Moderation

This community was founded by Kim (originally using another account). Neither of Kim’s accounts that I know of have had any activity for the last 3 months now. I have reached out - but no response, so I am guessing that Kim is not active on Lemmy these days.

That leaves me as the only mod for the community, which is not ideal. I am not planning on going anywhere any time soon, but it is always better to have more than one mod. So: would anyone be interested in joining me on the moderation team? It is not exactly arduous. I check in a couple of times a day and I think that I have had to remove something like 4 comments in total since I started. I post some articles each day, but that is not part of mod duties, that’s just me, which brings me on to…

Content and direction for the community

I post a handful of UK wildlife and environment news items each day. This is partly since I find them interesting anyway, and partly since any community that is going to thrive needs fresh content. I am delighted when anyone else posts something. I often wonder whether more items would be posted by other people if I didn’t post as much. I have even avoided posting a couple of larger wildlife news stories at times to see whether someone else would instead. The results have been mixed.

But these are all news stories. I didn’t originally intend the community to be exclusively a news sub - and when Kim was around, we did have more variety. There was a time when I was into wildlife photography for example, and, especially since I was working as a ranger then, was capturing some good shots quite regularly. These days life has moved on. I don’t carry the camera kit with me at all regularly and am not directly working with wildlife now anyway, so the opportunities don’t arise anything like as much.

Anyway, are you happy with the current content? What would you like to see more of or less of? Do you have any other comments? Let’s have a discussion about the way forward for the community.