I don't know if this has anything to do with it, but Houston's approach to homelessness is considered by some to be one of the most successful in the nation, and one of the components as I understand is to coordinate care for the homeless through a central agency, which then refers individuals to other programs and agencies. The idea is that it reduces duplication of effort. I'm not sure if this ordinance is related, though.
This is not an appropriate way to interact with another user on this instance. In the future, if you feel a need to jump into a conversation with this kind of low effort unpleasantness, please reconsider.
Howdy! To help wrangle this topic and keep the hive clean, we'll be removing this thread. We encourage you to direct new discussion to this megathread.
Lol, thanks. We'll most likely leave posts that were submitted before this thread since most of them have already generated discussion and we'd hate to cut that off. It would be great if there was some way to bundle up existing posts under a single post without removing them, but I've yet to see a site with a feature like that.
I'm sorry if it's frustrating to you to have megathreads like this. I'm not enthused about the extra effort in redirecting posts to the Megathread, either, but I'm not aware of a better way to handle topics that are flooding a community other than gathering them up in a thread like this. It annoys users (and mods) when dozens of articles about the same topic are dominating a community, so we'd like to do something to alleviate that when possible. I've seen similar concepts used in a number of different places (old-school forums, reddit alternatives like Tildes) because, as far as I've seen, there's not a better alternative for wrangling topics that might otherwise clutter the feed.
If you have any ideas about better ways to handle this type of thing in the future, I'd love to hear them (and I genuinely mean that - I think we're open to suggestions if a better way exists).
I've heard so much about Celeste and have never gotten around to checking it out, so I was really pleased to see it coming to Gamepass, I'm going to have to try it.
Hi, @jemorgan and @unpopular, this thread is getting pretty tense, I think it is time to disengage from the discussion. Further responses like these (personal attacks, insults) will be removed. When interacting with other users on this instance in the future, please keep in mind Beehaw's one rule: Be(e) Nice
I'm not sold on this track yet (I'll have to give it a couple more listens) but I really liked the other single Last Word that they just released. Baroness is cool though.
Hey, I think you can get your point across without using "autistic" as an adjective that way. I'm sure you didn't mean any harm by it, but we have a lot of neurodivergent users and I'm sure you don't want anybody taking your comment to be insulting or degrading to them. Please try to keep Beehaw a nice place for everybody.
I'm certainly not advocating jumping straight to sitewide bans for ordinary users who have a bad interaction, I don't think we ought to change our moderation approach or anything.
However, a lot of the bans I've seen so far have been for things like spam, trolling, or being outright hateful. Those are cases where the user is probably being a problem instance-wide, not just in a particular community. Now, if we continue to grow and we add more specific communities we will probably have more examples of users who are problematic in certain communities and not others, but for now that hasn't often been the case from what I've observed.
Because of that, it seems like it would be helpful for there to be a set of mods that don't have full admin access but have the ability to do things like hand out sitewide bans. That would keep the admins from being pulled in every time a spammer or troll needs to be yeeted.
I think I saw you had commented this on the discord a while back, and I still had not made the connection just now that they had gotten a cowboy bee tattoo before suggesting the name.
From my memory, folks were hanging out in the discord (the discord came before the website as a group of folks who wanted to start a different kind of community) and were talking about possibilities for the site. Early on there was talk of developing something from scratch (in fact, I think a working prototype was developed before it was decided to pivot to lemmy) and the admins needed something to name the github repo. As I recall somebody stuck their head in and just said the word "beehaw" and it stuck. I could be mixing things up, the timeline is a bit fuzzy and it's possible there were other discussions happening that I wasn't aware of. But as far as I remember it pretty much came out of nowhere and everybody just kinda shrugged and said, "that's the one".
The first single from Gunship's new album dropped yesterday and it's pretty good. They got Tim Cappello again and I am a huge sucker for the dark synth with a ripping sax solo vibe so I've been enjoying it.
I think that "power mods" are more of a perception than a reality even on Reddit. There are a handful of examples that people tend to bring up, but I'd wager that the vast majority of reddit users never had any issues with power mods (or if they did there's a decent chance that there's more than one side to the story), and I know that in a few of the examples people like to repeat there's more to the story.
I agree that Lemmy really needs a site mod role. Right now, only the Admins can issue sitewide bans or purge users posts or post contents. That means that admins have to step in any time a user is a problem in more than one community (and if they're a problem in one place they are more than likely going to be a problem in more than one) or if illegal content is posted (I haven't really encountered this, I know it has happened).
Thank you for this post. I really appreciate all that you and the other admins have been doing to keep Beehaw going. I hope you're able to disengage when you need to and manage the burnout. Take care of yourself.
I don't know if this has anything to do with it, but Houston's approach to homelessness is considered by some to be one of the most successful in the nation, and one of the components as I understand is to coordinate care for the homeless through a central agency, which then refers individuals to other programs and agencies. The idea is that it reduces duplication of effort. I'm not sure if this ordinance is related, though.