Please read the rules and fix your post title!

depending on what app or version of the site you're using, they'll be in the "sidebar" or "about" section of a community

not sure if I forgot to scratch it out or if the mod is now active again but hotwife's mod is active, and thickfit has already had a mod added, you'd have to reach out to them to see if you could get added to the mod team

you've been added

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Ok, you've been added to those aswell

if things scale up sure, if you're fine now then you're fine now

I think you're very right about a misunderstanding of what upvotes and downvotes do on lemmy, the system that serves posts to users is very simple in lemmy, and some semblance of an algorithm would help a lot.

I also think the downvote issue wasn't as big of an issue on Reddit because they've always fudged their numbers post scores, even moreso when the platform was smaller. They would intentionally make the number of votes fluctuate to prevent downvotes brigading and they would even limit how many votes could be applied to a post at one time. That's why the top posts of subreddits used to stay the same for literal years, if that many peoples votes made it through, that meant the post got REALLY popular. Maybe that's something else we could look into.

AutoMod tools are the answer, if a comment has certain keywords, or even a negative sentiment a good automod can remove the comments pretty much immediately. We've talked about automod for awhile, and I definitely want it, I'm going to start experimenting with existing solutions soon.

We're working on the hostility aspect, it's slowly improving, and we're slowly getting more OC posters, it just takes time.

As an admin I see more and more posts in general and more OC posts every day. Our growth is slow and organic, and until there's larger roadblocks on reddit it'll probably stay that way, but given reddit is going public this year, we will most likely see some of those road bumps start to happen.

Until then, the admin team and mods are working to get her to reduct toxicity and make it a good place to post, we've even implemented some bespoke code to prevent mass downvotes, and we're talking about implementing some sort of automod. We will continue to improve the experience as best we can and we will continue to slowly but surely grow.

No worries, thanks for fixing it!