Hey you!

I just created a community.
And started to wonder whether it's cool/interesting enough. Or whether it even follows the rules to exist in the first place, heh...

There's one old post about the matter already: https://lemmy.world/post/285637?sort=New
It discusses generating enough content in a new community to give some ground for discussion, and moderating it.

But I thought that as time has passed...maybe we'd have some new/more insight or ideas/thoughts about different tips, tricks or guidelines towards creating a quality community? A 2025 version of that old post, if you will.

EDIT: question answered in commented links. Keeping it here for record keeping.

I saw that this user is constantly reposting from other instances, it's basically all they do.

I could just block them, but I was wondering

• is this maybe just a bot?
• is it against the rules?

Ideally, they'd crosspost instead of repost. And I think this is against the very idea of the instance federation.

It's really more a question than a call for action.

https://feddit.org/u/cm0002@lemmy.world

This user is going completely crazy, but not in a funny way. They deserve an account wide ban. How do I even report this?

https://feddit.org/u/DanicaJefferies@lemmy.world

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/30801261

I'm noticing a pattern starting to develop in the community I mod (just barely -- it's only happened 3 times so far) where a user that posts a fairly large amount of relevant content occasionally posts weird spam with a title of alternating letter nonsense (e.g. "zazaz" or "sdsdsds") and a link that goes to some random domain that serves nothing but a default 404 error (as in the domain is registered and there's a server responding to requests, but there's no content for it to serve).

I suppose it could just be bad behavior on the part of said users, but it feels more like a bug or their account getting hijacked or something. Anybody have any insight?

I am a mod of two communities, and I have noticed that a mod can completely change the community, spare delete it. One wrong mod and the place is done.

Hello. How do I apply for admin, and I created a community, so how to I appoint admins in it?

I mod a disability related community (!chronicillness@lemmy.world). And I just ran into a massive ableist in the wild.

Can I ban them from the community preemptively.

Been awhile since I've felt inclined to extend some timeouts to anyone for light rule violations and was surprised to find that the only options for timeouts/temp bans appear to be for a day or more.

This isn't a case of overlooking anything, is it? Or some hidden setting where you could put 1h or 1 hour and have it apply?

A day minimum for what's intended as a timeout feels excessive, but if it's the only option anymore. 😕

I would expect it to reduce the list of communities to just those I moderate, so just to !bunnies@lemmy.world here. Instead it looks just like the Local list of communities for me. It occurred to me I could be very wrong about what Moderator view is supposed to be. How does this work?

I can't find any content from this user from which to access the famous three-dots menu to unban them, and the post that resulted in their ban is already long gone, so I can't do it from there.

Could an administrator please unban the user?

Banned a guy, who's convinced me the ban was too hasty. I'd like to un-ban the banned. Don't see any way to do that.

Thanks.

Edit: Resolved. God bless you, every one!

The mods of procycling are all absent - and the community is suffering for it.

The only moderator has been permanently banned so I’d like to take it over please.

A couple of months ago I wrote a single comment under a post about a hateful rage upon israel in c/news, literally I wrote “What could Hamas do to end the violence?”

Nothing else.

And I got immediately banned.

The moderators refuse to answer my messages.

Not even that, they even banned a buddy who spoke up in my defence per message - not per c/news but really just a personal message to be sure.

In 15 years of Reddit my posts got deleted a lot - but NEVER my comments and I got NEVER banned for anything.

If this is what Lemmy wants to be, then be it but without me.

Do you think this is what Lemmy needs to be?

@jordanlund@lemmy.world is banning people on lemmy.world's largest communities for saying that Israel is like the 51st US state. He's declaring that this is "misinformation"

That Israel exists as a de-facto US state is a fairly non-controversial statement in Israel. But on lemmy.world's largest communities, where mods are working to distance certain US politicians from the war, it's now misinformation.

Hello mods, the current mod of !kanyewest@lemmy.world has been inactive for 9 months so I was thinking if I could mod it. I'm aware that me being currently banned from fediverse community for my rude tone in a post is not looking good right now and for that I apologies. And so I understand if you do not want to mod me, but since I'm the only poster there I thought I should ask anyway.

I mod !bunnies@lemmy.world. Was originally added with my now-dead @Elevator7009@kbin.run. I cannot login to that account and remove myself because kbin.run died. Now the community appears to have two same-name mods. It is not the biggest deal ever but I would like a way to boot my dead account from the mod team.

Hello, I would like to request to be added as a mod for !rva@lemmy.world. I don't know if it's best practice to keep the (inactive) original mod on, but the current mod hasn't posted or commented since November of last year, nor have they responded to any of my DMs. I don't have any grand plans, I just want to help monitor for spam, potentially find another co-moderator to carry the torch in case I get hit by a bus, and hopefully grow it into a more active community. I currently co-moderate two other small communities - !caps@lemmy.world and !asoiaf@lemmy.world. Thanks!

I tend to browse /All and by New on Lemmy. I went to respond on a thread on !vegan@lemmy.world to thank someone for a recipe that looked good, and found out I had been banned.

Odd, considering I hadn't posted to that sub at any point in the past. I checked the modlog to find that "Mod" had banned a bunch of people citing "Rule 5."

Their Rule 5 states: Bad-faith carnist rhetoric & anti-veganism are not allowed, as this is not a space to debate the merits of veganism. Anyone is welcome here, however, and so good-faith efforts to ask questions about veganism may be given their own weekly stickied post in the future (see current stickied discussion).

I (and hundreds of others) seemingly broke rule 5 of this community without ever posting there. What is going on?

And my apologies if this isn't the place for this, but I had no idea where else to post the question.

The moderators of !finalfantasyxiv@lemmy.world have not logged in, posted or commented in 12 months. The community is still active and slowly gaining more subscribers. I've reached out to @JoeChio@lemmy.world the main moderator there, multiple times without a reply asking if they were willing to transfer, but I've yet to have a reply.

I'm moderator at !finalfantasy@lemmy.world which shares a lot of similar content with it being part of the same series. As !finalfantasyxiv@lemmy.world is still active I'd like to build on what is there and ensure that there is someone able to moderate if required.

cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/18411894

Hello Lemmings!

I am thinking of making a community moderation bot for Lemmy. This new bot will have faster response times with the help of Lemmy webhooks, an amazing plugin for Lemmy instances by @RikudouSage@lemmings.world to add webhook support. With this, there is no need to frequently call the API at a fixed interval to fetch new data. Any new data will be sent via the webhook directly to the bot backend. This allows for actions within seconds, thus making it an effective auto moderation tool.

I have a few features I thought of doing:

• Welcome messages
• Auto commenting on new posts
• Scheduled posts
• Punish content authors or remove content via word blacklist/regex
• Ban members of communities by their usernames/bios via word blacklist or regex
• Auto community lockdown during spam

What other features do you think are possible? Please let me know. Any questions are also welcome.

Community requested features:

• Strike system

Strikes are added to a certain member of the community and the member will be temporarily banned within a time period if their strike count reaches a certain threshold

• Post creation restriction by account age

If an account's age is lower than X, remove the post.

Just venting here. It's a very low traffic community for a sports team, with announcements from that team's own website posted to the community. And people have to come in and vote it down. 😐

As far as I’m aware, mods can only access banning functionality on user comments.

If someone in a community keeps pestering mods with BS reports, but that user has not posted a comment in the community, is there a way to ban that person?

I can’t seem to find anything in the UI to handle this use case.