Hi there.

A short introduction: This is an alt account. I’m a moderator here who has been unhappy with the state of news/political discussions here for a long time. The admins have kindly given me the opportunity to see if we can make some improvement the community here.

We will be doing some major revision of the rules left by the previous moderators and will use discussions in this thread as feedback on the direction we should take our community.

This will be an open discussion on the state of our community, the rules and our moderation practices. Feel free to give your inputs.

My goal is to foster thoughtful discussion in our community, and not let this place be a replica of r/politics.

First order of business, immediate rule change.

On !politics@lemmy.world, effectively immediately, we will no longer restrict political discussion to the politics of the United States of America. Discussion regarding of the state of politics from around the world is now welcome.

I will leave this pinned for 1-2 weeks for our team to take feedback and make our proposals then.

  • Might Be@lemmy.worldOP
    62·
    11 months ago

    Good to talk to you again. You are one of my favorite accounts on Lemmy.

    Are the mods thinking transforming this community into something like “ask politics”-type format?

    Article submissions are still very much welcome here, but I would like to expand this place so that we have more discussion among the community on political topics. So, a bit of both.

    I do want to foster a culture of thoughtful discussion here, and that needs to originate from our power submitter such as yourself. If you put in effort in your submission, then the comment section will be encouraged to make effort as well.

    I don’t think a weekly highlighting would be necessary, because I think we should all read more and be more informed on politics before we comment. Still thinking about what we should do here.

    • MicroWave@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5·
      11 months ago

      Thanks for the recognition and appreciate your thoughts.

      Let me clarify about the weekly highlighting suggestion. A post from the mods along the lines of “What was the top comment you read this week?” and people can link them in the comments. That’s just an example of something to acknowledge commenters who put time and effort into their responses. Politics is dirty and usually pretty negative, so if there’s somebody wading through the crap to provide some clarity and discussion, we should focus on that positivity. Maybe that’s a bit idealistic, but just a thought.

      Modding is tough work, so thanks for doing it.