This community sidebar reads:

This Community is intended for posts about the Lemmy.world server.

That means announcements from the team, issues you see etc.

But I’m seeing off-topic posts that cloud the purpose of this community.

There’s a featured mod post by Sun-Spider that indicates these non-server related posts should be in the general community.

Full disclosure: I reported some posts and heard back from two admins, supplying contradictory info. One asked me to stop reporting as the posts were allowed, and the other thanked me and mentioned there’s some internal confusion.

Since this is all new, even for the mods/admins, I want to be clear that I’m not trying to throw anyone under the bus or stir the pot. I’m just hoping for some clarity so we know where to direct these posts, and where to watch for updates.

Edit: removed links to off-topic posts

  • PriorProject@lemmy.worldEnglish
    51·
    1 year ago

    I think either the mods need to go nuclear and start issuing tmp bans for misusing this community, or we need to give up and move server/admin announcements to a new meta community.

    I’m in favor of a new meta community, I don’t think people understand or care what this community is supposed to be about and I think its name is too cool for people to give up trying to turn it into /r/everythingidontcarewhatever/

    cc @sunspider@lemmy.world who is a mod here. FWIW, I feel like there’s so much garbage here that I’m losing visibility for server/admin posts which are both… like… essential for the health of the community… and also legitimately interesting to me.

    • Ulu-Mulu-no-die@lemmy.worldEnglish
      6·
      1 year ago

      No need to go nuclear IMO, it’s enough to close off-topic threads directing posters to /c/general, people will learn, hopefully.

      • PriorProject@lemmy.worldEnglish
        11·
        1 year ago

        The reason that I suggest nucularity is that apparently the past 2d have been what it looks like when the mods are already closing off-topic threads: https://lemmy.world/post/163272. The off-topic threads appear to be winning, so I’m suggesting more drastic options.

        Perhaps time is what is needed, but there are also still people in this very thread arguing that this community SHOULD be a free-for-all… so… I dunno. It just seems like the standard approach is being tried unsuccessfully, I’m happy to be patient and give mods the time to try what they think is right though. Just trying to spark ideas for significant improvement.> Spider