What would people like to see ongoing? The daily threads are good, does anyone have ideas for what topics or do you want to mirror the CasualUK standards?
I find myself looking back on a week ago as if it was a whole other age of the world. Logged in to lemmy.world for the first ever time, saw you'd created this place 24 minutes prior, it was like it was meant to be 😢
I occasionally got frustrated with how trigger happy the mods over at the Place That Shall Not Be Named were on CasualUK. Posts that promoted some fun discussion and were upvoted after the first couple of minutes of them going up were still deleted and deemed as "moaning" or "low effort".
Perhaps a clearer definition of "low effort" might be "it took you 10 seconds and everyone ignored it", and rather than a ban against moaning, perhaps we might ban "boring moaning". If the moan is entertaining, satirical, prompts engagement it should be left alone.
I think the most important rules is the "no politics" one. Personally, I have GAD and need to avoid news for my mental health. Casual UK has helped me feel that I'm interacting with community/society without having that interaction polluted by politics.
Yes I agree. It's kind of amazing how politics can ruin a conversation. Especially online. I find that can happen even if I loosely agree with the other person.
What I observed over the years in that Other Place is that communities could be more-or-less self-regulating until they reached a critical size - after that they would have to either be heavily moderated or turn to crap. We're nowhere near that size here, and perhaps we'll never be (which is not necessarily a bad thing).
I expect most of those rules and moderation techniques grew out of it being such a large community with just a constant stream of content. We'll have our own struggles here, they may be the same or they may be different, we'll just have to wait and see.
Yes, my thoughts exactly. Its probably due to (a) having 1.5 million users and (b) necessitating lots of individual mods, over-moderation is safer than under-moderation.
If the moan is entertaining, satirical, prompts engagement it should be left alone.
Broadly agree, providing its not too negative / repetitive. Hopefully the community will decide organically.
I am willing this community to grow. Getting to grips with Lemmy is quite the headache, but I hope people will give it a chance and take traffic away from Reddit long-term. Happy to be here watching it unfold.
edit to add: and for what it's worth, I really hope we'll be allowed ducks.
If you have the full community name (like this place is [email protected]) it should come through on search, though it might take a while. Especially if it's a community on a heavily loaded server like lemmy.ml, you may want to try a couple of times, waiting a minute or two in between, so the search gets a chance to resolve.
It's https://lemmy.world/c/gunners I am signed up to the feddit.uk server, I don't understand why UKcasual on the same server works but that one doesn't.
I can view it on browser but the jarboa app can't seem to find it, and I can't seem to log in on the lemmy.world site to subscribe because it won't recognise my details from feddit.uk.
It's weird because when I view the website I can view it and I can see the user that made me aware of it has many posts, but when I view his history on the jerboa app to add it it doesn't show his posts.
I believe it's in the public interest to reopen both the skon-scown and the roll-bap-cob debates. Civil war to put in place the rules we plan to follow going forward, what!
I remember when I was a kid we moved from Newcastle to Scotland and I swear it took my Mum years to get used to saying rolls instead of buns. I wonder how many iced buns she had to go through before getting it right.