Well, we’ve sure had a doozy of a week here on the newly reopened !android@lemmy.world.

This post is designed to have everyone on the same page for the operation of the community, as well as to address any feedbacks or concerns which you may have. Our goal is to make sure everybody’s voice is heard.

Everything is up for discussion, feel free to give your thoughts on the current state of the community here.

Instead of being on a set schedule, this post will be updated whenever our moderation team feels like there’s enough of a need to start a new one. Hence, irregularly updated.

So. let’s get started:

1. We are looking for new mods.

As this is a technical community, the amount of rule breaking comments and posts we have to remove right now has been pretty low. So, the primary responsibility of mods is currently to engage with the rest of the community and actively host discussion threads.

I’d say we would want at least two more moderator for now. Mods should be knowledgeable and helpful and should serve as an example to the rest of the community.

2. Instance and community partners.

With the admin’s permission, we have decided that partnership with different communities will be needed for to help each other.

Please contact our moderators to see if we can have your communities linked on our side bar, but no further promotion will be allowed from any of us, and moderators have the discretion to remove advertisement under Rule 3.

3. Mod philosophies: Overall

I like to keep the atmosphere here casual yet passionately helpful, so, rules will be interpreted with a consideration for people first and foremost, as it’s the spirit of the rules that matter more than the letter. (But I’m usually a big softy on the rules.)

However, we also have a zero-tolerance policy for hate. Rule 5 will be liberally applied from our moderator team as seen fit to prevent toxic internet arguments. Please be your best self here and don’t make any of our lives more difficult.

4. Mod philosophies: No AMAs

The main topic we want to talk about here is Android, instead of having people doing self-promotions. If you had an interesting experience or topic about Android you would like to share, please describe it in a regular post instead.

AMAs are strongly discouraged, and it’ll be unlikely that our mod team would want to host any here for the time being.

5. Mod philosophies: No megathreads.

They just stifle discussion more than anything else. The Lemmy default “Active” algorithm is better than reddit’s default, so I don’t see a need for them. So, no megathreads for now.

6. Low quality comments

OK, for example, please don’t do the subreddit as hashtag thing here. Leave that behind at reddit. Please.

7. Optional Submission Statements

We’re going to encourage posters to leave an optional submission statement on their own thoughts on the article before submission (not just a summary or a copypaste of the article), in case the headline doesn’t explain enough.

Please don’t submit anything that you haven’t read yet. It’s lazy, and not behavior we would want to encourage here.

8. Any other questions or concerns you want to cover for the current rule set.