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New Moderator Code of Conduct Input

Hello Lemmy moderators!

The Lemmy.World administrator team is planning to release a Moderator Code of Conduct for Lemmy soon.

Even though there will be some basic principles we will follow, which can be found here, we still need your valuable input. We'd like to hear your suggestions on what to add to this Code of Conduct, as you know best about what you want and need.

This Code of Conduct would lay out the official rules, set principles and goals for Lemmy.World moderators, and for any other instance that wishes to follow it.

With Love,
The Lemmy.World Administrator (Team)

36 comments

  • Do you best to identify personal bias before moderating content (ie political oposition). Echo chambers are discouraged but poor behavior is not to be tolerated. IMO.

  • Ban / Remove content with a reason and put it in the reason textfield. ( So no "." or "bruh", rather "Rule 1 - Insulted a fellow member" ... )

    • Avoid permanent bans and use progressive bans instead. 24 hour ban, 3 day ban, 7 day ban etc.. permanent bans just lead to the user making a different account and not learning from their mistake.

      • at first I was gonna disagree with

        Avoid permanent bans

        but your point on

        permanent bans just lead to the user making a different account and not learning from their mistake.

        makes a lot of sense👍

        permanent bans probably makes sense when the person reapeatedly fails to learn after a couple of progressive bans(/suspensions?)

      • I disagree with this. There are some offenses from which we can't reasonably expect people to "learn" from - bigotry, death threats, doxxing, spambotting, ban evasion. These are what permanent bans are most often handed out for anyway. If I saw someone drop a slur in my community, my vote would be to permanently ban them.

      • Leemy at this time doesn't support temp bans.

      • Leemy at this time doesn't support temp bans.

  • I think one thing that will be important to stop this place from encountering the same pitfalls as Reddit (I know people are tired of hearing about em, but given the 1:1 similarities between Reddit and Lemmy, I think it bears mentioning) is to put a handle on the reach any one moderator can have. Moderators should be encouraged to mod communities that they have an interest in and not "collect" mod positions. This is not a problem now, but I foresee it being a problem in the future if the place grows. Limits on the number of communities one person can moderate at once may be good, or something more nebulous referring to good-faith moderation practices.

  • Will we still to allowed to phrase comment removals as [the rule they broke] + [snarky comment]?

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