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.
Kbin SquaredCircle - looking for rules feedback!
Hi everyone, absentee mod here! Looking to not be so absentee going forward.
When this magazine was kicked off, it was essentially cloned from the SquaredCircle subreddit. However, a lot of rules there were put in place because of the immense volume of traffic -- the sub needed curation to weed out a bunch of meh posts and those who were karma-seeking. But we don't need to mirror that, and in fact, it may be better to open the doors a bit so that more people feel comfortable posting new threads.
We wouldn't be looking to change the rules related to civility, trolling, hate speech, or spoilers. But feel free to leave your feedback on your thoughts on these other rules:
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Derailing a thread: I'm not sure that rule is needed -- if the conversation becomes uncivil, that's its own rule broken.
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Low effort: we're not enforcing this much now as it stands with low volume, but give your thoughts on post quality concerns. Personally I wouldn't want to keep single responses that are easily found on a Google search, but beyond that, where to draw the line?
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Memes: some people love that r/SC didn't allow them and kept them contained to another subreddit. Do you have thoughts on memes?
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Not related to wrestling: we could change this definition. Politics are allowed on r/SC. Personal photos with wrestlers are not. Where would you like to see the line drawn?
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Clickbait/vague titles: do you want to see those continue to be removed? This somewhat falls under the quality discussion.
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Sexualized content: I don't see this changing (as in, none) but hey, let your thoughts known
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Sources: I think we should keep the same sources banned as on r/SC because they have harassed and doxxed users in the past -- they're banned for everyone's benefit. The other rule was "link to the primary source" instead of an article/tweet quoting another article, with the exception being original transcripts of podcasts. Any thoughts on this?
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Any rules we don't have but should?
Feel free to voice any other opinions (I know there have been conversations about mods in general, I'm working on that) but moderating starts with rules, so let's hear your thoughts!
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...