MetaFilter is a 21 year old noncorporate social media community that has taken its culture and moderation very seriously. Scanning the questions of their FAQ is probably the quickest way to look for anything that might be worth consideration.
A few innovations/pages/FAQ questions that come to mind:
- From my own memory of it (as a cishet), MetaFilter lead the way in making a safe social media space for the trans community.
- MeFi Community Guidelines
- Content Policy
- What does ‘threadsitting’ mean? What does ‘threadshitting’ mean?
- Moderators are paid positions
- Why was my MetaFilter post deleted?
- Why was my MetaFilter comment deleted?
If you happen to have about 600000 hours of time to spare for reading everything that’s been written about that subject on metatalk you could probably learn quite a lot about moderation best practices.
You might start with What does ‘threadshitting’ mean?
Threadshitting is either early snark, noise, “who cares” or joke comments in a newish MeFi thread or someone repeatedly making off-topic or noise comments in a thread often as a way of derailing discussion. Early threadshitting comments are frequently deleted.
I’d love a lemmy/kbin metafilter channel.
Interesting, thanks for sharing. I haven’t been there in a while
