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Sorry, but I have to withdraw my offer. I am currently struggling with mental health and can't handle any more toxicity or drama.
The last few days have shown me that stuff like this is not good for me at all.
So, good luck and happy rules.
~~Hello! It's me, Roflmasterbigpimp! The lovable rascal from communities like [email protected] and, since yesterday, [email protected].~~
~~And to some degree even [email protected] for a whopping two days, until feddit.de (and therefore my account) died.~~
~~Even though I have barely done any moderation at all over at [email protected], I still want to help out and perhaps sort things out further. I tried to do my best on the .world 196. I encourage you to check my comment history about this topic and form your own opinion about me.~~
~~I can 100% understand if you decline my offer, but I really like this community and want to make this work.~~
~~Furthermore, I would advise adding a rule along the lines of "All decisions affecting the community and its members as a whole must be backed by a public vote." This is something that could have prevented this whole disaster in the first place.~~
Is there a way on Lemmy to distinguish who is or isn't a community member? Is there a way to prevent me from rigging votes with a bot army or a group of bad actors?
As far as I know, yes. There is some sort of trace from where the Upvotes came. But I'm not deep into Lemmy-Tech so I don't know much.
But it would still be possible for me and a number of trolls/bots to make accounts here and participate in voting, right?
I completely agree with the sentiment of involving the community, I just remember having problems with direct democracy on Reddit and question what the best implementation is.
People on other instances can be community members as well, which is an extra complication on top of Reddit's problems in the "Who's allowed to vote?" question.
I guess so. 🤔
But it would at least open the discussion Instead what ever just happend.
The thing is I'm quite sure moss and the other Mods plan was not
Move Community
get backlash
Change Plan
???
Profit
Thats why some rule like you just can't do that should be in place so People can discuss this. Because if accidentally or not it caused massive drama and rift and could have been avoided so easily.
No, I agree that there must be a rule(s) to prevent just this sort of thing. I'm only objecting in an attempt to help moderation craft the best version of the rule for the desired effect. And even with that said, an imperfect solution is better than no solution, so my objection should be disregarded if there's no way around it.
Possibly there should be new systems in place, such as registering membership with communities beyond simply subscribing, and then it would be very clear who should vote on community issues.
You make really good Points! I honestly just have not considered that someone might do this .__.
But People do wild shit to "own the Libs" or "dank on them queer folk".
We had a vote on sh.itjust.works on whether or not to federate with threads and it seemed to go just fine. They had a bot that checked validity.