Hey everyone,

We wanted to address a common situation we’ve seen over the years with some large online forums, reaching out to moderators for questions and concerns.

Typically a good first line of contact is to use the Report button for any posts that need moderator attention. This will open a report for both the community moderators and the site admins. This is normally enough for most larger communities with active mod staff. You may also reach out to your community mods, they’re here to help. 💖

We do encourage our communities to take care of their own and want them to always feel empowered to run themselves as they see fit (provided they are following the global site rules). Issues can arise for some smaller communities with only one moderator or situations where the local mod staff is inactive for one reason or another for an extended time.

In these situations, we’ve seen folks email our ticket system, and while we will try and get back to them, this ticket system tends to get end-user support cases mixed in (as well as a low stream of spammers trying to buy ads 🙄).

What we do want, is to provide a more direct line of contact to the site-admin team, so when ANYONE needs to reach out to us when something is amiss, they can get a timely response. While the team all are on a few different platforms, this tends to create a fragmented approach of not just the WHO, but the HOW to contact us.

While we as a team use our internal chat platform, we want to find a happy middle ground between @'ing us each directly in random chats, and issues sitting for too long in our ticket system.

This new system would be for PRIVATE Messages as a supplement to our Lemmy.world Support community, which we do monitor very closely, and our ticket email info@lemmy.world, both for more technical issues. Think of it like the bat signal 🦇🎆!

To this end, we’ve created two methods for reaching the site-mod team directly.

We hope that between both an anonymous platform approach AND a secure email-based approach, we can keep everyone happy 💝

In closing, please, always try and reach out to your community mods FIRST, they usually will know best how to handle a difficult or tricky situation, and use this only when you feel you need to reach out now.


  • The FHF/Lemmy.World Admin team 💓
80 points

Hi there! Looks like you linked to a Lemmy community using a URL instead of its name, which doesn’t work well for people on different instances. Try fixing it like this: !support@lemmy.world

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Good bot.

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6 points

XD

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well done, Chappy. Here’s a biscuit

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Think of it like the bat signal 🦇🎆!

It should be 🦇🚨 Smh. Goddamn noobs. 😾

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9 points

I try to not add work to anyone, unless there’s something truly dangerous to a person or community.

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We do want our individual communities to thrive as well. While it may not be urgent, if you have ideas to improve a community, please do reach out.

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Not all work is unwanted. I want the communities I moderate to thrive and reports can help with that.

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I can’t speak as an admin, but as a mod of multiple communities, please let me know if there’s an issue even if it isn’t on that level. I wouldn’t agree to be a mod if I wasn’t willing to look into people’s concerns. I’m sure many other mods feel the same way.

You’re really not adding work when it’s something I’m doing voluntarily and aren’t even required to act on no matter what’s going on, but you’re really not adding work if what you have to say will make the communities I moderate a better place.

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5 points

as the mod of two worldnews communities, can you try to squash the shill/bot accusations. it’s dehumanizing, and it acts as a thought terminating cliche, stopping discussion of the topic. it’s toxic af and it should be grounds for immediate short bans, and long bans with repeated use.

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I’ll do what I can. The best thing to do would be to flag those as uncivil. I would certainly delete something like that in the communities I moderate. It’s not only uncivil, it’s just unhelpful to the discussion.

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8 points

Nice additional measure

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I feel like this has been posted the very second I clicked “send email”.

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