Hello World,

Due to our pace of growth, our platform ended up with thousands of communities created by you, our dear users. While we are still appreciative of every community effort, we decided we need to be able to better assist and publicize them. To assist with this effort, we now have two community team positions available:

  • The Community Engagement Team: This team will work with community moderators and find ways to increase their engagement, provide them with easy access to logo and banner options, and communicate with you better to assure transparency as needed. Team capacity: 6 new members expected
  • The Community Management Team: This team will be responsible of making sure communities have active moderators, assuring compliance in Lemmy.World communities, and keeping track of community moderation logs in order to assure they are moderated in good health. Team capacity: 6 new members expected

Both of these teams will be working closely with the admin team, and are expected to become ways for our users to have enhanced control of their instance. Let’s build something great together!

How to apply

All applications must include the following information:

  • Your Lemmy.World registered username, and your reason to apply
  • The position you are interested in
  • Your time zone, and average availability level

All applications may be sent to @[email protected] or @[email protected], or e-mailed to [email protected]

  • GladiusB@lemmy.world
    102·
    1 year ago

    Yea. I got banned from a community and zero clue why and when. I have a feeling it’s one of these.

    • jordanlund@lemmy.world
      10·
      1 year ago

      Looking at the modlog, it was News for repeated rude comments. Good news! It’s only 2 more days!

      Rule 1 in News is “1. Be civil”. You were marked as multiple rule 1 violations and had multiple comments removed.

      So you’ll be off the 3 day ban soon, keep it clean and you’ll be fine.

        • Antik 👾@lemmy.world
          9·
          1 year ago

          The modlog is public and you can use it to look up your username and the ban or removal reasons. This was not an action of a single moderator and the actions look justified tbh.

          • GladiusB@lemmy.world
            4·
            1 year ago

            Why aren’t people notified of this in an individual way? Seemed to come out of nowhere. I had no idea I was banned or why. Unless I posted here I would have never known nor would I even keep exploring the subject.

            • Antik 👾@lemmy.world
              8·
              1 year ago

              It’s how Lemmy works unfortunately, doesn’t let the user know any of the moderator actions taken. But you can do a search in the modlog.

              • Serinus@lemmy.worldM
                2·
                1 year ago

                It’s something the clients could work around. Auto search the modlog once in awhile and send you a message with the details on a fresh hit.

              • CashewNut 🏴󠁢󠁥󠁧󠁿@lemmy.world
                1·
                1 year ago

                I kept getting a Forbidden message for about a week a while back shortly before the first update to 0.18. After the update the forbidden message disappeared. I seemed to be the only one affected and when I used a VPN it allowed me to access the site.

                When I asked around on other instances online it turns out you can be IP banned entirely from the site and it had happened to a few people.

                The only contraversial things I did/said was to jokingly ask an admin “how long before you turn into Spez?”.

        • Thekingoflorda@lemmy.world
          112·
          1 year ago

          Yo! I was the one that banned you. I have looked at the Modlog, and I still feel like it’s justified. Your ban is only temporary, and meant more as a warning to refrain from using personal attacks. Know that you are very welcome to post, if you follow the rules of the community.

          If you have any questions, let me know (:

          • GladiusB@lemmy.world
            6·
            1 year ago

            Oh! I appreciate the response. Seemed to come from nowhere. I was engaging with an obvious troll and just saying “no u” to his attacking of me. I didn’t think it was so treacherous.

            • Thekingoflorda@lemmy.world
              12·
              1 year ago

              Yea no problem. There was one comment where you called them stupid (and one where you implied the same), and you did the same to someone else a two months ago (we look at the modlog for that stuff). The culmination of that leaded to a temp ban. That’s our standard policy. We suggest reporting and not engaging with obvious trolls (;

              We also don’t like that a ban isn’t made clear to the one that was banned, but that seems like something lemmy itself has to fix.

              Edit: I also unbanned you, because it seems like a genuine mistake.

              • GladiusB@lemmy.world
                6·
                1 year ago

                Oh I thought I was calling their comments stupid. Like they were unaware of how they were trolling everyone. I hear you. I will watch for it. I appreciate the response.

              • jarfil@lemmy.world
                1·
                1 year ago

                We suggest reporting and not engaging with obvious trolls (;

                Reverse text emoji… repeated offense… by an Admin… instructions unclear… 🙈