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Showerthoughts

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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted, clever little truths, hidden in daily life.

Here are some examples to inspire your own showerthoughts: 1

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If you made it this far, showerthoughts is accepting new mods. This community is generally tame so its not a lot of work, but having a few more mods would help reports get addressed a little sooner.

Whats it like to be a mod? Reports just show up as messages in your Lemmy inbox, and if a different mod has already addressed the report the message goes away and you never worry about it.

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Community Service: Vote on a new mod (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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In the spirit of Lemmy/federation giving more power to the users. I want to let the users of this community vote on our first candidate for a new mod. This is a little risky because there has not been much time for community to form, but I think its a chance to set a good precedence.

Voter information

The candidate for a new mod: lemmy.world/u/forkball

My arguments for adding them as a mod:

Assuming its the same person, reddit.com/u/forkball was an active reddit user since 2011. And from briefly scanning their history on reddit and Lemmy, they seem like a good level headed person. I think they would be a good mod, but the voice of the community is what matters.
I have no mod experience and was always a complete reddit lurker, so it would be good to have a very active community member as a mod.

My arguments for not adding them:

Y'all are chill and not causing a lot of work for me. So at this instant I can handle the work load. Not sure how long that will last though.

How to place a vote

I hope to avoid bots so voting will take some effort.

To place a vote you must comment on this post (I wont count nested comments). Your comment must begin with "YES:" or "NO:" followed by no less than 4 words justifying your vote.

Votes must be submitted before June 29 at 06:00 UTC.

If we have more YES votes than NO votes, u/forkball will become a mod.

Here are examples of valid voting comments: "YES: because forkball both showers and thinks!" "NO: because they didn't give me an up doot"

Fineprint

Lemmy and moderating is still new to me so if this ends up being a really dumb move on my part for some reason I cannot foresee, I reserve the right to bail on this idea and try another method for community input. Things would need to get really nuts for me to bail on this vote.

I don't expect a huge number of votes, but if im wrong, it may take some time to tally the votes.

Edits

It seems implied, but only one vote per username. Feel free to report duplicates. I will also try to publish the counted votes so people can validate my tally.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

YES: They're motivated and it's better to have a backup in case one mod is unavailable.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

YES: smart to get ahead of this and plan for the future

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

YES: because this seems like something the other site wouldnt have the foresight of doing.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Tes, 'cause it sounds good to me

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Just so you know, this wont count as a vote. it either needs to start with "YES:" or "NO:". Without that i dont know if you think u/forkball as a mod "sounds good to me" or maybe you just think holding a vote "sounds good to me"

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

YES: because he's not been a mod before and everyone deserves a chance to invoke the internet's ire.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

YES: even if the community is chill now, you don't know what can happen, look at bots currently trying to invade lemmy for example, getting help before problems could occur is always a good thing, better safe than sorry IMO.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

YES: Mostly because I want to see if this method of avoiding bots works.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

you and me both

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Tried to tag you and @forkball in a different comment on this post, will you let me know if it worked or how to do it differently?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Hey guys, I am not u/forkball on reddit. I'm u/tottspot. Will make a post over there to verify. Just have an interest in getting involved in modding and offered to help. I consider myself a team player and have been a lurker at r/showerthoughts for years and wanted to get more involved over here. Cheers!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

reddit verification comment

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Wait I'm confused, does the OP even know who you are? Why are they putting you forward?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I don't think it's really necessary to know who @forkball was on reddit or anywhere, I was just saying I don't think they have that username on reddit for clarification. But if they aren't a bot and seem willing then welcome, I say, and thank you! I assume @vatlark can boot anyone who turns out to be a bad mod?

Also I think putting your names like that will let you both know about this message? Edit: maybe not, hmm

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

YES: he seems to be a good willing candidate

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

YES: Always beneficial to have more than one mod, and if the community later disapproves it's easy to remedy.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Yes: We will need more mods, we are only behaving because we are distracted, the chaos will come. 😊

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

YES: thanks all

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

YES: He offered to mod, is enthusiastic and I'm happy to let him

Edit: spelling

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

YES: Even if the workload is low, you can't moderate 24/7. Even while awake, you'll have other obligations and it would be very unfortunate if something happens while you're busy. A second person won't cover the community at all times, but it does make it easier.

Also, I am anticipating another large influx of users next month too.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

@vatlark Have you tried reaching out to the mods of the reddit showerthoughts and seeing if they're interested in resuming operations over here? Based on the community picture I assumed this and the reddit variant were the same.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

YES: because forkball was a strong member of the reddit community and from their comment history seems to think for themselves.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Is there a way you could make the Reddit forkball user upload/write something innocuous in Reddit, that you request the lemmy forkball user to write - to establish credibility?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I don't think they're the same user, did this u/forkball say they are? They write differently, on different topics/teams, and honestly the reddit one seemed fairly grumpy. I say if a person seems decent and isn't a bot let em try and we can always register our complaints if needed.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

i didn't ask, so I will now

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

YES: because forkball both showers and thinks!

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