Community Name Squatter
The ones I've encountered so far were actually helpful like @CommunityLinkFixer and PipedLinkBot@feddit.rocks but I have yet to find any annoying ones like that Haiku generator bot from reddit. I'm not sure whether there is a measurement converter bot yet but if there is none, it would be a welcome addition.
What’s there to mod until there’s some content and users to mod?
And moderating is more than just deleting posts for whatever reason. Banner, sidebar, rules, news, featured posts, advertising the community elsewhere, interacting with different instances etc. is also part of that, and a mod that hasn’t logged in since the day they created their account is not doing any of these.
All of this has to be done before user-generated content shows up, or at least soon after. What the communities got instead, are 2 months of inactivity.
One mod is perfectly fine
There are, however, currently ZERO mods, as the only one listed as a mod is no longer here.
Buddy wants the communities without the initial legwork just to have to legwork…? They aren’t posting themselves and want the communities?
Where did I say that I want these communities? I'm perfectly happy with the ones I already mod. I just think it's easier to free up these names for OTHER people so that they have the chance to actually create the communities from scratch themselves instead of having to deal with the mess someone else left behind after scribbling their name on it. I also asked to delete the ones that "are completely empty anyway" which would leave the ones that already have content alone.
I really don't get why that upsets you so much.
About the moderation guidelines ...
- Please create a sidebar with some contents, at least a description of the community and some extra rules when applicable
They did not do that even after 2 months.
- Adding a banner and icon for the community makes it prettier. Please do.
They also did not do that, even tho it is an action that takes all of five minutes to do.
- Every community needs enough moderators.
The only mod is simply not present, so noone is actually moderating.
People are a lot less likely to participate in a community if the first thing you notice is that the creator doesn't give a sh*t about it. And like I explained in another comment, "regular" users can not fix this - only a mod can add a banner, the sidebar, rules, featured posts etc. so even on the off chance that someone decides to post there despite the first bad impression, the community will continue to have that first bad impression anyway.
Abandoned communities discourage interaction. While it is technically possible for anyone to post there, why should anyone want to interact with a community that's been sitting empty for two months? If a theater is abandoned, then yes, visitors can technically sit down and look at the empty stage, but why should they want to do that?
It is less of an issue if there is an empty plot that anyone who wants to actively participate can build from scratch. As it is now, people will take one look at those communities and go "eh, just lots of dead space and a mod that doesn't care, no use in staying here" and go elsewhere.
And moderating is more than just deleting posts for whatever reason. Banner, sidebar, rules, news, featured posts, advertising the community elsewhere, interacting with different instances etc. is also part of that, and a mod that hasn't logged in since the day they created their account is not doing any of these.
Wellllll ... I've never personally tried it myself (=P) but AFAIK it should not hurt. Seals have a very thick layer of fat under their skin (blubber) so it probably feels like bouncing on a gym mattress at worst. Plus, their natural habitat is full of uncomfortable looking rocks anyway (example) and it would be an evolutionary disadvantage if they were in pain all the time from just moving around. Flat pavement without sharp edges probably feels less uncomfortable than those rocks.
To be perfectly honest, even non-scrambled German words like Nahrungsmittelunverträglichkeit or Rechtsschutzversicherungsgesellschaften can fry human brains and AI circuits alike.
Not really IMHO. They're usually Mürbeteigplätzchen - dry, plain, only slightly sweet, with a sandy, coarse texture. They're meant to be dunked into the tea to soften them, but I dislike having squishy crumbs floating around in my drinks, so either way those cookies just aren't for me.
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These are pretty common.
German here. Unless you specify WHICH type of tea you want, you don't get any. But once you cleared that up, you usually get a cup of hot water with the tea bag (unopened) and 1-2 small packs of sugar, plus maybe a small cookie.
In csae anoyne wnats the sauce: https://www.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/people/matt-davis/cmabridge/
- "setting horse on fire without killing it"
.... it's a videogame glitch (BotW) that basically creates a Ponyta.
From the same franchise:
- "how many steaks can you glue to a stick"
- "murder chicken squad VS. goat"
- "how to cook wood"
Imagine you're at a convention or something similar. A huge building with lots of rooms, inside those rooms lots of tables, and at those tables, lots of people. You enter a room: At table A they are playing a board game, at table B they're discussing a rulebook, at table C they're in a heated argument about spaceships. You like it here, so you dump your backpack and jacket at one of the tables - this is your seat now.
But you're not confined to that room - you're free to wander the entire convention scene, regardless of which room you use as your "base", and other people are free to do the same. You can join discussions at any table in any room for as long as you like, and people who dumped their stuff into other rooms are free to visit yours.
The tables are communities ("subreddits"), the rooms are instances, and the building is the Federation. It doesn't matter much which "room"/instance you want to take as your base, since you'll have access to the same content in the entire building anyway.
The room / instance mostly doesn't matter for the site content, but might matter when something doesn't work as intended - if lemmy.world is down for maintenance for example, people are temporarily unable to access that instance, but can still browse the rest of the Federation. For the convention example, it's like someone dropped a bottle in the room and everyone has to stay outside for a while until the janitor has mopped it all up. You can still visit all tables in other rooms in the meantime, since a temporarily inaccessible room is no reason to shut down the entire convention.
Plus, if you're unhappy with your room for any reason, noone is stopping you from taking your backpack to a different room and find a new chair to leave it on. There is no limit on how often you can create new accounts on different instances if you like their site layout better (content is still the same tho) or something similar.
To compare it all to reddit: Reddit is a convention held inside a gym. Still a building full of tables, but they're technically all in the same room, so if something goes wrong inside that room, EVERYONE has to stay outside of the building, no matter where your seat is.
...at least that's how I understand it ;) I've been here for 2 months now, also ex-redditor. And yes, I've been super confused about it all for the first two weeks or so as well, but it gets better on its own the more you interact with the site. Support is super helpful and friendly, too.
Thanks ^^ I'll do my best.
Ohh I didn't know such a thing existed! Thanks for the link ;) This is actually pretty fun ♪
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Check the other posts that user has made so far, and their reactions in the comment sections. Definitely a troll.
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Don't feed the troll. That's the same guy who recently asked how actors deal with turning evil after having played evil roles, as if it was something that automatically happens.
Breath of the Wild, more than 4k hours. I know that dang game by heart in a way that you can show me a random screenshot and I can tell where exactly on the map you're standing.
Marvellous ♪
I just tested it and it actually works! This is really cool, thanks for sharing ;) my guides tend to be VERY in-depth and so far I always had to either cut out paragraphs that weren't too important or post multiple parts of something that would have been better suited as a single guide. But knowing that I can just edit in 40k more characters later makes this a lot easier. ♪
Thank you ;)