this post was submitted on 28 Jan 2025
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For things that are "hmmm".
Rule 1: All post titles except for meta posts should be just plain "hmmm" and nothing else, no emotes, no capitalisation, no extending it to "hmmmm" etc.
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The point isn't moderating for the sake of moderating but moderating for the sake of actually distinguishing the communities in content. I can put out a point that posting to a community for the sake of posting isn't great either. There needs to be a balance but it's hard to get it correctly sometimes. What's the point of c/mildyinfuriating when very infuriating stuff gets posted there? What's the point of c/technology when it's just politics? And so on. The concept of communities is to divide the content into chunks where people can pick and follow their preference but if there's no moderation then that kills the concept behind it because each community would be one and the same. What I'm trying to say is that because there are mods that aren't moderating "properly" depending on the perspective it's not a good argument to not moderate anything anymore. Lemmy is already heavily unmoderated anyway as it is and focusing on engagement over allowing people to have their feeds be catered to their preferences isn't ideal imo. Additionally I think that being unable to create a feed of stuff you like hurts the engagement more long-term because that's the point of platforms like lemmy anyway to have topic centered communities.
E: For example I'm enforcing the "hmmm" title rule. If I were to give it up and allow whatever titles people want the community would lose a lot of personality and there wouldn't be fun of figuring out things in picture for yourself anymore.
I agree and disagree with different parts of what you're saying. It comes down to context really.
Going to /c/Technology, and posting about politics can be still be valid. For example, I read a headline that trump is using AI to create large amounts of new bills to overwhelm our political system which is intentionally designed to work at a snails pace. I haven't read the article, but if I'm understanding right, it's both a tech story, and a political story. It could aldo be posted in FuckAI.
But if someone posted something in /c/Technology where the story was Bernie Sanders supports bill to cancel student debt, that's not a tech story.
But as seen before, there are some things that can fit into multiple communities of different types.
I just base it on "is there a discussion that can be had on our topic based on our community?". If yes, and it's not something that causes issues, let it roll.
I agree with the general spirit of what you're saying, but not the tone, if that makes sense. I just feel it's a case of let some leniency through, for the sake of not gatekeeping a small growing platform. Even maybe let some smaller infractions slide if it's not actually hurting anyone.
Yeah, I just threw some examples about why the moderation is still needed even if the posts aren't malicious and gave a bad example there. It's just that I see a lot of posts with big traction in communities where the content doesn't fit even if you stretch it so I shared my perspective on why this is an issue.