Lemmy.World Community Moderation Guidelines

Guidelines

First of all, every community on Lemmy.world should follow the lemmy.world rules
Please create a sidebar with some contents, at least a description of the community and some extra rules when applicable
Adding a banner and icon for the community makes it prettier. Please do.
Every community needs enough moderators.

About moderators

Moderation is very important. This site needs to be a safe place for everyone. The more subscribers and posts, the more moderators you'll need. Make sure you have moderators in all timezones, so if bad stuff is reported in your community, it doesn't need to sit there until you're off work... As the community grows, add even more moderators.

Reports

A moderator will receive reports for reported content in their community. (The admins will receive a copy of all reports in all communities). Please resolve the reports according to the site rules and community rules, as soon as possible. If reports are open for too long (more than 24 hours), the admins will contact the moderator(s). If this keeps happening, the moderators might be replaced.

These guidelines are under construction. Please check back after a few days, hopefully it's more complete ;-)

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Hope this is the place to ask a sorta specific question of the admins. If not, please tell me where to go. :)
I am considering launching a page for news about America's loony Republicans, similar to the page I'm moderating about crooked cops.
It'll only be news, but the sidebar will include my perfectly factual motto, "Republicans are the enemy of common sense, common decency, and democracy."
My question is, would that violate the rule that mods must "Provide a friendly, safe, and welcoming environment for everyone regardless of ... political affiliation"?
Whatever the answer, thank you for Lemmy.World. I'm having a blast here.

Ngl, I have no idea what I'm doing, and I am absolutely afraid to be in a position of any type of perceived power. Here's to figuring it out!
- When in doubt, ask yourself: am I being a power hungry asshole? If you are, stop doing that thing 😅
  
  I was never a mod on Reddit, but I was around that site for a very long time. I've seen plenty of examples of both good and bad moderation. I'm still new to figuring this out for myself, but I have a pretty good idea how to conduct myself.
  And if I make a mistake I just say "oopsie poopsie" like I'm a simpleton /s

I've noticed some admin are moderating various communities but not necessarily moderating to the rules of the community. How does everyone feel about that?
- Could you give an example?
  
  Modlog on c/politics

Bans do not seem to work. The button spins forever, and unlike some other similar issues this one does not seem to resolve in the background after some time.

Some of the communities I've started are becoming more popular, and I have less time. Even tho everyone is 100% chill for now (only two reports and both false alarms), I guess I should add some mods.
My question is, do all mods have the same rights? In particular, can a mod remove another mod, especially myself? Or add new ones?
How to check other mods' work, e.g. whether they don't ban someone inappropriately?
What moderation tools are there? I only see removal and ban, is there anything else? I guess one can send a warning through a message?
I don't wanna be some dictator or anything, in fact I find it important to keep the atmosphere cool and let people express themselves even if they are upset or make a mistake. How to coordinate such an atmosphere?
A lot of people have weird experiences with Reddit mods that would ban you for nothing and were overall drama queens. I'd prefer to avoid that, if that makes sense.
- Any mod can assign a new mod. The first mod / owner of the community can't be un-modded. There aren't many more tools yet. I sure hope there will be some added soon, moderating is very hard atm...
  
  moderating is very hard atm…
  Took me forever to find the context link on reports...or maybe I'm just dumb.
  
  I think Lemmy needs a dedicated mod page that clearly outlines the actions that can take place with links to other views. We need a modmail page so that mods can be contacted and reply to questions anonymously (reply as group). We need a page that shows who we’ve banned and the reasons for the ban. There’s a lot more but this would be a good start.

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