Hi everyone.
It has been a while since last community update, as the old moderation team mostly vanished, and I was for a while the only moderator still active. A lot happened since then, and it is time to get the community back running at optimal pace.
New moderators
First, I’d like to welcome two new (temporary) moderator, that will help me moderating while we reform the community and examine permanent moderator applications.
- u/JonsJava : You may already know him as the moderator of !gaming@lemmy.world, a video game focused community
- u/fxomt@lemmy.dbzer0.com (and its moderation alt, فكسومت مدمر العوالم, aka u/modfxomt)
If you wish to help moderate this community, feel free to PM me in order to candidate to be a moderator for this community.
Sidebar rewrite
I took some time to rewrite the sidebar to better reflect the community evolution.
I added two new section:
- “Authorized Regular Threads”, which are allowed to be post on a regular basis as long as they respect the rules
- “Related communities”, which contains links to other games related communities. Feel free to PM me to add more of them
I also added links to a git repo to each rule, which point to the current ruleset. Currently all of them points to the same root anchor, but in the near future, every rule will point to their specific section. This will allow to give a lot more detail, as well as examples, without polluting the sidebar.
Community contribution
As a community, I’d like to encourage users to participate in the community. We are not meant to be monolithic, like Reddit was, and we’d like to offer the community the way to better itself, according to its own rules, not some corporate greedy interest.
As such, I’d like to offer you all way to make it your own, with a more democratic approach to moderation. In the following weeks, I’ll post multiple topics about it, from which we will collectively amend our rules to better fit its collectively defined purpose.
This will be done in multiple steps :
- First, we will open a discutions on current rules, in which we will be able to discuss about them, suggest improvements, and maybe create new rules
- The rules will be then internally rewritten in order to respect the community wish while still following LW rules
- The new rules will be individually put to vote. If the total is positive, the rule is adopted, if not, the rule will be bought back in a new discussions/amendment topic, until it reach consensus
Best regards,
u/Dremor
Edit 1 : I continued my work on the sidebar, feel free to give me your feedback on it.
Please, no more “I’m posting screenshots every day because I need attention”
Take your fking screenshots and go to hell already.
You know you just have to block one user to stop seeing them. 😅
Yeah, great, what a super constructive and positive outlook to have. If you mean these kinds of posts where the they share screenshots and the thoughts they’ve had on how the game plays, each day then I’m not sure how you consider that low effort.
I’m guessing you haven’t even clicked on them?
They write a great deal, show how the game feels, express how they’ve enjoyed the games and if they’d recommend them. I consider these posts one of the more valuable we have here in this community. It’s not just a link and a one-liner, they’re writing and sharing their experiences and creativity. Formatted and so well made.
Its insane to me that you’d think this is shit. What would you prefer be posted here?
The screenshots frustrated me too, because I’ve seen that done before where it’s a daily screenshot and nothing else, feels low-effort and annoying and somehow spammy even if it’s still on topic. Although my approach was to just scroll on, especially since it was just another spam post and not outrage-inducing. If it got truly bothersome I could always click the user and block.
Then I actually clicked one and saw the thoughts. They belong here. Wish there was a simple way for the poster to communicate to people like me, who got tired of seeing low-effort “screenshot a day” stuff and will make assumptions, that their posts are more than those and have actual words and effort with them.
@MyNameIsAtticus@lemmy.world needs to change the title to “Daily thoughts: game X, game Y, game Z.” Continually saying “screenshot” each time is misleading and does legitimately sound spammy and annoying. A simple title change would be so much better.
I have actually thought about this! I’ve changed the name a couple times before. Usually I have people asking about it the name change though. I’m considering doing it after I reach a year, I might do it sooner though after seeing someone else now after seeing someone else say the same thing.
I like the daily screen posts even though I don’t play console at all.
It adds a positive vibe to the community.
I like them…