I believe that this post would have fit better in [email protected]. That said I'm not going to remove this post because I'm very open to what's allowed on this community. My idea is to just tag the posts according to the content when the post tags get finally implemented into lemmy. Initially I wanted to be much more strict in the content there but later on realised that lemmy is too small for splitting the communities into different kinds of "hmmm". My current policy is to remove posts that are fully missing any "hmmm" and otherwise let them be unless they are trolly or break the instance rules. If anyone has any feedback on that please respond to me here. ๐ง
The point isn't moderating for the sake of moderating but moderating for the sake of actually distinguishing the communities in content. I can put out a point that posting to a community for the sake of posting isn't great either. There needs to be a balance but it's hard to get it correctly sometimes. What's the point of c/mildyinfuriating when very infuriating stuff gets posted there? What's the point of c/technology when it's just politics? And so on. The concept of communities is to divide the content into chunks where people can pick and follow their preference but if there's no moderation then that kills the concept behind it because each community would be one and the same. What I'm trying to say is that because there are mods that aren't moderating "properly" depending on the perspective it's not a good argument to not moderate anything anymore. Lemmy is already heavily unmoderated anyway as it is and focusing on engagement over allowing people to have their feeds be catered to their preferences isn't ideal imo. Additionally I think that being unable to create a feed of stuff you like hurts the engagement more long-term because that's the point of platforms like lemmy anyway to have topic centered communities.
E: For example I'm enforcing the "hmmm" title rule. If I were to give it up and allow whatever titles people want the community would lose a lot of personality and there wouldn't be fun of figuring out things in picture for yourself anymore.