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]
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.
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.
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.
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.
Which doesn’t help if a person gets IP-banned from the site.
There is no such thing as ip-bans on Lemmy
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?”.