Guidelines

• First of all, every community on Lemmy.world should follow the lemmy.world rules
• Please create a sidebar with some contents, at least a description of the community and some extra rules when applicable
• Adding a banner and icon for the community makes it prettier. Please do.
• Every community needs enough moderators.

About moderators

Moderation is very important. This site needs to be a safe place for everyone. The more subscribers and posts, the more moderators you'll need. Make sure you have moderators in all timezones, so if bad stuff is reported in your community, it doesn't need to sit there until you're off work... As the community grows, add even more moderators.

Reports

A moderator will receive reports for reported content in their community. (The admins will receive a copy of all reports in all communities). Please resolve the reports according to the site rules and community rules, as soon as possible. If reports are open for too long (more than 24 hours), the admins will contact the moderator(s). If this keeps happening, the moderators might be replaced.

These guidelines are under construction. Please check back after a few days, hopefully it's more complete ;-)

Hiya mods! The men’s World Cup is once again upon us which means that drunken soccer fans have spilled out of containment and into our streets and online communities. If this is fun for you and your community, wonderful! It is (ostensibly) a tournament for the whole world, and lots of different communities are likely to want to have different kinds of discussions about it. On the other hand, if this is not fun for you and your community, I would like to invite you to send them over to ![email protected]. I’ve put a fresh coat of paint on the place, and primed the pump with some posts, so hopefully it’ll help redirect posting from communities that want to discuss other stuff in peace.

I will also mention the great folks over at ![email protected] , which is the best general soccer community I’ve seen in my time in the threadiverse (and there have been many), though I won’t speak on their behalf, in case they don’t want a big influx of people who seem to mostly want to post about how much Trump’s World Cup sucks (valid).

I mod a few communities here and I was wondering if there were any kind of analytical tools available to track engagement, post frequency, comment frequency, trends, etc.

I scrolled through the last year's worth of posts here and I didn't find anything along those lines. A search engine did not provide anything but maybe I'm using the wrong terms.

I was wondering if there is a way to only allow community members to vote on posted threads?

Hi!

I'm a new mod. I have two fresh coms on two instances, things have been pretty smooth.

I thought about banning when I noticed about half of my posts were being downvoted by the same user with no upvotes or engagement. I'm waiting to see if it continues, so I'm not banning them yet.

Next, I was clicking around in the Connect app trying to figure it out when it froze and I somehow banned myself from my own community. The admin here at Lemmy.Today helped me out pretty quick.

So my questions are:

Is it possible to ban someone without a post or comment, and how?

Do you think chronic downvoting is a good reason to ban someone?

How do you unban a user? Follow up, is this a good reason to make an alternate mod account just in case?

What are some of your reasons for banning people, and why?

I found a lot of great information on moderating in general, but almost nothing on how to do things. Are there any resources I might have missed?

Lazily crossing out bits of normal words in a clear bid to increase comment count/engagement metrics to boost a post is on a sharp and marked rise on Lemmy. Do we need to have a more active hand in removing these posts to keep discussions from getting polluted? It’s really quite tedious to see it happening so often.

I made a tool some time ago to respond quicker to reports which didn’t federate to the instance of my main account (lemmy.world). Previously I would have to check from multiple instances, and now I get a notification on my phone when a report is made within a couple of minutes. I've now added built-in ntfy.sh support.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/35221872

I often get reports with just “Breaks Community Rules” and no additional context. This is because Voyager automatically sets the mandatory report reason as “Breaks Community Rules” without actually adding a reason. However, it's often not clear why a post would break those rules and which rule would be broken.

EDIT: Trying it again today, hoping it will work out before tonight when my old instance goes down. So far, it very much looks like yesterday is repeating itself. My personal guess is, the mod promotion doesn't properly reach lemmy.world for some reason, and then later, the other two instances sync with lemmy.world as the authority (after all the community is on there) and say (rightfully) "hey, the instance the comm is on doesn't have those accounts as mods, we better remove the privileges again!".

lemmy.abnormalbeings.space sees:

lemmy.world sees:

piefed.world sees:

So, my original instance lemmy.abnormalbeings.space will be closing down tomorrow (as of this post) due to lack of use and overall a re-focussing on the PeerTube platform on the server. Originally, ![email protected] was created by someone else, but they seem to have deleted their account on lemmy.world and moved over to piefed.social. So my account is currently the only mod left.

As my old account on my instance, I added my new accounts (on PieFed.world and Lemmy.world respectively) as moderators, and locally on my instance, they appeared in the interface immediately (at first). My PieFed account also appeared as a moderator a short while after on PieFed.world in the interface. Thinking this might just be a federation issue for the lemmy.world account to also be added, I let it sit for a few hours, but unfortunately, now neither of the accounts appear as mods any more (also on my old instance), seemingly something in the federating process removed them again, or something in the system rejected the promotion (maybe because the accounts were too young?).

This is not ideal, since after my self-hosted instance will go down, there would be no moderator accounts left for the community. Does anyone know what could be the issue and how it could be resolved?

I made this tool some time ago to respond quicker to reports which didn't federate to the instance of my main account (lemmy.world). Previously I would have to check from multiple instances daily, and now I get a notification on my phone when a report is made within a couple of minutes. I cleaned it up a little and added some documentation in case anyone else is dealing with this issue or needs something like this.

Hey you!

I just created a community.
And started to wonder whether it's cool/interesting enough. Or whether it even follows the rules to exist in the first place, heh...

There's one old post about the matter already: https://lemmy.world/post/285637?sort=New
It discusses generating enough content in a new community to give some ground for discussion, and moderating it.

But I thought that as time has passed...maybe we'd have some new/more insight or ideas/thoughts about different tips, tricks or guidelines towards creating a quality community? A 2025 version of that old post, if you will.

EDIT: question answered in commented links. Keeping it here for record keeping.

I saw that this user is constantly reposting from other instances, it's basically all they do.

I could just block them, but I was wondering

• is this maybe just a bot?
• is it against the rules?

Ideally, they'd crosspost instead of repost. And I think this is against the very idea of the instance federation.

It's really more a question than a call for action.

https://feddit.org/u/[email protected]

This user is going completely crazy, but not in a funny way. They deserve an account wide ban. How do I even report this?

https://feddit.org/u/[email protected]

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/30801261

I'm noticing a pattern starting to develop in the community I mod (just barely -- it's only happened 3 times so far) where a user that posts a fairly large amount of relevant content occasionally posts weird spam with a title of alternating letter nonsense (e.g. "zazaz" or "sdsdsds") and a link that goes to some random domain that serves nothing but a default 404 error (as in the domain is registered and there's a server responding to requests, but there's no content for it to serve).

I suppose it could just be bad behavior on the part of said users, but it feels more like a bug or their account getting hijacked or something. Anybody have any insight?

I am a mod of two communities, and I have noticed that a mod can completely change the community, spare delete it. One wrong mod and the place is done.

Hello. How do I apply for admin, and I created a community, so how to I appoint admins in it?

I mod a disability related community ([email protected]). And I just ran into a massive ableist in the wild.

Can I ban them from the community preemptively.

Been awhile since I've felt inclined to extend some timeouts to anyone for light rule violations and was surprised to find that the only options for timeouts/temp bans appear to be for a day or more.

This isn't a case of overlooking anything, is it? Or some hidden setting where you could put 1h or 1 hour and have it apply?

A day minimum for what's intended as a timeout feels excessive, but if it's the only option anymore. 😕

I would expect it to reduce the list of communities to just those I moderate, so just to ![email protected] here. Instead it looks just like the Local list of communities for me. It occurred to me I could be very wrong about what Moderator view is supposed to be. How does this work?