Hello, i wouldn't mind modding 196 along with you all. However i am not trans, so i may not be the best choice.

In any way, thanks for creating this and good luck with it 🤠

You could always just copy the old 196 rules. They work pretty well.

I wrote these rules for a venting room on the blåhaj matrix, perhaps they could be of some inspiration here. A venting room on a different medium will have very different needs of course from a community like this.

Rules

User rules

• Assume others have good intentions. Strive to keep this a safe space to vent.
• Tangents are allowed, but the primary purpose of the room is venting.
• Don't respond to vents if the venter does not wish to be interacted with. You can mark a vent with /dni to signify this.
• Keep mature vents in 18+ rooms if possible. Use https://trggr.link/ if such rooms are unavailable.
• Censor/spoiler sensitive issues and provide content warnings as appropriate. https://trggr.link/ is an excellent way to censor something. Some clients support surrounding text in || on either side of it to censor it like this: ||spoilered text||. Some clients may have a spoiler command: /spoiler spoilered text.

Issues you probably should spoiler: Slurs, racism, ableism, bigotry, suicide, self harm, abuse, drug/alcohol abuse, blood and gore.

Moderator rules

• Use a gentle hand, don't reprimand!
• Assume good intentions.
• When moderating, use DMs or moderator rooms for anything beyond single-comment moderation and for anything serious.
• Don't leave moderated users in the dark regarding issues they are directly involved in.
• Warn, then kick, then temp-ban, then perma-ban (avoid), in that order, when dealing with non-compliant users and serious infractions. Skip steps if necessary for larger infractions.
• Users may appeal your decisions and some arguing should be tolerated. Attempt to deescalate when this happens. Harassing you however is never okay.
• If you feel yourself become angry at or get a bad relationship with a user you are moderating then pass on the issue to another mod if they are available.
• Take care of yourself. You are moderating voluntarily after all.

Proper guidelines for moderators is probably key, and then for users a quick summary of the purpose of the community is important, followed by any additions to the instance rules.

I would be happy to help mod, I modded some stuff on the old site.

Regardless, here's what I'd like to see out of the moderation here:

• I fully agree with your points on moderation, but I think it's important to add to #1 that no major decisions should be made by the mods, even if all of them are in agreement. They should be discussed with the community.

• Semi-regular "ask the mods" post (or just one that's stickied). Basically if anyone disagrees with or has questions about a mod action, they can comment there and the mods pledge to answer any question.

I have a few ~~suckers~~ really nice people who volunteered for modding along with me.

r those the people I mentioned in my post or r there even more?

I didn't think this would take off!

yeh the community has been specially active today to make sure the new 196 grows apparently X3 I knew thatd happen the moment I saw the migration post in the old 196 tho, I love this community :3

if i have any feedback then i would say that we need some proper rules in place, yeah we can just default to the instance rules but i think having some solid set of rules for moderators and users alike to follow would be a good idea. if you need help modding im interested.

Subbed!

Is there something to know about the "old" 196?

Sorry I'm out of the loop.

I'm willing to help with moderation if needed

Can a rule be "fuck spez"?

Oh wait, we don't need something so obvious.:-)

Lyndon Baines Johnson?

Nice post