And by more serious discussions I mean e.g. the legality of the recent jury nullification issue, which I don't want to allow if I were a moderator in it.

If you say yes you will be granted the community "ownership" as the sole moderator. I've only been a mod myself on Lemmy for less than a day but we'll figure out how to transfer it to you. You can ofc always add new mods and change it however you like after that. The advantage here is chiefly that you get the community "name" AskUSA, whereupon I could later create e.g. a CasualUSA but you would have the privileges of that specific name, to match the style of e.g. AskUK or AskLemmy (or AskScience or AskMen or AskElectronics or AskAndroid etc. - there are so many here using that style:-).

I don't want to be involved in something that is going to constantly be depressing to me, though I do recognize the need for such and am offering the community "name" if someone else wants to pick up that mantle.

While if nobody says yes then I suppose I'll just keep it going in the more CasualUSA light-hearted style, until such time as someone does. Either way I'll offer to help grow it by posting and commenting to it regularly - unless you want me to stop b/c I tend to be really bad at guessing what people want to see (e.g. personally I love John Oliver and also got involved in the Reddit protests, so why people are downvoting sexy pics of JO on Lemmy of all places... I seriously have no clue).

The community also needs moderators to help in general - so even if you don't want to take it over, would you like to help moderate it if it were to remain a more casual, light-hearted community?

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] admiralpatrick@lemmy.world 5 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I'd be willing to moderate it from my Lemmy World account (this one), but I do not want to be "top mod". Mostly I'm willing to help keep trolls and rif-raff at bay and enforce the rules. Rules look okay to me, but I guess they can be fine-tuned as the need arises?

[–] OpenStars@discuss.online 4 points 8 months ago

Yay! I would love to be co-mod with you (I tried to tag you specifically in a message earlier to this effect:-D). You'll need to make a comment or post or something within the community itself, so let's transfer our discussion over to the cross-post I just made of this.

Assuming someone else joins, I can make them the top mod, then you (or I guess they would have to be the one to make you a mod, perhaps, if you specifically do not want to be on top).

Or if nobody does, then it can still be just you and me, though we keep it casual and light-hearted until someone else is willing to take on mod-ship offering more serious discussions.