Thanks, I got rid of that… weirdness, lol. It really is tough moderating the way it’s set up today.

I do agree with encrypting if we ultimately give it the green light.

Really my intent was to simplify the rules list while also trying to keep the tone clear enough to a new user.

On r/SC we have the Daily Discussion thread which is meant to be the catch-all for the low-effort type questions but we don’t have the volume (or automation) for that, but others mention some themed threads posted on certain weekdays might be a better avenue for that. Still am leaning towards sticking the memes over in the microblogging area. Folks are used to not seeing them anyway, but why not give it a little corner of its own.

Thanks for your ideas & input though, feel free to toss in any other ideas. (And bless you for your hatred of clickbait and vagueposting)

I am learning more about this every day - the microblogging area sounds perfect for the low effort stuff. We can discuss what we do and don’t allow in terms of low effort but that is great potential for keeping things cleaner.

As for the pirated/illegal streams - I’ll investigate if the host has an issue with it (as this “lives” on kbin.social, so that would be like “the admins” on Reddit). Considering I enjoy sailing the high seas myself I’d be open to it, if it’s allowed.

I’m doing some reading up as there is no moderation queue for moderators - only the OWNER can see what has been reported, and that’s Kitty at the moment. What I can do as a moderator is if I am reading posts/threads and find something reported, I can see that it has been reported and take action. But that’s the only way I’ll find it.

I’ll talk to Kitty to see if they want to transfer ownership to me so I have a mod queue. I’m terminally online (I have something like 4000 mod actions a month on Reddit) and knowing I can actually get reports will remind me to check a few times a day. From there I can add other mods but they’ll be restricted to the stumbling method (or, can outright remove things they find on their own), but can also pin and if they want to do something fun with the instance beyond general conversation, we can get that going.

We’ve been lucky in that so far I’ve found two things that warranted removal.

I do agree with you. I’ll sidebar with Kitty at some point, if nothing else than because I know they know most of the folks here from Discord & can help with recommendations who to invite.

In the meantime I’ll also do some more digging and see what I can learn, as I really hope there’s more that I simply have not discovered yet, and would like to get additional mods started on the right foot.

I’m technically here! I have the tab open! I just don’t check over here enough.

Part of the thing is - moderating on Kbin is just… removing stuff. When people report, it goes into the void - there’s no queue out there of reported things for me to attend to. Does it go to the server admins? I have no idea. The mod log shows actions I’ve taken – which is one comment removal to test reports to see where they show up. They didn’t show up anywhere, I had to manually hunt it down. Literally if anything else has been reported in the last month, it doesn’t show anywhere for me. I have no alerts.

IF SOMEONE KNOWS OTHERWISE where this content is hiding, please let me know!

But yeah. Once that gets figured out, it makes sense to add more mods. But if this is really how it works, moderating means reading every post every day hunting for material as your reports mean nothing. And I thought Reddit moderation was terrible…

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