AceTKen

joined 2 years ago
MODERATOR OF
[–] AceTKen@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 year ago

Nope. I'm in Canada and it happens here too.

[–] AceTKen@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The points weren't chosen for quality, they were chosen because they are commonly parroted. This was in order to encourage people to discuss things that are commonly spoken, but may not be ideologically sound. In other words, they were chosen specifically to be debateworthy. If a poster chose, as long as they were on topic, they could also completely ignore them or create a new thread. Often in order to discuss something, you must give an opinion first and not merely sit and critique what other people say.

The topics where I wrote out a bunch of stuff that was ripe for picking apart were the topics that were discussed the most heavily. If you don't feel like that's a discussion, then I'm not sure what you would feel like one was.

[–] AceTKen@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

it seemed more like a place for the mods to have a soap box

I mean... that's what starting a thread is as a CMV, article, or Steelman (among others). As a mod, it's kind of our job to create threads when the Community isn't large enough yet. Do you feel someone would start a community called Actual Discussion and not have anything they'd like to discuss?

some of the “topic starters” were incredibly leading

They were common talking points I saw in other threads ripped almost directly from top replies, not my opinion. And you were never required to speak on the starters, they were simply things to get people thinking and responding.

All in all, I'd say you're being rather uncharitable in your descriptions.

[–] AceTKen@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago

Thanks for the response! I would very much appreciate any way to further grow the Community, so I'd love to get added to the spotlight.

[–] AceTKen@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago (5 children)

That's... not a terrible idea. Do you know what that entails? Is there an easy way to move things, or is it just a matter of starting the new one up fresh?

[–] AceTKen@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah, I should have replied, but last week was one of the busiest weeks I've had. My apologies. The response was great and definitely deserved more people engaging with it.

I'm not American either, but the division seems to be a worldwide phenomenon. It's definitely in Canada where I am and seems to be feeding off the American version.

[–] AceTKen@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Well, you're right. I probably won't delete the Community, but I won't engage either if my mind can't be changed. Some discussions on here have been awesome, and it'd be a shame to wipe them out.

I wish there were a way to have to force users to have to opt into the shitty dopamine hit mode you mentioned instead of it being the default. It's one of the main problems with modern social media and one of the reasons I feel that Forums were dramatically better.

[–] AceTKen@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (9 children)
  • Better ways for Communities to surface themselves. Starting with such a small community, it's hard to get more people unless they come in from browsing the equivalent of /All. I've also been active in promoting this Community to people who seem to want to discuss things on other threads and were frustrated by the same things I was, but we're still pretty small.

  • More controls (and decoration) available to the Community itself. It'd help us out a lot if we could disable downvotes, for instance. As it stands, we can't discuss any remotely controversial topic without no-comment downvotes from random people burying threads. That means that if the first few people don't like the topic or my initial outlay of it, they kill any hope of anyone seeing the thread. On a platform with scads of various activists, this means that this happens often.

  • Better moderation tools. For instance, we can't properly remove deleted content, and it's all mostly visible still on mobile clients. Hell, we've seen deleted rule-breaking comments continue to accrue upvotes somehow.

  • Ways to pre-emptively surface sub rules to mobile users who never see the sidebar (especially if they are breaking them). Lemmy seems to think that people browse communities, but they do no such thing. The Community is popped into a feed, and people see a topic, but most never even look at the Community itself.

  • Stopping bad users. Things like... there need to be ways to stop a user from going into user history of others and downvoting every single thing they've ever written because they didn't like a take they had. We also need ways to appeal bans and stop brigading.

  • We've had threads reported for using terminology a user didn't like. The threads then vanished. We, the mods, were never notified that a large and actively debated thread was now gone and could do nothing about it.

[–] AceTKen@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I have about 200 of them saved that are my favorites and have been going through them when I find something that is related in my mind. I generally put them on the weekly threads to try and bump up engagement a little bit as it's something more than just text, and it's something that I love as well.

I think you're the first one to comment on it. It is appreciated!

[–] AceTKen@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Palaye Royale - No Love In LA Love these guys; they have some serious My Chemical Romance vibes and I used to live right near them.

[–] AceTKen@lemmy.ca 53 points 1 year ago (7 children)

Hey, wake up! The new Clippy skin just dropped!

view more: ‹ prev next ›