just a personal message to be sure.

In 15 years of Reddit my posts got deleted a lot - but NEVER my comments and I got NEVER banned for anything.

If this is what Lemmy wants to be, then be it but without me.

Do you think this is what Lemmy needs to be?

@jordanlund@lemmy.world is banning people on lemmy.world's largest communities for saying that Israel is like the 51st US state. He's declaring that this is "misinformation"

That Israel exists as a de-facto US state is a fairly non-controversial statement in Israel. But on lemmy.world's largest communities, where mods are working to distance certain US politicians from the war, it's now misinformation.

Hello mods, the current mod of !kanyewest@lemmy.world has been inactive for 9 months so I was thinking if I could mod it. I'm aware that me being currently banned from fediverse community for my rude tone in a post is not looking good right now and for that I apologies. And so I understand if you do not want to mod me, but since I'm the only poster there I thought I should ask anyway.

I mod !bunnies@lemmy.world. Was originally added with my now-dead @Elevator7009@kbin.run. I cannot login to that account and remove myself because kbin.run died. Now the community appears to have two same-name mods. It is not the biggest deal ever but I would like a way to boot my dead account from the mod team.

Hello, I would like to request to be added as a mod for !rva@lemmy.world. I don't know if it's best practice to keep the (inactive) original mod on, but the current mod hasn't posted or commented since November of last year, nor have they responded to any of my DMs. I don't have any grand plans, I just want to help monitor for spam, potentially find another co-moderator to carry the torch in case I get hit by a bus, and hopefully grow it into a more active community. I currently co-moderate two other small communities - !caps@lemmy.world and !asoiaf@lemmy.world. Thanks!

I tend to browse /All and by New on Lemmy. I went to respond on a thread on !vegan@lemmy.world to thank someone for a recipe that looked good, and found out I had been banned.

Odd, considering I hadn't posted to that sub at any point in the past. I checked the modlog to find that "Mod" had banned a bunch of people citing "Rule 5."

Their Rule 5 states: Bad-faith carnist rhetoric & anti-veganism are not allowed, as this is not a space to debate the merits of veganism. Anyone is welcome here, however, and so good-faith efforts to ask questions about veganism may be given their own weekly stickied post in the future (see current stickied discussion).

I (and hundreds of others) seemingly broke rule 5 of this community without ever posting there. What is going on?

And my apologies if this isn't the place for this, but I had no idea where else to post the question.

The moderators of !finalfantasyxiv@lemmy.world have not logged in, posted or commented in 12 months. The community is still active and slowly gaining more subscribers. I've reached out to @JoeChio@lemmy.world the main moderator there, multiple times without a reply asking if they were willing to transfer, but I've yet to have a reply.

I'm moderator at !finalfantasy@lemmy.world which shares a lot of similar content with it being part of the same series. As !finalfantasyxiv@lemmy.world is still active I'd like to build on what is there and ensure that there is someone able to moderate if required.

cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/18411894

Hello Lemmings!

I am thinking of making a community moderation bot for Lemmy. This new bot will have faster response times with the help of Lemmy webhooks, an amazing plugin for Lemmy instances by @RikudouSage@lemmings.world to add webhook support. With this, there is no need to frequently call the API at a fixed interval to fetch new data. Any new data will be sent via the webhook directly to the bot backend. This allows for actions within seconds, thus making it an effective auto moderation tool.

I have a few features I thought of doing:

• Welcome messages
• Auto commenting on new posts
• Scheduled posts
• Punish content authors or remove content via word blacklist/regex
• Ban members of communities by their usernames/bios via word blacklist or regex
• Auto community lockdown during spam

What other features do you think are possible? Please let me know. Any questions are also welcome.

Community requested features:

• Strike system

Strikes are added to a certain member of the community and the member will be temporarily banned within a time period if their strike count reaches a certain threshold

• Post creation restriction by account age

If an account's age is lower than X, remove the post.

Just venting here. It's a very low traffic community for a sports team, with announcements from that team's own website posted to the community. And people have to come in and vote it down. 😐

As far as I’m aware, mods can only access banning functionality on user comments.

If someone in a community keeps pestering mods with BS reports, but that user has not posted a comment in the community, is there a way to ban that person?

I can’t seem to find anything in the UI to handle this use case.

!curlyhair@lemmy.world

The moderator hasn't logged in in a year. It's sleepy but not dead.

I'm looking to start a community. there's currently a bug with lemm.ee and the way it interacts with Boost for lemmy, so I think I'll avoid it at least for now.

which instance do you guys find to be the most reliable?

In a similar vein to this post. Mistakes happen.

Also, when I was initially looking for the button to edit the sidebar I was actually scared to try out that button because the proximity to "leave mod team" and the fact it's just an image of something getting edited made me think it was related to unmodding myself. Considering I had to get a Lemmy admin to install this obvious alt account because my Mbin main account cannot add mods to, edit the sidebar of, or handle reports from Lemmy communities, I was really hesitant to take the risk of possibly unmodding myself and having to bug the admin to help me out yet again.

The originating moderator of a community that I mod hasn’t been around for about 6 months.

What do y’all do when someone peaces out? Is there a way to hand the parent mod account to whoever is next in line?

Mod has not touched their Lemmy account in 11 months. I would like to eventually hand it over to someone willing so long as they keep it about bunny rabbits, but as for now… I'm active and post a decent amount, including on !bunnies@lemmy.world, and have done so for awhile.

I don't really want to, but it doesn't have any mods currently.

I have some expertise with spiders and would rather stick to doing just IDs, but since there is no mod maybe it's good to have a contingency plan in case some spam turns up ... or to delete the classic "it's a brown recluse" comment ... when it's any brown spider.

But I'm happy to concede to anyone else that actually wants to be a mod.

Mistakes happen. It almost did with me today when I went to post, clicked accidently, and was asked if I wanted to destroy the community I've spent months building. Who thought it was smart UI design to put these 2 options side by side?

This is related to https://lemmy.world/post/13066509

IMO, one of the things that made Reddit deteriorate in quality was the cultural change in how to use votes. Early on, voting was meant as "this is interesting/not interesting for the community". It was only later (maybe around the time that Facebook got heavy into the algorithm recommendations based on reactions ) that voting on a post/comment started to mean "I like/dislike this" and "I want/do not want more of this".

What ended up happening is that contributed to the "filter bubble" effect. People started relying on voting as a way to customize their feeds.

None of this works with Lemmy, because we don't have (yet?) a good recommendation system or a client that can filter/sort the posts based on the user's voting history. So we are stuck with the worst of both worlds: people are downvoting things that do not help them to manage the content, and people from other "niche" communities are being met with downvotes just because their content is not appealing to the majority. Ask people from non-english speaking communities, and they will tell you that any post is immediately voted down by people who are not related at all with the community.

I still think there is value in the downvotes. When the person voting has already established some authority at the community where the post/comment is being made, a downvote is a good signal about the relevance of that post/comment to the rest of the community. For this reason, I don't think I'd remove down votes from my instances.

However, can we start working on a set of guidelines to help users understand when it is appropriate to vote in a post/comment?

Just wanted to rant a bit as I'm having seeing that happening a bit more and more recently, not only on lemmy.world but also on Lemmy as a whole.

Makes it hard to keep you head cool sometimes, I think it's even harder because I legitimately cannot understand what they are trying to do by being disrespectful.

I guess that comes with being a very niche platform for a very niche population.

Have a good one, everyone.

I moderate !usmlr@lemmy.world, I just noticed that all the posts older than about 7 months are not visible. Looking at my own post history I can see those older posts, so I know they're still there. But why aren't they displayed when viewing the community directly?

I'd rather not leave that kinda /c/ unmoded.