beehaw are trying to be a perfectly moderated and “high quality” community and they are struggling to keep up with it when federated to other large instances.
I think they might need to change their methods because it is inevitable that some crap is going to be going on in low effort posts and comments, but defederating one very large instance from other very large instances is against the whole idea the movement.
Yeah. In the explanation they say that four people are taking the load of moderation, that can’t scale. If the rest of the communities keep growing they may end up isolating themselves for not being able to adapt.
I honestly think it’s somewhat irresponsible to have allowed themselves to grow as they did with only four moderators. Other instances have closed registration to maintain healthy growth. That should’ve happened long before this point.
I can see why they need to do it, they apparently only have 4 main mods for the entire server. with the limited mod tools available at the moment that is completely impossible to manage.
“I wonder if the type of community you’re trying to build wouldn’t be easier with a more traditional forum software like discourse. The infrastructure and moderation tools there have had much longer to mature.”
I think they’ve picked the wrong tool for what they’re trying to do.
beehaw are trying to be a perfectly moderated and “high quality” community and they are struggling to keep up with it when federated to other large instances.
I think they might need to change their methods because it is inevitable that some crap is going to be going on in low effort posts and comments, but defederating one very large instance from other very large instances is against the whole idea the movement.
Yeah. In the explanation they say that four people are taking the load of moderation, that can’t scale. If the rest of the communities keep growing they may end up isolating themselves for not being able to adapt.
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They also spend more time chatting on discord rather than modding lol
I honestly think it’s somewhat irresponsible to have allowed themselves to grow as they did with only four moderators. Other instances have closed registration to maintain healthy growth. That should’ve happened long before this point.
yea, four people is not enough for even the smallest community.
Glancing at my one-member Poetry community here:
C’mon, you what’ll you do if you get out of hand, need at least 7 to handle that
Poetry people are honestly pretty aggressive about their shit, so
It was inevitable, though. Hopefully we see instances segregate nicely into tiers of lawlessness rather than just chaos.
I can see why they need to do it, they apparently only have 4 main mods for the entire server. with the limited mod tools available at the moment that is completely impossible to manage.
I hope they can get past this hurdle.
Why would they think that would be enough to withstand the waves from reddit? That was just a disaster waiting to happen.
I’ve got to learn Rust like a madman so I can help implement mod tools. That’s honestly the main bottleneck alongside discoverability.
Elsewhere in the thread right now there’s an open troll. On Reddit you get silenced at -100 karma. What happens on Lemmy? Anything?
I posted this there, but since you can’t see it
“I wonder if the type of community you’re trying to build wouldn’t be easier with a more traditional forum software like discourse. The infrastructure and moderation tools there have had much longer to mature.”
I think they’ve picked the wrong tool for what they’re trying to do.