For the sake of order and understanding all previous posts regarding moderation will be listed below. It would be nice to have all ongoing discussion in this one central post that I'm speaking in right now. I will chime everyone that has expressed actual interest in actual discussion.
The goal is to have community consensus to the best ability regarding a new mod to be active, I have reached out in modmail and PM'd Clem so they are aware if they are in fact currently around.
I'm requesting to be mod and am open to questions in that regard. For those that don't know me, I've been here since this community was created via an invite from the original mod, Axolotl Peyotl and have been active the last 5 years. I would hope my reputation has shown it's own proof that I care for this community and members, if not, I am willing to provide assurances to any concerns.
Here are the posts that (I'm aware) currently relate to this topic:
https://communities.win/c/Meta/p/1ARK0LXq6i/cconspiracies-has-had-no-active-/c
https://communities.win/c/Conspiracies/p/1ARK0NmhL7/cconspiracies-has-had-no-active-/c
https://communities.win/c/Conspiracies/p/1ARK0No4Rw/does-the-community-want-more-act/c
https://communities.win/c/Conspiracies/p/1ARK0RBc7L/community-question-your-response/c
Here are the users that seemed interested in discussion:
If I've misread the replies and have left off any others that were interested in this discussion, please correct me.
It's because Scored has an oft-stated default policy that newcomers shouldn't have to face "politics" but should be allowed to opt in rather than to get it by default. Therefore app users are not served forums flagged as political. On Conspiracies we do have lots of political content, so I proposed that by flagging those NSFW they would achieve the admin objective, where they would not be served to newcomers (but all nonpolitical content would be, which it isn't currently); and only those few lurkers who don't have NSFW content turned on would miss it. Though the term "not safe for work" doesn't apply, I said we could interpret it as "not safe for world", i.e. not for broad distribution.
I don't think AMA content is political. Some covid content is political, much isn't. But if we make it a mod discretion issue rather than a forumwide ban, we'd get the original goal of having more exposure for apolitical Conspiracies content.
I'd love to hear your thoughts at the covid roundtable.
Shirley you jest. - we need to have a talk about ^ that, SR. Love you, but I really need to get on with what is on my plate right this minute. Sees you later.