@FatalChessInjury@lemmy.fmhy.ml has been appointed as a mod of !newzealand, and will be starting to look at fleshing out the details of the community.

I know you’ll make them feel welcome :)

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[–] MaungaHikoi@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Ah yep, I see where this is going now after his post the other day. No thanks, I'll join another NZ community that isn't going to ignore bigotry in service of "free speech" 👋

[–] ycnz 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Yeah, I'm in the same boat. I'm looking for "people from reddit", not "people who got banned from reddit". Where are you headed?

[–] MaungaHikoi@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

Not sure yet, still getting my head around the different server instances and who is ending up where.

[–] cloventt 4 points 1 year ago

I think I have similar opinions to you, but I’ll give them the benefit of the doubt for now.

Hope to see you around in the ‘verse anyway.

[–] Dave 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

They are a mod because they applied. You did not.

Please feel free to apply for a mod position. We need all sorts of views on the team, and I've received very few applications. Be the change you want to see.

[+] schzztl 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

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[–] Dave 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

First come first serve is a poor method of picking moderators

Great theory, but we have existed not much longer than a week. We don't have another method.

It’s not like this instance is big enough to desperately need many mods right now.

We absolutely need more coverage. Another instance had CSAM posted and this federated out to other instances, they didn't have a mod online and so other instances were left having to deal with it. One person cannot provide the cover we need. In fact I'm considering closing registrations each night since I didn't get much interest from my request for help.

And I mean, picking the freeze peach mod implies some endorsement of his beliefs on your part.

I did not get a "freeze peach" vibe from the post. Maybe I'm naive, but I got a "we're all adults here, we don't need to be petty" vibe. Whether it works in practice or not is another story, but it felt good intentioned.

[–] ycnz 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That you didn't get a free speech absolutist vibe from their post is why people are concerned about you.

[–] Dave 1 points 1 year ago

Great! Help me out, come join the team.

[–] MaungaHikoi@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Communities are driven first by the people that join them, then who sticks around. In a setup like this, where anyone can drive by comment from any old instance, you're going to need to ban abusive people or the good users will leave. /r/newzealand had a solid set of rules and for the most part they were consistently applied.

https://god.dailydot.com/bartender-kicks-out-tweets someone linked the nazi bar story the other day, Twitter is fucked for me atm so I can't link the original. Either way, if you don't kick out the shitheads straight away then they become your userbase, and the kicking out has to come from the mods in Lemmy. Downvotes don't do anything here.

[–] Dave 2 points 1 year ago

If you see shitheads, report them. I am working on a post to ask the community how different content should be treated, so keep an eye out for that.

[–] bruzie 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

~~I was a bit confused about this but have now discovered that the mod user is the same as the justgettingalong user (who must have forgot to switch alias in their comment in this thread).~~

~~Interesting that it appears you can have different identities tied to the same account across different instances.~~

Edit: My mistake, they are two separate accounts. I got confused as both accounts argued that there was nothing wrong with one nazi in the bar.