Hello everyone! To start out, I’d once again like to say thank you to every single one of you for being here. We’re building something awesome here together, and I’m grateful you’ve been with us so far.

Let’s go over the changes we made this past week, and tell you about our fresh moderation bot to clear any concerns you may have.

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Changes in the Sidebar

You might have noticed that we made some changes in the sidebar; specifically to our list of rules. The formatting has completely changed to adopt spoilers for rules, which now allows you to expand rules on click, instead of seeing an unkept wall of text in our sidebar.

This means that we now also have a lot more empty text space in the sidebar. Some rules still need further elobaration to fill their empty slots & we’d always appreciate your help and suggestions!

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New Tools for Community Moderators

This community is now a month old! And that comes with new updates to help us moderate & navigate easier. We now have a new AutoMod deployed, though its interaction with members will be kept to a minimum. It mainly does three things: notifying, logging and transcripting. It does not censor any words and doesn’t intervene with our users in any way.

The bot works by transcripting and linking all of the content to a dedicated matrix chatroom(used as a log). This allows moderators to just take a look at the log to make sure everything is okay, rather than scrolling through posts one by one. It also redirects all reports to a seperate chatroom, which is normally used by our moderators to communicate and work together. Moderators can also make the bot send transcripts of comment chains on command, so they can discuss what to do about it together.

note: much thanks to our hardworking moderator @Rooki@lemmy.world for the bot!

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Let us know! How do you like everything here?

Let’s improve our list of rules together, and please let us know any concerns you may have regarding the bot & our approach to moderating. We really want this community to be one truly owned by its users, meaning you, and nothing in this c/ comes before that.

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Matrix Chat Room

To find & join our chat room for casual discussion and support, log into a matrix client and put #nostupidquestions:matrix.org on the search bar. If you’ve never used Matrix before, we suggest you try using fluffychat.im first, as it has a more user-friendly interface.