Edit: Everyone should be unbanned now and most local posts should be restored

Reach out on matrix, here, or via email please if you notice a post removed that you would like restored!

A lot of communities here were created by people who have have not logged on for months, were banned due to poor conduct, or are simply just one person trying to manage multiple communities (and maybe being an admin 😅).

Because of this we have a lot of communities that could use some love. If you see a community that you love that has 1, 2, or even no mods, and you would like help out and become a mod, message me here or on matrix, or message in the public or mod coordination matrix rooms and we will see about getting you added to the mod team.

• If the community only has one or more mods that are still active we will reach out to them and get their approval to add you
• If the community only has one mod and the mod has been inactive for 3+ months we will add you as a mod
• If the mod has been inactive for 6+ months we will remove them and make you top mod.
• If the community has no mods, you will become top mod.

Note: the purpose of this is to get a few passionate people from

As this community grows automod will be more and more important. We've already seen some OC creators stop posting because of rude comments. This along with it's general usefulness has pushed us to implement an automod solution.

We have implemented basedcount's lemmy-automoderator

It has the capability to moderate:

• comments
• posts
• and make custom ! comment commands

The automod user is @automod@lemmynsfw.com

How to add automod:

• as you'll see later in the wiki, the automod has to be manually set as a moderator of your community
• Message me and I'll login and comment on a post in your community.

Edit: I've added automod to just about every community I could find. If your community doesn't have automod, or you make a new one, please message me and I'll add automod to your mod team

• Once the comment is made, appoint automod as mod, and Read the wiki to

Several people in the community have expressed frustration in regards to the fact that any post that fits the community it's posted to but is slightly out of the normal post type like, for example, being more hardcore rather than softcore, get's a lot of downvotes by people who simply don't like that particular post.

We have also had complaints that particular types of posts as a whole get more downvotes even if they are in the appropriate community and are the normal type of post for a community. This especially appears to be happening to male content.

Additionally we are seeing posts with more downvotes than a community has subscribers, meaning people are downvoting content they don't even want to see in the first place.

We understand some may not like some content of a particular post or community, but downvoting posts discourages these posters who are actually passionate/interested in the topic of the community from posting again. Additionally, when posts are downvoted like tha