For me it’s the long term commitment, what about y’all?
Same. (Long term commitment).
Now, if we had an anarcho syndicate commune where we took it in turns to act as an executive…
Lol, I am actually planning to make something like that, hence I asked the question.
My biggest fear is most people don’t wanna commit to the idea of moderating. What happens to smaller communities?
Though I have figured out one way or other some solution, don’t expect all of them to stick. Nevertheless, I’ll start working on it next week. Though it isn’t exactly anarchy that I’m aiming. It’s actually Athen sortition democracy.
The communities I’m interested in are already well-moderated. I’d probably also be super passionate for a few days then vanish until something sparks my interest again.
I dont want to
Done it before. I try not to be as online any more. Literally bad for your mental health. Honestly hated how online I’ve been with recovery from surgery
I have a life and a job; that means: my crippling depression.
I’m the one who needs moderation.
I ran a forum once, about 20-25 years ago. I got caught up in some bullshit and I banned a guy for speaking out of turn and daring me to. I got a lot of respect for the guy, it was people I mostly know (mostly online though) but whether or not he lost any for me, I lost some for myself. What I should have done was said, we’re all adults here, fucking act like it. But no, I had a ban hammer and I swung it. It didn’t fix anything.
I started a community on the instance I’m on yesterday. I hope I don’t have to do any moderating. But I may. Who knows. Fortunately it’s on dbzer0 and they’re pretty free-speech unless it goes directly against their politics, I’m not sure if that’ll be an issue. I hope it won’t. This shit that’s happening overseas. I made a music community. We didn’t have one for some reason, I decided to be the change I wanted to see in the fediverse. (I know there are music communities on other instances. I wanted to support the one I’m on.)
So, I don’t think a lot of people need to be moderated. I think the voting handles most of it, you can set your Lemmy client to ignore people with so many downvotes, and I think that’s fine. Or at least you could on the red site.
But also, to the OP, do you think people are just handing out moderation jobs? I think what you maybe want to ask is what’s preventing people from starting a community. In which case I would say start one on your instance. However OP is on Lemmy.world, which is the biggest instance. I think you can only start them on your own instance? So it’s different for World users. You don’t really want to divide the Fediverse and if something’s already on your instance and you love it, I think you should support it with content and/or comments, and if the community likes you, you should moderate if asked, but you shouldn’t seek it out if they don’t ask/open applications. On smaller instances, I feel like we have more options. I will for sure join comms on other instances (for example the ones on World tend to be the busiest), but I also like to support my local instance with traffic/content first. As any smaller instance user should.
Users are selfish fuck heads
I am a moderator for a community. I haven’t ever had to do any moderating because everyone in there has behaved reasonably.
I’ve run some very small ones. A large one would feel like running a sewage treatment plant.
It ain’t much work.
the shear fucking amount of child porn creepy white dicks post… then threaten to rape and kill you for removing their child porno rape films.
Damn
For big ones it is a time commitment thing, but for small ones I have tried to do my part.
I have found I generally have the time to act as a caretaker for some small communities, and there are more than a couple communities out there which have lone creator accounts that have been deleted and are essentially unmoderated (outside of instance admins).
I found a couple of these, !canada@lemmy.ml and !firefox@lemmy.ml, and decided I could help watch them as a result.
If they are fairly small I would definitely recommend it to anyone else - for me, by far and large, I find that the users who engage with these communities are really very respectful and create good conversation about the topics, which makes my role very simple most of the time.
I used to have moderated chat rooms and forums.
People didn’t like me because I operated on a neutral, non-bias level of judgment. I also actually did shit like, banning/removing people who were problematic or fueling drama.
I guess we’re still not ready for that kind of moderation yet.
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