Hi there.

A short introduction: This is an alt account. I’m a moderator here who has been unhappy with the state of news/political discussions here for a long time. The admins have kindly given me the opportunity to see if we can make some improvement the community here.

We will be doing some major revision of the rules left by the previous moderators and will use discussions in this thread as feedback on the direction we should take our community.

This will be an open discussion on the state of our community, the rules and our moderation practices. Feel free to give your inputs.

  • Riddick3001@lemmy.worldEnglish
    131·
    11 months ago

    Seems to me that the majority of the mods @Worldnews are US citizens. Is this correct?

    • nekandro@lemmy.mlEnglish
      144·
      11 months ago

      Yeah, seems like it. This is true for a lot of online forums tbh: they reflect what Americans think of the world more than they reflect the world itself.

      • Riddick3001@lemmy.worldEnglish
        5·
        11 months ago

        Yeah, seems like it. This is true for a lot of online forums (… etc).

        I wonder if they will answer that question.

        Though, overall they are doing a pretty good job, it would be nice and appropriate to have a more cultural diverse Mod group @WorldNews.

        • zephyreks@lemmy.mlEnglish
          31·
          11 months ago

          It’s hard because the userbase of these platforms tends to be predominantly American since America dominates the Western Anglophone world.

          The largest “Western” Anglophone countries are, in order of population: the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, and Ireland. In fact, it’s not a stretch to suggest that, in terms of natively English countries, the US population exceeds that of all others combined.

        • 🌱 🐄🌱 @lemmy.worldMEnglish
          31·
          11 months ago

          There are members of the mod team from the U.S, U.K, and E.U

          I am a Catholic Woman from Southern Europe and have always thought of this community as one where we can come together to learn and discuss current events. I try not to engage much in comments as to me the role of moderator should be one that facilitates the user’s discussions above all else.

    • 🌱 🐄🌱 @lemmy.worldMEnglish
      42·
      11 months ago

      I am from the E.U and have been a mod in this community and was a top mod here for many months, there is a diverse and motivated mod team here!

    • Might Be@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      42·
      11 months ago

      I can only speak for myself, and all I can say about that is I do live in the US.

      Again, I would like to try something different here, which is also the reason we’re also testing removing the US only requirement for !politics@lemmy.world, since it never made sense to me that our communities should be so US centric politics-wise when our instance and a great number of our admins are in Europe.

      • Riddick3001@lemmy.worldEnglish
        91·
        11 months ago

        I don’t really get why two steady and operational fora need to change.

        Why don’t you leave at is; and if necessary, or needed, you might want to create a new @worldpolitics.

        And yes, US news, which has an impact on the world, should be worldnews as well. As long it’s not Internal US news, and placed with a correct country tag or title( like some suggested)

        So, Tesla calling cars back, is world news , and so is a new nuclear thingy. But not Michigan officer this or that.

        What nobody wants is too much one sided news, and dis/ misinformation. And some users don’t even want opinion pieces, because they are not " facts"

        I don’t mind Opinions stuff though. As long as the tag & title are clear, anybody can decide for themselves whether to click ot not.

        I also agree with the quality over quantity statement somebody else made.

        • Might Be@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
          5·
          11 months ago

          I don’t really get why two steady and operational fora need to change

          One of the top moderator for both of these community was removed. !world@lemmy.world has had 3 different top moderators removed to this date, and the previous two times this happened was utter chaos, which is why I requested to step in this time.

          And yes, US news, which has an impact on the world, should be worldnews as well. As long it’s not Internal US news, and placed with a correct country tag or title( like some suggested)

          We will try to clearly define “internal US news” vs “US news” to leave no ambiguity then.

        • 🌱 🐄🌱 @lemmy.worldMEnglish
          1·
          11 months ago

          https://lemmy.world/c/globalpolitics

          already exists! I’m the creator/mod of that but there isn’t really much engagement there other than my posts :) so I’m happy about the idea of working together with the lemmy.world/c/politics mods (if they want me) to take the level of article and discussion quality to the next level!