🎉Happy 2-year-anniversary, folks!🎉

Thank you to everyone who has posted, commented, and voted over the past two years. The community would not be what it is without you!

Thanks also to the sh.itjust.works admins for keeping this server running smoothly. This community could not exist without you.

This community has had a bit of mod turnover since we started, and I’m looking to grow the team a bit. Would anyone be willing to help out?

This is also an opportune time to solicit feedback and suggest changes. Any general feedback or suggestions?

Thank you all for participating in this community, and here’s to the next two years!

  • Canigou@jlai.luMEnglish
    4·
    2 months ago

    Hi there, Canigou from France. Space exploration enthusiast. I’ve been mostly lurking on the sub until now but I’d be happy to try out the moderator role !

    • threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.worksOPMEnglish
      3·
      2 months ago

      Thanks for volunteering! Do you have a Matrix account? Compared to Lemmy comments and direct messages, it would make for easier communications, especially between multiple moderators.

  • ptfrd@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    2·
    2 months ago

    Until now I’ve been too lazy to look into what rules/guidelines exist for this community. Am I now right in thinking there aren’t any? (If so, I’m not complaining!) Or am I just not finding them (as an inexperienced Lemmy user)?

    The thing I was going to look into was any posting guidelines. How significant should something be to warrant its own post? For example, this tweet includes a video with an F9 barge landing perspective that I don’t remember seeing before.

    FWIW, my own feeling is that I’d like a quarterly “General Discussion Thread” (as with the equivalent Subreddit), to gather up all the minor stuff.

    Are posts automatically ‘published’ or do they go through moderation first? (If this is something I should be able to determine myself, if I knew more about Lemmy, LMK and I’ll go & do some reading!)

    P.S. My thanks to you and all the team for all your efforts.

    • threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.worksOPMEnglish
      1·
      5 days ago

      what rules/guidelines exist for this community. Am I now right in thinking there aren’t any?

      None at the moment, other than removing obvious spam/off-topic posts.

      Are posts automatically ‘published’ or do they go through moderation first?

      Posts should be visible right away. If you posted something and it seems to be stuck in some sort of purgatory, it may have been flagged as a false positive by one of the sh.itjust.works automod bots. I don’t know much about these, so I would recommend contacting an admin in that case.

      a quarterly “General Discussion Thread” […] to gather up all the minor stuff.

      It’s a good idea. In the early days of this community, I tried setting up monthly discussion threads, but they didn’t garner much activity. I think the inconsistency with which pinned threads are federated between instances (and platforms) might be a factor here. We could try it again, though, if there is sufficient interest.

      Personally, I think the examples you provided would be perfectly worthy of their own posts! :)

      • ptfrd@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        1·
        2 days ago

        If you posted something and it seems to be stuck in some sort of purgatory

        No. Every post I’ve ever made ‘to Lemmy’ has seemingly been ‘published’(?) quickly, but I couldn’t rule out that this was happening via fast manual approval.

        I was mostly just asking out of interest. Perhaps out of a feeling that if there was moderation then I didn’t need to think quite so hard about whether a given post was worthy of submitting.

        Personally, I think the examples you provided would be perfectly worthy of their own posts! :)

        Thanks, it’s good to get a ‘steer’ on this. But are you including my “F9 barge landing perspective that I don’t remember seeing before” example in that? And if so, is that just because you hadn’t seen it before either?

        What if it had been something else, that already was widely known about? Maybe just let people down-vote the post? Or merely not up-vote it? Maybe we should only post if we’d guess a 60% probability that 60% of community members haven’t already seen the post contents?