you've been added

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

you've been added

looks like those all have active mods except for thots, not sure if I just forgot to scratch them out or if the mods have since returned but I'll add you as a mod for thots

I like this idea, I don't think I'll heavily enforce it but it is a good idea, I've added it to the rules

you've been added as a mod but at least one other mod is active there so you're not top mod

I can give you those but if I do I'd like you to also do a search for mods to help, because you'd have like 8 communities to manage at that point

I've posted the lists of communities, please take a look at let me know!

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!