Hi all,

I’m an admin on lemmy.blahaj.zone, /196’s home instance. I’m not a member of /196, and I’m not familiar with its history. However, I’m seeing a LOT of reports coming through that aren’t being actioned by community mods.

It looks like the original mod has deleted their account, and the remaining mod hasn’t been active since their initial post 2 days ago.

What I’m hoping to see is that @threegnomes logs back in, appoints some mods and gets things under control.

But should that not happen, I’m going to need to step in and appoint some mods myself

Either way, if you’re interested in being a mod, please reply below. I (and hopefully @threegnomes) will look at everyone that gets lots of community support (via upvotes or replies) and put some more mods in.

Lots of upvotes doesn’t mean you automatically get the job. I reserve the right to veto candidates that I think are going to create more work rather than reduce it.

  • Silverstrings@lemmy.blahaj.zone
    4·
    2 years ago

    I’ll put my name forward as a potential mod but whoever you pick, just please for the love of god make sure they aren’t a tankie. You can usually sus them out by asking about the holodomor or the molotov-ribbentrop pact.

  • moss@lemmy.worldMEnglish
    2·
    2 years ago

    Hi there, I’m interested in becoming a mod because I run a bunch of events on 196s discord server, as well as run the 195 community here on lemmy as the sole moderator. 195 was originally 196 before this version was created, and has nearly as many active users. I also have a little bit of prior experience moderating on other websites like reddit and discord. (I’m also very much not a tankie) thanks!

  • altoids0@lemmy.blahaj.zone
    1·
    2 years ago

    I can play custodian if you need it. It’d be super lame to see this community get goofed on by spam or bigoted stuff, after managing to regrow so fast.

  • Jediotty@beehaw.orgEnglish
    1·
    2 years ago

    I would be interested in being a mod, honestly just want people to not be jerks, we can disagree just don’t be mean.

    Also Trans Rights are Human rights. Human rights are non-negotiable.

        • GrandmasterFrank@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
          0·
          2 years ago

          idk where the discourse regarding the “gender neutral dude” landed, although I considered swapping it out for “amigo” but that obviously has its own gendered nature, although I think in English it is suitable neutered (“amiga” means nothing to English speakers except to computer nerds)

          • akari@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
            1·
            2 years ago

            I just found that a bit funny, dw. also, as a native Spanish speaker, I do find “amigo/a” a tad annoying hahaha. guess gender neutralization™ is somewhat difficult hahahahahab :'D

  • Ryumast3r@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    2 years ago

    Rule 196 is a simple rule: if you enter the “sub” (obviously from reddit), you must post before leaving.

    It usually ends up being very random, which leads it to both being easy and very difficult to moderate.

    For a long time the original reddit version had some toxicity and lots of porn (or at least NSFW content). If it isn’t marked NSFW, I’d do that and (assuming NSFW is allowed on lemmy.blahaj) mostly leave it be unless there’s something really problematic and/or potentially illegal.

    Honestly have no idea how to even moderate these communities. Reddit was hard enough without 3rd party tools.