This should help us cut down on the trolls. We recommend other instances do the same, because they will likely be targeted also.

I apologize for all their gore-posts as well, no one should have to see that. We’ll try to look for more admins from different time-zones as well to get them faster.

The two other possibilities we have currently as options, are turning on required email verification, and as a last resort, closing signups. I personally would rather not do either, but they are options.

Many thanks to @k_o_t@lemmy.ml and @AgreeableLandscape@lemmy.ml for banning those trolls.

  • @Echedenyan@lemmy.ml
    2•3 years ago

    What does a person need to apply as admin or moderator? (this last one in general communities driven by admins or thought at site level like asklemmy)

    • @AgreeableLandscape@lemmy.ml
      4•3 years ago

      This is just my opinion:

      Must haves:

      • A history of quality activity on Lemmy.ml or another instance we federate with, such as amicable discussion, links to reputable web resources, etc.

      • Frequently online. I’d say at least once a day is ideal, but I also understand that you’re a volunteer, and will reasonably have other things going on where you might be missing for several days or otherwise intermittent at times.

      • An interest in helping to develop the Lemmy community and ecosystem.

      • No recent violation of instance rules or Lemmy project code of conduct.

      Nice to have but optional:

      • History of reporting rule breaking content, particularly spam.

      • Has provided inputs on Lemmy development or the the direction the Lemmy community is going.

      • Already a moderator of a community, or an admin on another instance (we will use your moderation history to assess your application).

      • Activity on the Lemmy Matrix rooms (please Link your Matrix).

      • Activity on the Lemmy project GitHub or other source control site that Lemmy is on, either as a code contributor or making/discussing pull requests (please Link your GitHub/other source control website).

      It would also help to specify your time zone and the languages you know.

      • @Echedenyan@lemmy.ml
        4•3 years ago

        Must haves:

        • To check by you if my history is enough
        • I connect to Lemmy.ml three times a day at minimum to read mostly.
        • Yes, I have. I use to try to even promote Lemmy here but it is difficult given the main focus in English content (by now).
        • To check too.
        • No

        Optional:

        • To check as I don’t track myself on that since recently.
        • I think I can say that I did and do.
        • No, never thought on applying until now. I was not sure if I could hold the responsibility.
        • I am not in Lemmy Official Matrix room(s), I only helped to mount the unofficial spanish one ( https://matrix.to/#/#lemmy-es:mozilla.org ) and my Matrix account is @echedeylr:mozilla.org.
        • A little but my account is https://github.com/EchedeyLR.

        Timezone: one less than Nutomic’s one

        Languages: Spanish and English (not native, B1 certified)