If you are willing and able to help moderate this community please reach out in the comments below!
I am EST, other timezones are preferred but not necessary.
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What we're looking for--
Being a news community, moderating here is essential. Moderation of news preferably requires leaving personal biases aside and allowing otherwise relevant content to stay up even if you disagree with it. Also, posting from less biased sources is always preferred.
Quite a few (part of the reason I need moderators to join). Most of them don't have much content, and I generally snagged a bunch to help seed them and get them off the ground. I've passed ownership of a couple off already though.
Yeah, I get you. I started four myself and stopped because that's the most I could reasonably handle. I'm actually thinking of adding mods to one of the ones that is getting pretty busy.
Yeah, if they were all super active communities that I moderate it'd be too much, but most of them have little to no content without me seeding them. I've mostly added mods or am now looking for mods in the ones that actually gained some steam, but still I don't think the load is unreasonable (yet)
I've triple checked, but I have gotten zero reports in any of the communities I mod. What about you?
I can help moderate News if you like. I also moderate https://lemmy.world/c/vikings. If you want to add that to the NFL sidebar that would be good. Right now the one listed is some german speaking one.
I'm not good at moderating yet on this platform, but I'm willing to learn.
It looks to me like news@beehaw.org is much more active than this community. Is there any benefit from the fragmentation? Why not close this one and redirect it?
As it stands now, Beehaw has defederated from LemmyWorld, so interacting with their news community through this instance means we don't actually see the majority of the comments and posts. LemmyWorld users can still post and comment, but that content doesn't get federated to other, non-blocked instances because its only a copy of the "real" community. Fully admit though that I'm still learning Lemmy, so if my understanding of this is incorrect please correct me!
Personally, I would like like to see this news community grow. News is a general and broad enough topic that I think as Lemmy continues to grow, it can support multiple news focused communities. Even if the Beehaw news community continues to be considered "the" news community, there's room for additional options.
There's "room" for additional options in the sense that nobody is stopped from making them, but in reality, r/news was my one-stop news update place (all generally interesting news made it there) and it wasn't too big. For Lemmy to need multiple news communities, its main news community will have to become bigger than Reddit's. Of course I hope that happens, but it is nowhere near there yet.
That is weird about beehaw defederating and between that and a few other defederation stories I've seen, I start to think this federated discussion forum thing might not pan out all that well.
I'm not sure about benefits besides potentially different moderation teams if either of them turns into a bit of a cesspool.
I clicked your link and it didn't lead me anywhere, however, and I have seen that many times if communities in other instances are not linked correctly, it will log you out when you go there if you're from lemmy.world, lemmy.ml, etc.
It's all a bit confusing with the instances and redundant communities, but I suppose the major difference would be that people tend to end up on their own instances community for whatever the topic is.
This worked for me: https://lemmy.world/c/news@beehaw.org
It took me a while to figure out but there are two link buttons under each post. One goes to the local copy and one goes to the hosting instance. That just seems like a UI issue needing tweaking.
Communities are more interesting if they reach a certain size where there are enough posters to cover the significant events in that topic. Reddit's r/news is huge and the smaller news subs are almost insignificant by comparison. Here, the fragmentation keeps everything small, I think that makes it harder to reproduce Reddit's success.
If you're still looking, I would also like to help (:
If your still looking I’d be happy to help.
Thanks!
I'm willing to help Mod here
Happy to help. I've moderated some smaller niches on the former site that won't be named. I'm west coast and while I have my personal beliefs, I do try to seek wider input for knowledge and discussion.
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Welcome to the News community!
Rules:
Attack the argument, not the person. No racism/sexism/bigotry. Good faith argumentation only. This includes accusing another user of being a bot or paid actor. Trolling is uncivil and is grounds for removal and/or a community ban. Do not respond to rule-breaking content; report it and move on.
Obvious biased sources will be removed at the mods’ discretion. Supporting links can be added in comments or posted separately but not to the post body. Sources may be checked for reliability using Wikipedia, MBFC, AdFontes, GroundNews, etc.
Only approved bots, which follow the guidelines for bots set by the instance, are allowed.
Posts which titles don’t match the source may be removed. If the site changed their headline, we may ask you to update the post title. Clickbait titles use hyperbolic language and do not accurately describe the article content. When necessary, post titles may be edited, clearly marked with [brackets], but may never be used to editorialize or comment on the content.
Posts must be news from the most recent 30 days.
No opinion pieces, Listicles, editorials, videos, press releases, or celebrity gossip will be allowed. All posts will be judged on a case-by-case basis. Mods may use discretion to pre-approve videos or press releases from highly credible sources that provide unique, newsworthy content not available or possible in another format.
If an article has already been posted, it will be removed. Different articles reporting on the same subject are permitted. If the post that matches your post is very old, we refer you to rule 5.
Misinformation / propaganda is strictly prohibited. Any comment or post containing or linking to misinformation will be removed. If you feel that your post has been removed in error, credible sources must be provided.
All posts must link to original article sources. You may include archival links in the post description. News aggregators such as Yahoo, Google, Hacker News, etc. should be avoided in favor of the original source link. Newswire services such as AP, Reuters, or AFP, are frequently republished and may be shared from other credible sources.
For copyright reasons, you are not allowed to copy an entire article into your post body. This is an instance wide rule, that is strictly enforced in this community.
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@lemmy.world
Welcome to the News community!
Rules:
Attack the argument, not the person. No racism/sexism/bigotry. Good faith argumentation only. This includes accusing another user of being a bot or paid actor. Trolling is uncivil and is grounds for removal and/or a community ban. Do not respond to rule-breaking content; report it and move on.
Obvious biased sources will be removed at the mods’ discretion. Supporting links can be added in comments or posted separately but not to the post body. Sources may be checked for reliability using Wikipedia, MBFC, AdFontes, GroundNews, etc.
Only approved bots, which follow the guidelines for bots set by the instance, are allowed.
Posts which titles don’t match the source may be removed. If the site changed their headline, we may ask you to update the post title. Clickbait titles use hyperbolic language and do not accurately describe the article content. When necessary, post titles may be edited, clearly marked with [brackets], but may never be used to editorialize or comment on the content.
Posts must be news from the most recent 30 days.
No opinion pieces, Listicles, editorials, videos, press releases, or celebrity gossip will be allowed. All posts will be judged on a case-by-case basis. Mods may use discretion to pre-approve videos or press releases from highly credible sources that provide unique, newsworthy content not available or possible in another format.
If an article has already been posted, it will be removed. Different articles reporting on the same subject are permitted. If the post that matches your post is very old, we refer you to rule 5.
Misinformation / propaganda is strictly prohibited. Any comment or post containing or linking to misinformation will be removed. If you feel that your post has been removed in error, credible sources must be provided.
All posts must link to original article sources. You may include archival links in the post description. News aggregators such as Yahoo, Google, Hacker News, etc. should be avoided in favor of the original source link. Newswire services such as AP, Reuters, or AFP, are frequently republished and may be shared from other credible sources.
For copyright reasons, you are not allowed to copy an entire article into your post body. This is an instance wide rule, that is strictly enforced in this community.
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How many communities do you own, Hurts? Saw several calls for moderators from you. :).
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