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 ;-)

  • @FearTheCron
    1•2 years ago

    Thanks for the guidelines, any suggestions for communities that don’t have enough moderators yet? I started a back country skiing community but it’s really not the time of year for such a thing to get attention. I have a note on the sidebar to recruit moderators, but I doubt the interest will be there until December or so.

    Edit: to be clear, I have no experience as a mod. I am learning as I go. Back country skiing is a pretty small community in general, the Reddit sub only had one mod after 12 years. I see the need for more mods and I have a call out for them, but I don’t know how long it will take.

      • @FearTheCron
        2•2 years ago

        Thanks I will post there and see how it goes. I wonder if it may be better to restart the community in the winter though.

        Edit, I notice this is on lemmynsfw and most of the posts are for nsfw communities. It’s there a version for generally sfw communities? I am still having some trouble understanding sfw/nsfw best practices…