In the spirit of Lemmy/federation giving more power to the users. I want to let the users of this community vote on our first candidate for a new mod. This is a little risky because there has not been much time for community to form, but I think its a chance to set a good precedence.
Voter information
The candidate for a new mod: lemmy.world/u/forkball
My arguments for adding them as a mod:
- Assuming its the same person, reddit.com/u/forkball was an active reddit user since 2011. And from briefly scanning their history on reddit and Lemmy, they seem like a good level headed person. I think they would be a good mod, but the voice of the community is what matters.
- I have no mod experience and was always a complete reddit lurker, so it would be good to have a very active community member as a mod.
My arguments for not adding them:
- Y’all are chill and not causing a lot of work for me. So at this instant I can handle the work load. Not sure how long that will last though.
How to place a vote
I hope to avoid bots so voting will take some effort.
To place a vote you must comment on this post (I wont count nested comments). Your comment must begin with “YES:” or “NO:” followed by no less than 4 words justifying your vote.
Votes must be submitted before June 29 at 06:00 UTC.
If we have more YES votes than NO votes, u/forkball will become a mod.
Here are examples of valid voting comments: “YES: because forkball both showers and thinks!” “NO: because they didn’t give me an up doot”
Fineprint
Lemmy and moderating is still new to me so if this ends up being a really dumb move on my part for some reason I cannot foresee, I reserve the right to bail on this idea and try another method for community input. Things would need to get really nuts for me to bail on this vote.
I don’t expect a huge number of votes, but if im wrong, it may take some time to tally the votes.
Edits
- It seems implied, but only one vote per username. Feel free to report duplicates. I will also try to publish the counted votes so people can validate my tally.
YES: even if the community is chill now, you don’t know what can happen, look at bots currently trying to invade lemmy for example, getting help before problems could occur is always a good thing, better safe than sorry IMO.