Comment on Whats going on in YSK?
Acamon@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Not sure, but I wonder if it’s seen as an “easy” community to post in? There’s not a strict sense of what’s appropriate, and a lot of posts are just a link to an article, with “YSK” + a rewording of the article headline as the title.
It’s also one of the bigger communities, so posting a random article about a storm or laptops will get a decent amount of upvotes in a few hours.
Given that it mostly seems to be new accounts, I wonder if it’d be worth requiring a minimum age of a week or two before users can create a post?
I’m seeing the same sort of behavior in !fuckcars, and that community does (or at least should) have a pretty strong sense of what’s appropriate.
The kicker is, the stuff being posted is appropriate — in fact, often higher quality than the memes some of the established users post — so I’m at a bit of a loss as to what I (as a mod) should be doing about it.
I wonder if it’d be worth requiring a minimum age of a week or two before users can create a post?
Fuck no, that way lies reddit.
Drusas@fedia.io 3 weeks ago
I think the fediverse is already seen as inaccessible enough as it is.
Acamon@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Yeah, I know what you mean. Asking people to join and then not be able post seems a bit shit. Same with the light moderation in most communities, when there’s a comparatively low level of posts, do we really want to be removing posts for being “off topic”?
But I also think that can backfire. I’m pretty close to leaving YSK and mildlyinfuriating because it feels that half the posts are just variations on politics. The tagine of “YSK” is a place for all the things to make your life easier. Looking back through the last 20 posts >75% are to do with politics, bad people and their misdeeds. I hate Boris Johnson, and people should be told he’s a corrupt ass hole, but we have communities for politics which is where that belongs.
Ragebait is always going to do well, it’s how our brains are wired. So if we don’t want all communities to end up being mostly “this is bad, you should be angry and sad” then we need stricter moderation. It’s a mistake to think more posts = more content. If most of the main communities of lemmy are overrun by these kinds of posts, the only new users it’s going to attract are people who want that, and the problem snowballs.