Hi all,

I’m an admin on lemmy.blahaj.zone, /196’s home instance. I’m not a member of /196, and I’m not familiar with its history. However, I’m seeing a LOT of reports coming through that aren’t being actioned by community mods.

It looks like the original mod has deleted their account, and the remaining mod hasn’t been active since their initial post 2 days ago.

What I’m hoping to see is that @threegnomes logs back in, appoints some mods and gets things under control.

But should that not happen, I’m going to need to step in and appoint some mods myself

Either way, if you’re interested in being a mod, please reply below. I (and hopefully @threegnomes) will look at everyone that gets lots of community support (via upvotes or replies) and put some more mods in.

Lots of upvotes doesn’t mean you automatically get the job. I reserve the right to veto candidates that I think are going to create more work rather than reduce it.

  • Silverstrings@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    1 year ago

    I’ll put my name forward as a potential mod but whoever you pick, just please for the love of god make sure they aren’t a tankie. You can usually sus them out by asking about the holodomor or the molotov-ribbentrop pact.

  • altoids0@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    1 year ago

    I can play custodian if you need it. It’d be super lame to see this community get goofed on by spam or bigoted stuff, after managing to regrow so fast.

  • moss@lemmy.worldMEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Hi there, I’m interested in becoming a mod because I run a bunch of events on 196s discord server, as well as run the 195 community here on lemmy as the sole moderator. 195 was originally 196 before this version was created, and has nearly as many active users. I also have a little bit of prior experience moderating on other websites like reddit and discord. (I’m also very much not a tankie) thanks!

      • moss@lemmy.worldMEnglish
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        1 year ago

        Do I need to make a separate account to moderate a community on a different instance? This account is on Lemmy.world

        • Ada@lemmy.blahaj.zoneOPEnglish
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          1 year ago

          I just sent a new report through for your post saying “test report”. That should appear soon in the shield icon notifications at the top of the page

          • moss@lemmy.worldMEnglish
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            1 year ago

            I didn’t get it. I also don’t see 196 in my mod list on my profile. Are you sure you added me?

            • Ada@lemmy.blahaj.zoneOPEnglish
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              1 year ago

              You’re showing as a mod on my end. I wonder if it’s a version issue? We haven’t upgraded to 17.3 or 17.4 yet.