Request to mod c/conservative
Request to mod c/conservative
c/conservative has been left modless. I'd like to request to moderate and clean up any misinformation on this community.
I am consistently online here and prepared to take on the responsibility.
Thank you for your consideration!
The requested community link is !conservative@lemmy.world
Additionally, I'd also like to request !fastfood@lemmy.world as for that one it seems a spam account created it and has since been abandoned for months
ETA:
Given the controversial nature of the comms topic, I have decided to add a proposed set of rules that I was thinking about, to keep it strictly parody without going off the rails:
- Parody With Purpose: This is a space for humorous takes on conservative politics. We welcome satire, but draw the line at content that promotes racism, sexism, homophobia, or other forms of bigotry.
- Memes Over Manifestos: This community focuses on humor and parody, not serious political debate. There are plenty of spaces for earnest conservative discussion—this isn't one of them.
- Highlight Contradictions: The best content points out inconsistencies and hypocrisies in conservative talking points. Creative commentary is encouraged.
- Public Figures Fair Game: Politicians and pundits can be satirized, but no targeting of private individuals, doxxing, or harassment.
- No News Zone: Memes only, news should be sent to the nearest relevant comm
- Clear Satire: Make your satirical intent reasonably clear. We're here to mock bad ideas, not accidentally spread them.
- Relevant Content: All posts should relate to conservative politics or ideologies in some way.
- Community Respect: Disagree with fellow members all you want, but personal attacks aren't welcome. Save the criticism for the ideas, not each other.
- Moderation Discretion: Mods will use reasonable judgment in applying these rules. We'll be fair, but firm.
- Remember The Purpose: This community exists as a pressure valve—a place to process through humor the often frustrating world of conservative politics.
@lwadmin@lemmy.world
as per this post, there is a need for moderation in the stated community (has no mod right now)P.S. : i support @cm0002@lemmy.world for this task
agreed. extremely valid points being made. a community purpose should be largely a decision of the community at large, based on participation and engagement. it's clear there is a substantially higher degree of rich conversations happening on so called meme posts than in "ideological conservative" posts which simply parrot right wing media headlines (and offer very little to discuss or engage ideas).
thanks, it has been 5 days already and there is still no moderator designated for this community ... I will simply ask another administrator to step in ...
it has been 5 days without answer from lwadmin so I am writing to you :
@MrKaplan@lemmy.worldas per this post, there is a need for moderation in the stated community (has no mod right now)
P.S. : i support @cm0002@lemmy.world for this task
Thanks!
Also @MrKaplan@lemmy.world @lwadmin@lemmy.world @ruud@lemmy.world
I have edited this post with a proposed set of rules that I would mod by for your review
I support @cm0002@lemmy.world for mod.
It's always been a trolling community. From posting articles written by Tyler Durden (of Fight Club fame) to a mod that would ban you for "ableism" and turn around and say all liberals are infected with the woke mind virus, the community did not further conservative ideas. They wanted to present themselves as a space for respectful discussions but there was no respect. Just one side and a ban if you didn't stay in line no matter how egregious the claims that were made in the post.
The previous mod knew this. That's why he was diligent to ensure that server admins never saw any reports. It became an echo chamber with extreme viewpoints that frankly the offline Republicans I know IRL don't want to interface with.
If not cm0002, then go ahead and shut it down.
I support this change as well. You have my vote.
I'm the technical death metal album Skullgrid and I approve this message.
Hi cm0002,
did you see this comment from:
admin = = kersploosh
from 6 days ago,
at https://lemmy.world/comment/15214408text of comment
(...) The mods at !conservative@sh.itjust.works also look like they have left Lemmy.
If anyone seriously feels like moderating a conservative community (without burning it to the ground for teh lulz) there are plenty of job openings.
Lmao not even the conservatives want to mod the conservative comms 😂
Regarding !conservative@lemmy.world, let's give it a shot. Right now Lemmy has three prominent conservative communities, none of them have been great, and all three are unmoderated at the moment. We might as well try something new. You are now the mod of the community. Best of luck!
I gave you !fastfood@lemmy.world, too. It definitely looks like it was created by a spam bot.
Awesome news! Thank you, I'll do my best to keep things in order and humorous 🫡
i have also thrown my hat near the ring https://lemmy.world/post/26104566
i second this motion.
also, to @remon@ani.social
i see your position and i suggest you also moderate that community. Otherwise, just let others do it and react later if necessary.i see your position and i suggest you also moderate that community
Oh, I really don't want to, sorry.
@cm0002@lemmy.world for
Presidentmod!I still think conservatives deserve a place on Lemmy and in Lemmy.world where incivility and misinformation can be properly moderated.
The pervious mods of the conservative communities have proven they can’t be fair and unbiased.
If you look at their hilariouschaos community you can see they are still heavy-handed and thin-skinned more apt to moderate based on feelings than fact.
I’m still volunteering to run this and/or lemm.ee’s community as a proper conservative community.
I see your point, but last I saw there were (excluding .worlds one) 2 "proper" conservative comms and 2 instances (comms on .ee, SJW and for instances HilariousChaos and iirc reddthat) and those are just what showed up from a quick search which is kinda unreliable sometimes so there are likely more
The way I envisioned it was that eventually would try to reign in one of the others and this one would just be the parody meme comm focused on conservatives (globally too! Conservative ideals aren't just confined to the US) with !politicalmemes@lemmy.world serving as a more generalist political meme comm and .ee/SJWs versions serving as the "proper/ serious" comms (should reasonable conservative talking point be found)
Please count my vote supporting @cm0002@lemmy.world in his or her application as a mod of this instance
.world c/conservative is unmodded now too! Post all the things they hate!
OPs post history makes it very clear he doesn't actually want to mod that community in good faith.
I spoke about this in another thread, but it seems like a very delicate balancing act to find the right moderator for that kind of community. To be a conservative is to be tolerant of fascists and Neo-Nazis to some degree. In the current political climate, it is inevitable that any right-leaning community will have elements of these abhorrent ideologies. I don't think fascists and Neo-Nazis should be tolerated to exist in any space. No community as a whole is made safer by their presence, quite the opposite. So any moderator of a conservative community either must not be a conservative themselves or be one of the seemingly minority of conservatives that utterly disavow nationalists and bigotry, but this would put them in a position of poorly representing the community they moderate.
It's a tricky situation. And I'm not sure if there's a solution that both makes sense and permits a conservative community to exist.
To be a conservative is to be tolerant of fascists and Neo-Nazis to some degree
That is unfortunatly the truth for a lot of conservative parties around the world these days, but I don't agree that one personally has to do that to be a conservative. So I really disagree with that sentiment.
However I do agree that it is a very tricky situation indeed.
Half the problem is that the word fascist is completely overused. And the other half is a lot of people on Lemmy here convinced themselves that deporting illegal immigrants is fascism, when it simply isn't.
Trump is not a fascist, never was.
Frankly, Lemmy is not a place for differing opinions, it's a place for the far left to circlejerk.
All I want to see out of this is honesty. If it's not for conservatives, then don't act like it is.
I have not posted any misinformation, I have pledged to clear up known misinformation spreader links such as Breitbart
I didn't say you did. But you spend the entire morning spamming the community with memes intended to troll the members, exploiting the fact that it was unmodded and breaking rule 6. That's not behaviour becoming of a mod anywhere and certainly not in a community which you ideologically oppose.
But hey, not my decision, just providing some background info.
Obviously not. There is no such thing as a conservative that acts in good faith in the first place.
I'd rather that community be shutdown and locked then turned into a meme community antagonizing the group it's named for.
locked then turned into a meme community antagonizing the group it's named for.
I get what you're saying, but this specific group already does this to scale. Truth Social is an entire major SM company that, while not explicitly stated, serves to "own the libs*
Even on the Fediverse there are whole Lemmy/mastodon instances dedicated to "owning the libs", even this very community has allowed meme/mockery posts to "own the libs"
Why are we not allowed to have a comm that does the same as long as it's kept reasonable (i.e. no targeted attacks of a specific user)?
"Taking the high road" has utterly failed with this group as they have demonstrated time and time again from nationwide down to hyper localized communities, that they will take advantage of that.
Or, you could just block it and move on with life like an adult.
cm0002 can NOT do that. He lives online, yet calls other people who post a lot, "trolls." lol