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/m/politics has no moderators other than ernest (kbin.social)

submitted 2 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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/m/politics is basically unmoderated, and the trolls and other ne'er-do-wells are starting to find it. I'm not even particularly interested in following it, but that's one topic that you don't want to leave unmoderated. It's a troll magnet for obvious reasons, and that starts to affect the rest of the instance (and the fediverse) if there isn't anyone enforcing some sort of decorum.

@ernest I know you're ridiculously busy right now, but could you find a moment to appoint someone to recruit a mod team for /m/politics? I'd be willing to do the recruiting if you don't have any better candidates, but I wouldn't want to remain on as a moderator after that's done.

Alternatively does anyone here actively want the job?

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

https://kbin.social/m/kbinMeta/t/35027/Spam-and-porn-are-flooding-kbin-already#entry-comment-148017

Definitely, in the upcoming days, apart from staying in close contact with the maintainers, I would like a;so to build a moderation team. That is a priority. However, I first need to urgently address and take care of a few matters.

Today, I will review the moderation log. Until then, please block content at the profile level. The moderation issue has become very urgent. Unless you have specific candidates for moderators now, I am open to suggestions.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

For /m/politics, I don't have candidates in mind yet. If I'm assigned this task, my plan is roughly:

Create a basic set of rules. Should establish the obvious things (civil behavior, no bigotry, etc), as well as what the Overton window of the magazine should be. I'm thinking from non-tankie leftists to non-MAGA conservatives, so tankies and fascists would be excluded. Should also exclude miscellaneous conspiracy theorists and the like, regardless of where they fall on the political spectrum. In practice that window might be too wide to keep civil, so the future mod team may want to narrow it, but I think it'd be good to at least start out that way.
Pin a post asking for moderator applications. Applicants should state what their political position is, and point to any relevant post/comment history on political topics, so that I can get a feel for them. The goal is to have a diverse range of moderators within the Overton window that I mentioned above. Previous experience as a moderator is also relevant, of course.
Write some initial (suggested) moderation policies to outline how moderation should happen. These are likely to be changed by the moderation team once it's in place, but will serve as a sort of social contract between the mods, including a process for how changes should be made. I think this is important, given the ideological diversity I want to aim for.

Once those are done and the team is recruited, I would step down. It might be preferable to have someone that intends to stay on the mod team and has experience moderating political forums take on this task, but I also didn't want to be just pointing out a problem without offering to help fix it. Whoever does end up doing it can feel free to take whatever they like from these ideas and run with them, of course.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

...Annnd they made /m/politics a USA thing only.

It's fine, leave this bone to the attention seekers and get your news from another magazine.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I’m curious though, all federated Magazines also say @ernest is the only moderator. I’m not sure, but it might just default to him if there’s no other moderator. (Though I would hope that /m/politics would have more support)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I think the mags were created as placeholders so people coming from Reddit will at least see some mags that look farmilar.

The feeling I get is that as mags get busy and as people start stepping on each other's toes, mods will be in high demand.

That bring said, @ernest has asked for mods and has mentioned building a moderation team.

Shout out for all the work you done so far @ernest!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

The moderation in fediverse operates with remote mags, and these mags belong to their owners - you can verify this in the modlog; It is an error in displaying the information, and it will be fixed soon. As for moderation team - yes, I am working on it, and I think I am on the right track :)

https://codeberg.org/Kbin/kbin-core/issues/12

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Honestly taking a glance at it it's doing shockingly well for being effectively unmoderated (if the number beside moderation log means what I think it does, there have been no moderator actions, though maybe "admin actions" don't show up there or something).

I doubt that will last though.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Honestly if I was an admin I'd ban politics from my instance completely lol. Have the magazine already blocked as I knew how it would turn out ¯_(ツ)_/¯

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I've never been a mod before but wouldn't mind giving it a shot on mag. I am positive politics is not the one to start on tho

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I'm in the same boat, but I wonder if you can mod on a casual basis, because I'm just not spend 3 hours a day modding material, maybe a half hour here or there tops 😋

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

That's my thinking as well. A place with a couple other mods.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Oh gods, are you sure you want to do this then? It's going to be one of the most intense mod roles you'll ever do. It'll really be a trial by fire, sink or swim thing.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Wouldn't mind volunteering for this.

Note: I'm an anarchist, and won't tolerate most forms of bigotry.