cross-posted from: https://discuss.online/post/14195662

This is in regards to the brand-new [email protected] community.

And by more serious discussions I mean e.g. the legality of the recent jury nullification issue, which I don’t want to allow if I were a moderator in it.

If you say yes you will be granted the community “ownership” as the sole moderator. I’ve only been a mod myself on Lemmy for less than a day but we’ll figure out how to transfer it to you. You can ofc always add new mods and change it however you like after that. The advantage here is chiefly that you get the community “name” AskUSA, whereupon I could later create e.g. a CasualUSA but you would have the privileges of that specific name, to match the style of e.g. AskUK or AskLemmy (or AskScience or AskMen or AskElectronics or AskAndroid etc. - there are so many here using that style:-).

I don’t want to be involved in something that is going to constantly be depressing to me, though I do recognize the need for such and am offering the community “name” if someone else wants to pick up that mantle.

While if nobody says yes then I suppose I’ll just keep it going in the more CasualUSA light-hearted style, until such time as someone does. Either way I’ll offer to help grow it by posting and commenting to it regularly - unless you want me to stop b/c I tend to be really bad at guessing what people want to see (e.g. personally I love John Oliver and also got involved in the Reddit protests, so why people are downvoting sexy pics of JO on Lemmy of all places… I seriously have no clue).

The community also needs moderators to help in general - so even if you don’t want to take it over, would you like to help moderate it if it were to remain a more casual, light-hearted community?

  • @[email protected]MEnglish
    2•14 hours ago

    If you’re still looking for someone to take ownership, I’d be up for trying it out. I’ve only modded low-traffic communities until now, but I’m willing to try it out and find a new owner if it’s too much for me

    • @[email protected]OPMEnglish
      2•14 hours ago

      1. congratulations, you are now a mod:-) You won’t be able to view mod reports though (until ~0.20 of the Lemmy software, as Nutomic put it onto the roadmap for that version) unless you create an account on this instance. If you want to do that - I highly recommend it - you’ll need to make a comment or post, then click the 3 ellipses and add yourself as a mod, or reply to me here with the new account and I’m happy to do it. We should also figure out how to communicate - I mentioned here that we could create a Matrix (I just created an account on element.io) room somewhere? (but haven’t done so yet)

      2. the 2 admins of Discuss.Online have since clarified on this post, especially this comment that the more extreme types of stuff that Blaze was asking for - like whether it is allowed to say that UE healthcare CEOs should be killed (morally speaking) - are explicitly not allowed on this instance. I get that there’s a need to talk about and vent this kind of emotional processing, but that cannot happen here, entirely separately from whether it should be allowed anywhere or my own desire to avoid too much stress in my life:-). So if you likewise were wanting that, we could look into migrating the community elsewhere? But I think it would be problematic no matter where it is located, and I think there’s a LOT of value to having an AskUSA that doesn’t delve into such controversial topic material? So with the help of you and the 2 other mods, I wouldn’t mind staying in that case, b/c we’ve have sufficient support to handle anything that came our way, so long as we continued to uphold the rules of Discuss.Online to keep things friendly (if no longer necessarily always remaining light-hearted). BTW I initially thought about creating an AskUSA on midwest.social, but completely aside from the controversy surrounding the main admin there (which regardless of your thoughts on the subject, would lower the traffic as some people have apparently decided to boycott that instance), the name of it being “midwest” makes it more regional, as opposed to Discuss.Online’s being much more open to so many more people (including outside the USA, but more relevantly here also including everyone from any particular region inside of it). Although then it will have to avoid such topics as whether or not it is okay for people to laud the CEO’s murder. But do feel free to let me know any thoughts you may have, if you want to create another community or for us all to help mod this one, or whatever?