I think there's some training info over on yepowertrippingmods if that helps
this post was submitted on 13 Apr 2026
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I'll be sure to model that behavior verbatim. /s
Help! Help! They're being repressed!
Now ban him for questioning your methods
First of all: Thanks for stepping up
Secondly: Hopefully pedantic dorks won't cause the mod queue to clog up
Thirdly: Reported for rule 4, "Self promotion"
Lifetime ban, reason: technically correct.
The best kind of banned
Damn it...
What are your views on Israel? And would having an opinion of one side or the other result in a permaban?
Just kidding, good luck. Hope you don't have to deal with too many gooners and their search for social media infighting.
I am not antisemitic, and I do not believe criticism of Israel is equivalent to antisemitism. Being open, I was devastated when I heard about the October 7th attacks, both thinking of the Israeli victims and how the Israeli government would use it to justify what they are doing now.
That said, I will treat blatant antisemitism as I would any other flavor of racism. That includes antisemitic conspiracy theories. There was a lot of that kind of mess in the backlog.
Its a tough line to navigate sometimes, hence my request for some grace.
Good luck! Im a new mod in a different com, and boy are backlogs scary stuff.
We appreciate you, roofuskit!
Good on you for stepping up! Hope it encourages others to volunteer for the communities they care about :)
Godspeed
hey, good luck. it's a thankless job and can be very emotionally trying. thanks for taking care of the community.
Hey, thanks for helping support spaces on the threadiverse ☺️
Good luck with the backlog and I hope you have a lovely day!
Thank you for stepping up! Good luck <3
Thank you, will try to report anything that would need mod attention with more vigilance than other places.
Good luck
As long as you don't call yourself Harry Dresden while banging on your neighbor's door asking where their daughter is, I think you'll be okay.
Welcome to the "didn't ask to be a mod, but the admins asked enough for us to say yes" team lol. Thanks for taking on the responsibility. Being a mod isn't a fun job most of the time, but someone's gotta do it.
Thank you!
Thank you for moderating.
wonder if they all went back to the reddits version of YSK, i know that sub is pretty active. if you exclude the bots.
You should know its your job to delete low effort posts, including images of text.
Report them.
I do. Seems a lot of mods ignore my reports.
I guess you missed the part where the Mods have been so inactive Admins had to step in and assign someone...
Give this guy a break; he's cleaning up other peoples messes, for free.
All your reports arrive late and covered in slime, what do you expect!? 😆
I'll try to buck that trend.
Since this comment you've reported two comments, not posts, where people posted a gif with text. You're being ignored because that's not a rule violation. You cannot clog up moderation queues just because you don't appreciate people's comments. Please do not report anymore comments for that reason.
If there's a low effort POST like you described, I will be happy to remove it as that violates the sub rules.
Posting images of text in comments is the same issue. It's not accessible to blind folks.
I'll continue to do my part in downvoting and reporting.
Please do your part in temp bans and educating users.
It's okay downvoting, it's not okay cloging, instead you could ask to make a rule against that;
Be mature
It's not clogging to work together to improve lemmyquite