Edit at the top: My lemmy.world alt has been added as a mod, so now I’m going back through reports (mostly from before I was a mod, so bear with me). You can, of course, send me a dm for anything requiring immediate attention, but I’m also able to see reports properly now.
Well its only been a couple days, but the response has been very consistent and functionally unanimous.
Rule 3 is now revised to read:
Posts here are to be centered around self-hosting. Please ensure it is clear in your post how it relates to self-hosting.
There may be some slight tweaks, but I’m going to consider this good for now.
As an important note, I’m still waiting on a ticket response from the lemmy.world team to get my lemmy.world alt added for report purposes. If you see something that requires more immediate attention please send me a message in addition to a report. Also, some of the other rules have been trimmed to just the point of the rule, removing the commentary in them.
In addition, rule 7 (low effort posts) is deleted as everyone seems to agree its handled just fine with votes.
A few related items out of the discussion:
- Posts that are better off in a different community (not just intent, but also a community thats appropriately supported by activity) will be locked only after that community is noted. There is a bit of subjectivity here obviously, so lets play it by ear at the moment. They will not be deleted though, only locked.
- If there is an influx of simple posts about hardware, pictures of setups, etc., then we can go ahead with a weekly sticky for that content. There aren’t enough in the log to justify this yet.
- Low effort content is currently well managed with upvotes and downvotes. Again, if there is an influx of low effort content, we can use a different approach.
- Repeated common questions, once enough of them are being seen, will go to an FAQ post or a wiki. Not enough of those in the modlog either right now to justify the effort, but if someone does want to go ahead and make one, we can get that going anyway.
I appreciate everyone’s input on this! And remember I’m just here to help, so if there are any other rules / descriptions / whatever you feel should be up for discussion, you can feel free to start a discussion about it.
I think that’s a fair assessment. If it becomes an issue where we’re getting inundated with low-quality posts, then it might be worth bringing it back up.