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The Sync for Lemmy community needs new moderators! Come join our mod team to help us provide a safe and supportive environment.

Moderator tasks would mostly be enforcing lemmy.world's rules, which can be found here.

If you would like to join our team, please reply to this post or message me with your time zone and availability.

Hello everyone! As a lot of us may have noticed, this community was locked for a while. Well, just like we announced here 5 days ago, we've set it free again! Let's help this community thrive and keep it an amazing space together.

From now on, you may post and participate here any time you wish. Though please feel encouraged to follow the community rules, which you can read from the sidebar.

We will be looking for new moderators, and holding regular events here from now on. If you would like to become a moderator here, then please feel free to comment. If you have a sweet new banner or icon for us, then please feel very free to comment. If you have a suggestion for a nice event to have, then please feel very very free to comment! May our future be in peace with all.

Thank you for being here! Cheers :)

Hello everyone! Here is a list of banners that were designed & offered to the community by our valued member @[email protected]:

Hello everyone! Here is another one of our threads where we give feedback to you & expect feedback back. Let's keep building an amazing space together!

It's been a really sweet week, and we're happy to see this community getting closer to maturity! Thank you to all our members who's been with us so far, and a special thank you to the admins who helped our team deal with a spam attack of reports this week.

What Changed This Week

• Rules 7 & 10 now have their own documentation & feedback thread. You can view these links by clicking on the said rules.
• A majority of this community's rules are now also applied in; [email protected], [email protected], [email protected]

That was about it for the last week. We'd also like to announce that we're moving our moderation bot from Matrix to Discord, and this will allow us to moderate by using action buttons there.

What change would you like to see in this community? Let us know!

Please let us know any questions and concerns you may have. Let's keep working together to help make this an amazing space!

Matrix Chat Room

To find & join our chat room for casual discussion and support, log into a matrix client and put #nostupidquestions:matrix.org on the search bar. If you've never used Matrix before, we suggest you try using fluffychat.im first, as it has a more user-friendly interface.

One new moderator will be added to the team.

Please keep in mind that this team moderates several communities together, and so we would need a little bit more of your time than the average Lemmy community.

Volunteers are welcome to message me or comment on this post with your time zone & availability. Cheers! :)

Let's get together and make a nice icon to decorate our community. All input appreciated!

Hello everyone! Welcome to Today I Learned.

This community just changed management(the prior one was inactive), and we're here to say hello! You might be familiar with our mod team from c/nostupidquestions or c/youshouldknow. Most of the same rules will apply here.

Let's work together to help this community space thrive, and help spread knowledge! Please feel free to let us know any concerns or questions you may have regarding our approach and rules, and let's work together to make this an amazing community.

This post is a part of the series NSQ Posting Guidelines, and aims to further explain & clarify the implications of this rule, and how it takes effect. It is not definite, and may be improved by any moderator upon any time of need.

Rule 7 is one of those rules that we take very seriously, and is the only way a human member may be removed without any warning. Before diving further, let's recall what the rule exactly says, as listed in our sidebar:

This is how it is listed in our sidebar, and we'd like to think it succesfully presents our main approach. To further clarify each section of it and avoid confusion, let's take a closer look together.

The First Paragraph

If you vocally harass or discriminate against any individual member, you will be removed.

Now, what does "vocally" exactly mean here? Anything you publicly expressed in this community counts as vocally expressing it. This may be via creating a post, commenting, using your username/display name, or your avatar to communicate your views on various things.

How do we determine what counts as harassment and discrimination?

If a participant attempts to vocally persecute, call names at, disrespect opinions of, patronise, or knowingly offend another participant, then it will be considered to be harassment.

Likewise, if a participant vocally attempts to harass, isolate, deny essential rights to, bully, or deny the existence of another participant based on their personal(or inherited) qualities, then it will be considered to be discrimination.

The Second Paragraph

Likewise, if you are a member, sympathiser or a resemblant of a movement that is known to largely hate, mock, discriminate against, and/or want to take lives of a group of people, and you were provably vocal about your hate, then you will be banned on sight.

Even though this paragraph is fairly self-explanatory, there are some clarifications to be made to prevent confusion.

By "movement" here, we mean a group of people who share the same beliefs, worldviews and aims.

By "provably vocal" here, we mean that a moderator must have proof of behavior that a specific member has broken Rule 7, and must be able to present it to other moderators upon request, and if our members wish, to the community.

Set to be improved upon being tested.

Thanks for reading! Do you have any questions, concerns or suggestions in mind regarding this rule? Please feel free to let us know.

Hello everyone. Let's take a second to appreciate some unseen workers here, huh?

Even though we're all newbies as we are, most of the Fediverse has solidarity here, including Lemmy and kBin. And a crushing majority is set to never tolerate toxicity. Same with anything without transparency.

You made this happen, we did, all our admins did, together. And hopefully it will become the norm and the culture. We've all seen how much time some people dedicated here, to make actual communities happen, and to keep them safe from bad actors. Thank you to all the admins, to our breathtaking moderators at c/nostupidquestions, thank you to every community that partnered with one another, and thank you to everyone who supported them!

Remember: don't let the stress get to you. You can always consolidate ideas with one another or with us, and make it a friendly experience rather than a stressful one. Keep your IRL habits healthy, and never place this over your mental health. You come first, and your job and friends come first. And I hope you take care.

Cheers. ;)

Here is a list of bots that are allowed (to comment) in this community. Bots aren't allowed to create posts. If you do not see your bot in this list and it's not a new one, then that means we consider it to be malicious and don't want it here.

To have your helpful bot included in this list, please contact our moderators for a review.

The Whitelist

Hello everyone! To start out, I'd once again like to say thank you to every single one of you for being here. We're building something awesome here together, and I'm grateful you've been with us so far.

Let's go over the changes we made this past week, and tell you about our fresh moderation bot to clear any concerns you may have.

Changes in the Sidebar

You might have noticed that we made some changes in the sidebar; specifically to our list of rules. The formatting has completely changed to adopt spoilers for rules, which now allows you to expand rules on click, instead of seeing an unkept wall of text in our sidebar.

This means that we now also have a lot more empty text space in the sidebar. Some rules still need further elobaration to fill their empty slots & we'd always appreciate your help and suggestions!

New Tools for Community Moderators

This community is now a month old! And that comes with new updates to help us moderate & navigate easier. We now have a new AutoMod deployed, though its interaction with members will be kept to a minimum. It mainly does three things: notifying, logging and transcripting. It does not censor any words and doesn't intervene with our users in any way.

The bot works by transcripting and linking all of the content to a dedicated matrix chatroom(used as a log). This allows moderators to just take a look at the log to make sure everything is okay, rather than scrolling through posts one by one. It also redirects all reports to a seperate chatroom, which is normally used by our moderators to communicate and work together. Moderators can also make the bot send transcripts of comment chains on command, so they can discuss what to do about it together.

note: much thanks to our hardworking moderator @[email protected] for the bot!

Let us know! How do you like everything here?

Let's improve our list of rules together, and please let us know any concerns you may have regarding the bot & our approach to moderating. We really want this community to be one truly owned by its users, meaning you, and nothing in this c/ comes before that.

Matrix Chat Room

To find & join our chat room for casual discussion and support, log into a matrix client and put #nostupidquestions:matrix.org on the search bar. If you've never used Matrix before, we suggest you try using fluffychat.im first, as it has a more user-friendly interface.

The website icon has changed, name changed to Israel, and the site title now includes a slur.

Anyone, if you know anything, please let the rest of us know.

edit: Most things seem to be okay now.

Edit 2: we are under attack again.