196 moss • 2 months ago • 100%

also we still need mods that's still a thing

196 moss • 6 months ago • 100%

With the constant growth of our mod team and the demanding nature of actually having lives outside of niche internet communities, Ada and I have come to the decision that the mod team once again needs to expand. Applications work the same way they did the last two mod calls: Post a brief write-up on yourself and why you think we should give you moderator status, as well as a link to at least one other social media account. (reddit, twitter, instagram, facebook, mastodon, tumblr, bluesky are all accepted.) If you don't want your alts to be public, you can send them as a private DM to me. Applications don't have a fixed close date, but we're looking for at least four new mods in multiple time zones. I will be personally selecting all new additions to the mod team. Please be civil, and good luck!

196 moss • 6 months ago • 99%

I've been seeing a lot of anti-voting sentiment going around. Can't believe I have to say this, but you need to vote. Not only is there more to the election than just the president. (State policy, Senate, house), but not voting is not an act of protest. C'mon guys

196 moss • 7 months ago • 100%

We now have a shared mod email for you to send complaints, issues, praise, ideas, mod applications, really anything to. All of the 196 mods have access to this.

196 moss • 7 months ago • 100%

be sure to add it to your moldposts titles

196 moss • 7 months ago • 100%

be sure to caption moldposts with "moldy Monday"

196 moss • 8 months ago • 100%

be sure to caption your moldy posts moldy Monday :)) sorry for not posting this the last few Monday's I forgot

196 moss • 8 months ago • 100%

Poll verdict: all AI generated content is now banned. moldy memes will now be kept to moldy Monday. on moldy Monday moldy memes are encouraged. on every other day they will be removed. bonus points if minions are somehow involved. you also receive bonus points if your image has two or more filters/watermarks, and is under one megabyte large

196 moss • 8 months ago • 100%

Sorry for two new pinned posts within the span of 24 hours. after coming back I figured some of the rules needed some updating, and it is policy to put any rule change up to vote for the members. The two changes I currently would like to make, is increased enforcement of the moldy posting rule, and a new rule banning AI generated content. moldy posting is when you post a meme that you would find on your aunt's Facebook page or Elon musk's Twitter account. I'm talking properly old, moldy, watermarked, painfully irrelevant posts. I think we should remove them simply because they kind of suck, and removing them would raise the level of quality of 196. I believe we should ban AI generated content because it is exploitative by nature, and I don't think we should be feeding it. please discuss in the comments, and vote on whether or not you think these changes should be made. vote on each change separately. if there are any other rule changes that you would like to suggest, now is the time.

196 moss • 8 months ago • 99%

there's no meme, no spiel, that's it.

196 moss • 1 year ago • 100%

after today I have decided that we need a larger mod team. Please leave applications in the comments. Same rules as last time. Thank you. Link to last time: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/1107520

196 moss • 1 year ago • 99%

The DM was a DM asking us to change our no tankies policy and remove the fuck tankies banner as it was apparently upsetting hexbear users. Apparently tankies view the word tankie as a form of slur. The admin wants us to ally as a form of "left solidarity"

196 moss • 1 year ago • 100%

Edit edit: pls stop voting we already decided. read the post title. I love blahaj.zone and personally wanted to stay. EDIT-I feel the need to clarify that I don't really care either way, I have no ambitions to be an instance admin, I just want to do whatever's best/preferredf or the community- Hello everyone, I'm making this post because I have received a very enticing offer that I think we as a community should consider. Ruud from lemmy.world has reached out and offered to set up our own instance under the domain of 196.social, hosted on lemmy.world's hardware. This would allow the community to exist as a separate entity from any one instance, while also improving stability, as it would not be impacted by The same volume of hacks or attacks. It would also not be affected by Lemmy.worlds downtime as it would be fully separate. The one trade-off is that we would have to fund this ourselves. Ruud says he is more than willing to cover the costs initially until we get some sort of funding set up, but after that grace period we would have to crowdsource the money. He says that the expenses of running a one community instance are very low, however. especially if we don't allow account creation, so it would not take many people to fund it per month. Please vote in the comments whether we should remain on blahaj.zone, or migrate to our own instance.

196 moss • 1 year ago • 100%

***Here's a few things that are happening that I feel should be addressed:*** **-196 is reopening in reddit -our community is causing excessive load on the blahaj.zone servers -i finally figured out how to add newlines in Lemmy markdown** Two of these things are more important than the third but I figured they should all be addressed. First things first, the subreddit. Even though the og subreddit is reopening now, I do not plan to close the community. At this point 196 on Lemmy and 196 on Reddit are both separate yet similar communities and this lemmy community has a sizable enough user base and is active enough I feel closing it would be stupid. Speaking of a sizable user base, the blahaj.zone servers are under excessive load which has been causing the admins to incur fees upwards of $3,000 a month. This is in no small part due to 196 being the fourth largest community on Lemmy. I'm not sure what the future solution of this will be. It seems like they're going to switch to a cheaper service provider which will also cause the entire website to be slower, at a lower cost. For this reason, I think that a future migration to a different Lemmy server may be in order. I will be reaching out to major admins of other communities as well as our own ada to see if the pre-existing community can be transferred, or if we'll have to start from scratch if we choose to move. This is very much a developing situation, and I will keep you all posted. Finally, as you can see. I finally figured out how to add newlines to plaintext meaning that all of my future postings will be much more professional looking. Check out our new and improved rules and regulations pinned post to see just how much of a difference it makes. **You guys are the community, so I'd like to see what you think. Please discuss in the comments section of this post, and I will try to base my actions off of whatever you all conclude on.** ***Also please point out any typos I may have made I voice typed this on my phone***

196 moss • 1 year ago • 100%

Not affiliated or related to 196cord. I am not a mod there, nor my particularly active on discord in general but we both figured that a partnership would be mutually beneficial. https://discord.gg/NPH8pp2GyK

196 moss • 1 year ago • 99%

I haven't so much as touched windows in 2 and a half years!

196 moss • 1 year ago • 99%

Hey there guys! After today's fiasco, I decided that we need some moderators that aren't me or Ada. If you would like to be a moderator, please reply to this post with why you think you would be a good mod, and any previous social medias that I can check out just to make sure you're not a troll (reddit is the most useful but twitter/mastodon/whatever works too).

196 moss • 1 year ago • 99%

-----POLL RESULTS EDIT: NSFW IS STILL 100% ALLOWED, CORPOPOSTING IS NOW BANNED--------- I've been seeing a lot of reports on posts that feature corporate mascots/product worship, as well as properly tagged NSFW posts that are just straight up furry porn. Neither of these posts violate any of our regulations, and in fact the NSFW posts are often perfectly formatted (includes the word rule, as well as content warnings). As I try to keep things democratic around here, I figured I would host yet another community poll. Personally, I have no problem with the NSFW posts as they don't often reach the frontpage and will be blurred so anyone who doesn't want to see that sort of thing can simply not click. I also would personally ban corpo brandpsting as I'm quite anti-capitalist and honestly don't give a shit what the Opera GX brand tweeted about the new grimace shake grubhub mindpump Kony2012 shit-eating competitions. Because this is a poll, however, my opinions mean jack shit. Whatever you guys choose the rules to be will be the rules regardless of what I would prepher.

196 moss • 1 year ago • 97%

196 currently does not have a banner, and that just feels wrong. I have decided that the solution to this is to host a community contest! Link your submissions in the comments as embedded images, and the most upvoted one will become the community banner! Creating original content is encouraged, but not required.

196 moss • 1 year ago • 100%

-edited for results- NSFW Content is now fully permitted **BUT** it *must be tagged.* Any NSFW content that has not been tagged and blurred will be removed. Content warnings should also be added to the title in brackets. Example: [penis] or: [explicit description of sex]. Non-sexualized breasts of any gender are not considered inappropriate and therefore do not need to be blurred/tagged. Yes, even female breasts. IRL GORE IS NOT PERMITTED UNDER ANY CONDITION.

196 moss • 1 year ago • 98%

-edited post to announce results- I will no longer remove cannibal memes, and have restored the posts that I removed. Knock yourself out :D 👍

196 moss • 1 year ago • 98%

==*please incorporate the word rule in your post titles*== **Here are the things that get you banned:** -saying anything remotely iffy with a lemmygrad or hexbear account -tankie behaviour -nazi behaviour -authoritarian behaviour -genocide denial -prejudice of any kind -anything else that is clearly bad **Things that get your post/comment removed:** -AI generated content -anything in the banlist -posts that are so off topic that they don't fit on 196 at all -moldy memes (old memes, crusty memes, irrelevant memes. The type of things you'd see on your aunt's Facebook page or Elon musk's Twitter account with a laughing emoji as the caption) -corpoposting *Ban length varies, and is mostly based off of whether or not I think you will change your behavior. I have baned certain people for upwards of 2000 days.* ---------*EDIT:NSFW RULES*--------- NSFW Content is now fully permitted BUT it must be tagged. Any NSFW content that has not been tagged and blurred will be removed. Content warnings should also be added to the title in brackets. Example: [penis] or: [explicit description of sex]. Non-sexualized breasts of any gender are not considered inappropriate and therefore do not need to be blurred/tagged. Yes, even female breasts. **IRL GORE IS NOT PERMITTED UNDER ANY CONDITION.** 8----------------------------------------------------------- *Please leave any suggested edits in the comments.* JAN 2024 UPDATE: MOLDY MONDAYS Monday is now moldy Monday. on this day and only this day moldy memes are not only allowed, but encouraged. The crustier the better. The type of thing that's been reposted at least 2,000 times with filters and bad crops and watermarks and hopefully minions. please caption with moldy rule If you have any issues, please reach us at 196mods@protonmail.com. PLEASE do not dm me, as I am not consistently available and tend to step away from the mantle for weeks to months at a time.

196 moss • 1 year ago • 97%

there's too many comments and posts for me to view all of them, so the way that we can deal with them is you, the glorious people of 196 reporting them as you see them.

196 moss • 1 year ago • 100%

My main account couldn't moderate here because blahaj.zone is two instances behind, hence the minutes old account