c/conservative has been left modless. I’d like to request to moderate and clean up any misinformation on this community.

I am consistently online here and prepared to take on the responsibility.

Thank you for your consideration!

The requested community link is !conservative@lemmy.world

Additionally, I’d also like to request !fastfood@lemmy.world as for that one it seems a spam account created it and has since been abandoned for months

ETA:

Given the controversial nature of the comms topic, I have decided to add a proposed set of rules that I was thinking about, to keep it strictly parody without going off the rails:

  1. Parody With Purpose: This is a space for humorous takes on conservative politics. We welcome satire, but draw the line at content that promotes racism, sexism, homophobia, or other forms of bigotry.
  1. Memes Over Manifestos: This community focuses on humor and parody, not serious political debate. There are plenty of spaces for earnest conservative discussion—this isn’t one of them.
  1. Highlight Contradictions: The best content points out inconsistencies and hypocrisies in conservative talking points. Creative commentary is encouraged.
  1. Public Figures Fair Game: Politicians and pundits can be satirized, but no targeting of private individuals, doxxing, or harassment.
  1. No News Zone: Memes only, news should be sent to the nearest relevant comm
  1. Clear Satire: Make your satirical intent reasonably clear. We’re here to mock bad ideas, not accidentally spread them.
  1. Relevant Content: All posts should relate to conservative politics or ideologies in some way.
  1. Community Respect: Disagree with fellow members all you want, but personal attacks aren’t welcome. Save the criticism for the ideas, not each other.
  1. Moderation Discretion: Mods will use reasonable judgment in applying these rules. We’ll be fair, but firm.
  1. Remember The Purpose: This community exists as a pressure valve—a place to process through humor the often frustrating world of conservative politics.
  • PapaSkwat@lemy.lolEnglish
    111·
    2 days ago

    I support @cm0002@lemmy.world for mod.

    It’s always been a trolling community. From posting articles written by Tyler Durden (of Fight Club fame) to a mod that would ban you for “ableism” and turn around and say all liberals are infected with the woke mind virus, the community did not further conservative ideas. They wanted to present themselves as a space for respectful discussions but there was no respect. Just one side and a ban if you didn’t stay in line no matter how egregious the claims that were made in the post.

    The previous mod knew this. That’s why he was diligent to ensure that server admins never saw any reports. It became an echo chamber with extreme viewpoints that frankly the offline Republicans I know IRL don’t want to interface with.

    If not cm0002, then go ahead and shut it down.

  • SatansMaggotyCumFart@lemmy.world
    75·
    2 days ago

    I still think conservatives deserve a place on Lemmy and in Lemmy.world where incivility and misinformation can be properly moderated.

    The pervious mods of the conservative communities have proven they can’t be fair and unbiased.

    If you look at their hilariouschaos community you can see they are still heavy-handed and thin-skinned more apt to moderate based on feelings than fact.

    I’m still volunteering to run this and/or lemm.ee’s community as a proper conservative community.

    • cm0002@lemmy.worldOP
      61·
      2 days ago

      I see your point, but last I saw there were (excluding .worlds one) 2 “proper” conservative comms and 2 instances (comms on .ee, SJW and for instances HilariousChaos and iirc reddthat) and those are just what showed up from a quick search which is kinda unreliable sometimes so there are likely more

      The way I envisioned it was that eventually would try to reign in one of the others and this one would just be the parody meme comm focused on conservatives (globally too! Conservative ideals aren’t just confined to the US) with !politicalmemes@lemmy.world serving as a more generalist political meme comm and .ee/SJWs versions serving as the “proper/ serious” comms (should reasonable conservative talking point be found)

  • A_A@lemmy.world
    52·
    8 days ago

    i second this motion.
    also, to @remon@ani.social
    i see your position and i suggest you also moderate that community. Otherwise, just let others do it and react later if necessary.

    • remon@ani.social
      73·
      8 days ago

      i see your position and i suggest you also moderate that community

      Oh, I really don’t want to, sorry.

  • remon@ani.social
    2120·
    8 days ago

    .world c/conservative is unmodded now too! Post all the things they hate!

    OPs post history makes it very clear he doesn’t actually want to mod that community in good faith.

    • TheAlbatross@lemmy.blahaj.zone
      171·
      8 days ago

      I spoke about this in another thread, but it seems like a very delicate balancing act to find the right moderator for that kind of community. To be a conservative is to be tolerant of fascists and Neo-Nazis to some degree. In the current political climate, it is inevitable that any right-leaning community will have elements of these abhorrent ideologies. I don’t think fascists and Neo-Nazis should be tolerated to exist in any space. No community as a whole is made safer by their presence, quite the opposite. So any moderator of a conservative community either must not be a conservative themselves or be one of the seemingly minority of conservatives that utterly disavow nationalists and bigotry, but this would put them in a position of poorly representing the community they moderate.

      It’s a tricky situation. And I’m not sure if there’s a solution that both makes sense and permits a conservative community to exist.

      • remon@ani.social
        116·
        8 days ago

        To be a conservative is to be tolerant of fascists and Neo-Nazis to some degree

        That is unfortunatly the truth for a lot of conservative parties around the world these days, but I don’t agree that one personally has to do that to be a conservative. So I really disagree with that sentiment.

        However I do agree that it is a very tricky situation indeed.

        • TheAlbatross@lemmy.blahaj.zone
          91·
          8 days ago

          I’m not so sure. I think there are conservatives who truly believe themselves to be intolerant of fascists and bigots but, first and foremost, they are not representative of conservatives as a whole and therefore may not be best suited to represent and moderate a community of conservatives, and secondly, I’m reminded of the German saying about Nazis at the table. If there is a table of ten people and a Nazi sits down with them and no one leaves, there are 11 Nazis at the table.

          I’ll admit that this is a fairly American-centric view of conservatives and while it may be as you say, similar in other parts of the world, I honestly don’t know enough to agree with any certainty.

      • Kaboom@reddthat.com
        620·
        8 days ago

        Half the problem is that the word fascist is completely overused. And the other half is a lot of people on Lemmy here convinced themselves that deporting illegal immigrants is fascism, when it simply isn’t.

        Trump is not a fascist, never was.

        Frankly, Lemmy is not a place for differing opinions, it’s a place for the far left to circlejerk.

        All I want to see out of this is honesty. If it’s not for conservatives, then don’t act like it is.

    • cm0002@lemmy.worldOP
      123·
      8 days ago

      I have not posted any misinformation, I have pledged to clear up known misinformation spreader links such as Breitbart

      • remon@ani.social
        1316·
        8 days ago

        I didn’t say you did. But you spend the entire morning spamming the community with memes intended to troll the members, exploiting the fact that it was unmodded and breaking rule 6. That’s not behaviour becoming of a mod anywhere and certainly not in a community which you ideologically oppose.

        But hey, not my decision, just providing some background info.

        • cm0002@lemmy.worldOP
          142·
          8 days ago

          I see your point, however, in my view it has been abandoned with the only serious posters posting mostly misinformation and is open to be remade in “a new image”. In fact, it seems the only time “good” source links were posted (i.e. AP news) was after it went modless (for the most part)

  • jet@hackertalks.comEnglish
    1920·
    8 days ago

    I’d rather that community be shutdown and locked then turned into a meme community antagonizing the group it’s named for.

    • cm0002@lemmy.worldOP
      253·
      8 days ago

      locked then turned into a meme community antagonizing the group it’s named for.

      I get what you’re saying, but this specific group already does this to scale. Truth Social is an entire major SM company that, while not explicitly stated, serves to "own the libs*

      Even on the Fediverse there are whole Lemmy/mastodon instances dedicated to “owning the libs”, even this very community has allowed meme/mockery posts to “own the libs”

      Why are we not allowed to have a comm that does the same as long as it’s kept reasonable (i.e. no targeted attacks of a specific user)?

      “Taking the high road” has utterly failed with this group as they have demonstrated time and time again from nationwide down to hyper localized communities, that they will take advantage of that.

      • Donald J. MuskEnglish
        314·
        2 days ago

        I get what you’re saying, but this specific group already does this to scale.

        And are you all happy they do that? Because you’re proposing to do the same thing. So how does that make you any better than them?

        • FabioTheNewOrder@lemmy.world
          3·
          8 hours ago

          Well, being better than them constantly for over two decades has brought the orange Cheeto in power for a second term.

          Maybe it’s high time we try to get to their level to fight them using their same tactics?

          You sound a lot like people attacking Luigi because “violence has never solved anything”. Looks like violence is helping Ukrainians defending themselves against Russia, why couldn’t it also help the middle and poor classes in their fight against the oligarchs? Remember that these same oligarchs are actively killing you by denying your right to healthcare and by filling your body with poisons and microplastics, a violent act is not just a physical one ;)

          And, as many other commenters have already noted, if you don’t like what Cm0002 is doing you can always block his or her posts and move on with your life posting what YOU think should be posted, nobody is forcing you to follow this instance or any content posted by specific users

          • Donald J. MuskEnglish
            14·
            3 hours ago

            Maybe it’s high time we try to get to their level to fight them using their same tactics?

            Ok, so how would you feel if conservatives teamed up and started to take over lib communites. Would you be ok with that?

            Cm0002 is doing you can always block his or her posts and move on with your life posting what YOU think should be posted

            Oh I do. Just because I noted it, doesn’t mean I am THAT bothered by it. I was just pointing out the hypocrisy of it. But I post to plenty of other places and will continue to do so. If he takes over the sub, then I’ll just stop posting there and create other communites.

      • jet@hackertalks.comEnglish
        1225·
        8 days ago

        I think your proving my point. You have no intention of being a good faith moderator of a conservative community.

        You want to stick it to conservatives, fair enough, but I don’t think that fits lemmy.worlds mission for a community, and this it’s better to lock the community

        • Donald J. MuskEnglish
          215·
          2 days ago

          Agreed! I admire your balls to stand up to the wave of hate and downvotes.

          It’s crazy that you get downvoted so much for having a fair opinion. lol

        • cm0002@lemmy.worldOP
          246·
          8 days ago

          What is .worlds mission for a comm?

          I’ve looked through the legal.Lemmy.world/ToS docs and there isn’t anything about mods who take over an abandoned community that needs to “maintain the spirit of the comm”

          There’s a brief blurb about not attacking specific users or groups, but if we go by that, then there’s quite a few different “circle jerk” like comms here that would fall under that and should also be locked

          If we go by the “vibes” of the .world user base at large, it’s quite clear that c/conservative as it was, was wholly unwelcome. Nearly every single post was downvoted into oblivion. It’s also quite clear that the meme posts made after it went modless are what’s welcome.

          If we judge it by the user base at large, the .world user base wants it to be a meme comm

          • jet@hackertalks.comEnglish
            919·
            8 days ago

            Yeah attacking a group, that’s exactly what you’re doing.

            You’re confusing popular at scale, with correct for community. The tyranny of the majority is a problem on Lemmy.

            You can make your own new community, and you can say all the s*** you want to about conservatives. You’re just trying to take a space away from a group you don’t like. I get it, but it’s not right

            • cm0002@lemmy.worldOP
              186·
              8 days ago

              Yeah attacking a group, that’s exactly what you’re doing.

              An LW admin is going to have to clarify what “group” means in the context of ToS, it’s quite ridiculous to ban dunking on a national/global group.

              You’re confusing popular at scale, with correct for community. The tyranny of the majority is a problem on Lemmy.

              There’s no such thing, this line of thinking is what led to the actual problem of the tyranny of the minority that plagues US Politics to begin with, but that’s veering off topic.

              It’s also not like we’re running off people who are coming in with good faith arguments and sound sources to begin with.

              You’re just trying to take a space away from a group you don’t like.

              Your initial post advocated for that exact outcome, “shutdown and locking” the comm is functionally equivalent to taking “a space away from a group you don’t like.”

              We’re not taking a space away, they are free to, and in fact already do, make their own instances. They do not have a right to spread their “content” everywhere they go like some sort of missionary.

              • jet@hackertalks.comEnglish
                615·
                8 days ago

                The fact you have spend this thread downvoting me while we discuss what a good moderator would look like tells me your not the right fit to be a moderator.

                It’s clear your just looking for a fight, and you want to be a moderator to have a one sided fight with the very few actual conservatives on lemmy.

                • cm0002@lemmy.worldOP
                  104·
                  7 days ago

                  Lmao, I thought we were having a decent debate, but ig you were unable to counter my latest points so you switched to complaining about…how I vote? Even though it’s clear others are downvoting you as well lol

      • Donald J. MuskEnglish
        316·
        2 days ago

        cm0002 can NOT do that. He lives online, yet calls other people who post a lot, “trolls.” lol