The canonical name being written out in words makes sense if you or Ada didn’t want to take over the existing community (which IMO would have been preferable). But I would strongly prefer that the display names of both communities make it clear which it is. So !196 would become “196 (archive)” and !onehundredandninetysix should just display “one hundred and ninety six”, or at least “196 (new)”. This is just so it’s very clear at a glance, regardless of where in the UI you’re seeing it, which community you’re looking at, and helps differentiate it visually from the LW one.

One rule I think might be a good idea is that mods aren’t allowed to moderate their own posts/comment chains. Not that it’s really been an issue on 196 in the past afaik, but there are some communities where the mods will get into an argument with another user and then remove comments for incivility or a similar rule which obviously has massive potential for abuse. Assuming there are enough mods where it’s not an issue to do so (which seems very likely based on the number of people interested in moderating) preventing situations like that entirely seems beneficial.

Literally didn’t know there was a blahaj 196, and now you guys are my entire feed lol. Love this fediverse lore

Also if you read this I wish you a wonderfully fulfilling day

Feels like it should have been 197 😅

You could always just copy the old 196 rules. They work pretty well.

I wrote these rules for a venting room on the blåhaj matrix, perhaps they could be of some inspiration here. A venting room on a different medium will have very different needs of course from a community like this.

Rules

User rules

• Assume others have good intentions. Strive to keep this a safe space to vent.
• Tangents are allowed, but the primary purpose of the room is venting.
• Don’t respond to vents if the venter does not wish to be interacted with. You can mark a vent with /dni to signify this.
• Keep mature vents in 18+ rooms if possible. Use https://trggr.link/ if such rooms are unavailable.
• Censor/spoiler sensitive issues and provide content warnings as appropriate. https://trggr.link/ is an excellent way to censor something. Some clients support surrounding text in || on either side of it to censor it like this: ||spoilered text||. Some clients may have a spoiler command: /spoiler spoilered text.

Issues you probably should spoiler: Slurs, racism, ableism, bigotry, suicide, self harm, abuse, drug/alcohol abuse, blood and gore.

Moderator rules

• Use a gentle hand, don’t reprimand!
• Assume good intentions.
• When moderating, use DMs or moderator rooms for anything beyond single-comment moderation and for anything serious.
• Don’t leave moderated users in the dark regarding issues they are directly involved in.
• Warn, then kick, then temp-ban, then perma-ban (avoid), in that order, when dealing with non-compliant users and serious infractions. Skip steps if necessary for larger infractions.
• Users may appeal your decisions and some arguing should be tolerated. Attempt to deescalate when this happens. Harassing you however is never okay.
• If you feel yourself become angry at or get a bad relationship with a user you are moderating then pass on the issue to another mod if they are available.
• Take care of yourself. You are moderating voluntarily after all.

Proper guidelines for moderators is probably key, and then for users a quick summary of the purpose of the community is important, followed by any additions to the instance rules.

I vow to make this comm 1000% more trans and leftist if appointed mod 🤓

I am in cahoots with the international trans mafia. I will not show anyone any quarter. (I already mod shit on here)

if i have any feedback then i would say that we need some proper rules in place, yeah we can just default to the instance rules but i think having some solid set of rules for moderators and users alike to follow would be a good idea. if you need help modding im interested.

Nice post

I have a few suckers really nice people who volunteered for modding along with me.

r those the people I mentioned in my post or r there even more?

I didn’t think this would take off!

yeh the community has been specially active today to make sure the new 196 grows apparently X3 I knew thatd happen the moment I saw the migration post in the old 196 tho, I love this community :3

I’m willing to help with moderation if needed

Glad to be here :3

The only experience I have is small leadership roles in some discord (🤮) communities, but I’d be willing to try my hand at moderating here. I’m trans, I like to think of myself as a good listener, and while my neurodivergence sometimes makes me “not get the joke” I generally think it forces me take a step back from my emotional response to things and look toward community reaction for guidance on various posts and issues. First and foremost I’m glad this community was made to help us stay on LBZ, and I’d love to help contribute to it even though I’m not a frequent poster.

I guess I’ll add a strong affinity for privacy, opt-in centric policy, self governance, and mutual accountability, as core tenants of digital communities. Especially in leadership roles I want to hear from my members, and create systems that work for them, not work the way I maybe envision them.

trans lover of memes and progressive politics here!

I would love to help out

Feedback: no more ‘fuck tankies’ in banner or rules. It’s divisive because it has no consensus definition and I think we should make all leftist feel welcome and just use mod action if someone is being harmful to the community.

Lemmy UI shows this as 196@lbz in the feed which is amazing UX xd