We receive a lot of reports from this community, and we get the impression that the current rules and moderation capabilities aren’t sufficient for a community like this. While things are quieter right now, during periods of activity this community tends to cause unnecessary strain on the lemmy.ca admin team.
Having additional moderators could help with this, as well as having a more comprehensive set of rules. That way, the community’s mod team can go through the queue more quickly and also take action on users that abuse the reports.
For the sake of a productive discussion, please limit comments in this thread to discussions on how to improve this community, without directly pointing to specific users or situations. Ideally, this will also help to develop better rules (think ‘veil of ignorance’).
When I am going to watch a film, I go to a cinema, buy a ticket and a bucket of popcorn. I don’t stir a movie - the director, actors and other people already have done it for my enjoyment.
One does not stir a drama using popcorn. One brings it when the drama already happened, made by drama perpetrators and participants. We (FediLore participants) are meant not do make drama, but rather to watch it develop.
This isn’t literal popcorn that people eat at the cinema. This is metaphorical popcorn that people metaphorically eat to exalt in their schadenfreude. As you probably well grasp. It’s a metaphor that dehumanizes and humiliates the posts’ subjects, casting them not as real people with real feelings, but mere entertainment for our amusement. That’s fucking shitty.
I invite you to review the posts in this community (or have an AI comprehensively do so) and then tell me that this community does not stir drama.