Wanted: A few good Goats to help watch the wall in v/Pizzagate (pizzagate)

submitted ago by Vindicator

Greetings Pizzagoats!

As you may or may not have noticed, we are down to just a couple of active mods here. We have invited many well-known community members to join the mod team in recent weeks but have consistently been turned down. We could use a few more mods to help remove off-topic, PGisStupid, and other non-research posts and help users navigate the submission rules.

Please suggest users you think would be a good addition to the mod team. We specifically look for:

  • A robust comment history that demonstrates...
  • Logic and critical thinking
  • Open-mindedness
  • Commitment to free speech/anti-censorship and willing to adhere to the Moderation Rules
  • An understanding of the subverse submission rules and willingness to follow them
  • Emotional poise/thick skin

There is no specific time commitment; we clean up the board as we can. However, the willingness and ability to take responsibility for a certain window of time or day of the week to give other mods a break would be a big plus.

Please nominate and/or upvoat anyone you feel would make a good mod in Comments below, with a brief explanation of why.

Thank you

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atheist4thecause ago

"anti-censorship and willing to adhere to moderation rules" -- a bit of an oxymoron lol

Vindicator ago

Which of the Mod Rules is pro-censorship?

atheist4thecause ago

Any of them that result in the deletion of posts, which is all of them.

Vindicator ago

Ah. You are confusing the rules that govern submissions with the rules that limit moderator power (Moderator Rules). Here they are:

Moderator Rules

(1) Submissions removed by a moderator will specify the following in the Reason field:

  • one or more rule numbers referencing the Submission Requirements that have been violated;
  • the username of the submitter (for later inspections).

(2) Submissions removed by a moderator on their probation period will, additionally, get a comment that will:

  • explain clearly which rule the submission broke;
  • explain what the poster needs to add/fix to resubmit or suggest an alternate subverse in the network to post it to;
  • provide a hotlink to the suggested subverse;
  • be distinguished as a moderator comment.

(3) Comments are to be off-limits to moderation, with the following exceptions:

  • illegal content (CP, direct threats against IRL entities, anything that you could be criminally charged for in US court);
  • doxxing of users;
  • adspam;
  • copypasta (the moderator will leave the first instance and remove the rest);
  • NSFW content (images, etc.) that has not been appropriately labeled as such;
  • hyperlinks to malicious URLs.

(4) Moderators will not delete posts based on source "quality". If a submission meets the Submission Requirements then the determination of quality will be left to the users and their votes. Moderators may use flairs to draw attention to submission quality.

(5) Flairs will always be provided a reason for in a comment by the moderator. The comment will state which flair has been applied, and why.

On-Demand Explanations

Users can request a detailed explanation for the removal of any submission. In order to do so, the explanation request needs to:

  • be posted as a top-level comment on the deleted submission (for transparency);
  • ping at least one moderator (using the @ sign);
  • be specific and demonstrate a prior understanding of the rules cited as the reason of removal, requesting information beyond what the Submission Requirements already provide.

Examples for specificity on a submission removed per rule 1:

  • "Why has this been removed?" ✘
  • "This is related to Pizzagate, why has this been removed?" ✘
  • "@wecanhelp, I think my post complies with rule 1 as it is about the Clinton family, and I'm clearly stating that. What am I missing?" ✔

Moderators, regardless of these rules, are still encouraged to be supportive, and make helpful comments on removals where it makes sense and there is a realistic chance of improving a submission that is otherwise investigative in its nature.

atheist4thecause ago

Lol. Any rule that give any moderator any power at all is inherently a rule for censorship. And given how much stuff you guys delete around here, don't even pretend like you are about limiting the power of moderators. Half the reason I stopped posting was because you guys constantly deleted my hard work because you'd find one little imperfection about how it was posted that didn't matter anyways.