gday everyone. In response to the recent meta discussion, I’ve volunteered as a moderator for /c/worldnews.

The main reasons I volunteered is to make this comm less generic and more suited to aussie.zone, as well as reducing the stream of drive-by spam posts.

There are a few ways I aim to achieve this:

• We’ll change the community title. I’ve already picked an example title, Overseas News, although this is temporary for now so critique and suggestions are welcome! I picked this name to keep the basic idea of this comm clear while distinguishing us from generic “World News” clones, and so even a federated Lemmy user searching for world news comms to post to will have a fair chance to see we aren’t just an extra opportunity for attention. (I understand it might be confusing that this is still https://aussie.zone/c/worldnews, but changing the comm’s id is much harder and needs a serious discussion first)
• We’ll create basic rules to codify our expectations. I’ve added some already, and again, feedback is wanted. I’ve tried to keep them direct and lenient, based on the previous meta discussion and prior deletions from the modlog. Once we reach a general consensus, I will apply them to posts from the past few months, to set the stage. [edit: this is now in motion]

Let me know if you have other ideas. I’ll be pretty hands-off beyond removing blatant agenda spamming from outsiders and global rule violations, since this is a casual and open community and I have a job and hobbies ;)