Sorry to throw this on everyone in the group, but there has been another mod shakeup and it feels fair to address it publicly.
MightBe has been removed as mod from both Politics and World News.
I also unpinned and removed their rule change posts.
The too long; didn’t read is they were pretty hostile in messages to both myself and little cow, and when asked to join back channel discussions in chat, refused, and instead made unilateral decisions without group discussion.
Moderating a group like this needs to be a collaborative experience, no single voice should be establishing rules without some form of common agreement.
They not only refused to engage in that collaboration, but did so in a manner not fitting for being the new person on the team.
And it is a team. I tend to make more public posts than the others, because I value transparency over privacy, but when I do so, it’s a result of a nice private chat among the group.
For now, their rule changes have been removed from both Politics and World News. Back to the stated way of doing business:
Politics is for US Politics - Somehow I doubt that’s going to be an issue in 2024.
World News is for all News OUTSIDE the United States, that’s what the normal “News” is for.
There ARE things the mod team is discussing, and any rule changes will be made as a group effort, and (hopefully!) for the better health of the group and ALL of our participants!
Happy New Year!
It’s a bit funny to me that even when hosted on lemmy*.world*, the “news” community is exclusively for American news and the “politics” community is exclusively for American politics.
Yeah, that was a bit of a head scratcher for me too, I wasn’t around when it was all set up. “US News”, “World News”, “US Politics”, “World Politics” would have been clearer.
Based on when the Admins are most active, I don’t think they’re US based, but then I’m writing this at 5 AM Pacific time so WTF do I know? LOL.
Lordy did people have their panties in a bunch over that discussion.
It’s the reddit equivalent
I wouldn’t be against a system where news was labeled by region or country in the headline, but I think it’s too late because there’s already World News.
I saw people doing this sometimes, but then it stopped. I liked it too, as it seemed like a good compromise.