Hey everyone, I requested to become a moderator for this community since the old moderator didn’t appear to be active anymore.

I’m looking to start up some events/contests/competitions. I’d like to offer occasional rewards like gear, gift cards, or game packages, however, certain countries have restrictions regarding this and I’m not experienced in handling that. Any suggestions here are welcome.

I’m also looking to clean up the rules, since a number of them seem redundant or may be too limiting for a community of this size, any feedback here would be great.

Also, I like the current banner/icon, but again, if anyone has suggestions we can put out some options to the community and see what everyone likes the most.

Any other suggestions are welcome, for instance, we can look at adding flairs in the community, although this may only work for certain clients.

Lastly, if anyone else wants to help moderate, feel free to ask below.

  • @QuadratureSurferOPMEnglish
    3•5 days ago

    I feel like the number of active users here (and I do mean active, not just up/downvoting submissions) is a bit low for that

    Very true. I am hoping to boost engagement with this, but it would be a little early to do anything big.

    I like your idea of a contest for a banner replacement. I have also seen other communities do things like “Photography Themed” competitions where the winner gets to pick the next theme.

    We could eventually do some sort of racing competition where we just submit screenshots of our best time and the winner gets to pick the next race location/rules.

    Flairs are still getting worked on for Lemmy (there will be “user flairs” and “post tags” where posts can have multiple tags) Post tags: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/317 User flair: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/1456

    I saw some potential workarounds, but they only work with specific clients and, looking into it more, it makes more sense to just wait until Lemmy officially supports them.

    It doesn’t hurt to come up with ideas for now or we can just hold off until these features are officially supported. I’m not sure if users will be able to put in their own text yet, but it sounds like we will be able to create some pre-made ones for the community.

    Choosing favorite manufacturers seems to be popular, we could probably even throw in some event specific ones for the current story that’s unfolding: Citizens for Prosperity (CFP), Headhunters (HH), Frontier Fighters (FF), Xenothreat (XT) etc.

    Honestly, moderating isn’t something I had on my to do list. I don’t see any posts/comments in here that would have required moderation so far, but there’s always a chance that something could happen in the future. My expectations are very low right now for any other moderators. It would be good to have at least one other person to help out. I’ll give it a week or so and check back in if no one else has offered to help out. Thanks!

    • @Essence_of_Meh
      3•5 days ago

      Sounds like a good plan for a start. As long as community doesn’t suddenly explode with activity there should be plenty of time to brainstorm ideas on what to do with it. Especially if more people gets involved in this discussion.