We’re looking to put together some more detailed rules on what should and should not be submitted to the instance. Things such as, but not exclusively:

  • What types of message you would always like to see removed on sight
  • Whether there are any types of message which should be left up (borderline, with strong corrections from the community)
  • Where the line is drawn on political views (and how gray areas should be treated)

I’ll make no bones: Moderating uk/ukpol has been a learning experience for me.
I’ve learned that there often isn’t much difference between “leaving a comment up because the community has done an excellent job highlighting flaws” and “I should have removed this hours ago, the community shouldn’t have to do this”.
As there isn’t a way to mod-tag a post, inaction on negative posts can reflect badly on the instance as a whole.

Having some clear guidelines/rules will hopefully simplify things.
And more admins should mean that if a report isn’t looked at, someone can review it as an escalation.

I’ve also enabled the slur filters. And we’ll be listening to see if anything needs adding/removing (the template had swearing blocked :| )

So…Answers on a postcard, I guess!

  • ianovic69@feddit.ukEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Thanks for the reply. As I said, I think I may have very strong filter. I know these things exist, I just seem to be able to avoid and ignore them.

    I’ve rarely ventured outside of my own communities other than to be curious and always found what I suspected was there, on both Reddit and Lemmy, and that’s probably why I’m not subjected to it as well.

    I must add that I am aware of generally how much good work the mods do and I’m using that to enable my experience to be a good one.

    Thanks for the chat, it’s helped me to evaluate things again. A self reflection of sorts.