Hi there.

A short introduction: This is an alt account. I’m a moderator here who has been unhappy with the state of news/political discussions here for a long time. The admins have kindly given me the opportunity to see if we can make some improvement the community here.

We will be doing some major revision of the rules left by the previous moderators and will use discussions in this thread as feedback on the direction we should take our community.

This will be an open discussion on the state of our community, the rules and our moderation practices. Feel free to give your inputs.

My goal is to foster thoughtful discussion in our community, and not let this place be a replica of r/politics.

First order of business, immediate rule change.

On !politics@lemmy.world, effectively immediately, we will no longer restrict political discussion to the politics of the United States of America. Discussion regarding of the state of politics from around the world is now welcome.

I will leave this pinned for 1-2 weeks for our team to take feedback and make our proposals then.

    • Might Be@lemmy.worldOP
      91·
      10 months ago

      The previous logo and banner was made by YoBuck, I think he took it with him when he left.

      Might want to run a logo contest/banner contest sometimes soon, if you guys are interested.

      • Stamets@lemmy.world
        51·
        10 months ago

        What a fucking child. Not surprising given he was unilaterally banned from another instance for aggressive homophobia well before he was banned here.

        I say run it. His logo was mid at best. I’m sure there’s plenty of people who can offer something better with barely any effort.

        • Might Be@lemmy.worldOP
          61·
          10 months ago

          It was startrek.website, right? I know about that one.

          I have gone out of my way to not interact with him or even be on the same mod team as him, because some of the things he said was legitimately disturbing, and I think he needs serious help. It is my hope that our community can move past him.

          With any luck, we’ll start running the contest very soon.

          • Stamets@lemmy.world
            5·
            10 months ago

            That would be it. There’s a new Trek show that has some gay characters, a lesbian, a non-binary character and a trans character. People got bitter as hell and started attacking the show over those specific characters. And i don’t mean criticising. I mean attacking. Him being the creator of star trek community on lemmy.world was the sole reason I never posted there. Even tried to help him out once and he got self righteous and said he didn’t need my help and I’ve been assuming its because I have the same name as one of those gay characters I mentioned. The one who gets complained about the most.

            I’m ass at making logos. The tumblr one and the star trek memes ones I made but that’s taking existing stuff and adding/removing to suit my needs. I’d do a horrendous job. But I’m all the way down to support the contest!

      • Riccosuave@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        10 months ago

        Seriously though, we need a new logo. As dumb as it is, it really makes the community feel more like a community. I’ve thought about this every time I see that bland looking “p” in my sub list, so I’m glad you brought it up!