A - But not nearly pushing as hard as I used to + I'm largely the only submitter on my comm. Sharing links 2-3 times a day doesn't seem to differ much from 1 time a day, so that's my new target.
I totally agree that hitting critical mass comes with some downsides. I'm hoping that I'll be a little insulated from that if it happens since I try to be more active on smaller communities, but there's always some bleed over.
Thanks for the tip w/ video too! Having to convert is a mild pain, but at least I've got the option and can script away some of the trouble. It worked fine on the website (mobile and desktop) but seems to fail to load entirely with the Eternity for Lemmy app for Android. I'm not sure how many people use that anyway. Maybe the upvotes will tell.
EDIT: Seems like the upstream Lemmy repo merged a fix for the way it handles webm files.
Yeah, that sounds about right. FWIW the original paizuri sub (which I don't moderate) barely has any comments even on its biggest posts in the past year, so it's not like I'm doing much worse. 😋
I just want other people to post so I can add to my own collection. For now, I'm just rediscovering things I've downloaded or artists I should be following, but it'd be better to get from others too.
It's mostly me posting in [email protected], with votes on the posts being either on the cusp of or just barely into double digits for a 400-ish subscriber community. The rough part is that while the number of subscribers continues to grow, the number of people posting and commenting has not. I exchange at most 1 comment or so from time to time with 1 other user.
The slow but steady subscriber count growth keeps me from giving up and stopping, but I wonder when I'll start to see engagement from more than just me. I'm thinking of trying to encourage more low-effort engagement, like [DISC] posts where people can comment with links to doujinshi with related content, but haven't committed to it yet.
Anecdotally, growing and maintaining a hentai-oriented community feels pretty challenging. The instance as a whole is generally IRL-oriented, looking at Local+Active (which isn't a bad thing, esp. w/ the OC posters!). Other hentai posters have either left in search of or been banned for posting content they'd ordinarily post elsewhere. While the reasons are understandable, I think it creates some barriers to visibility and posting in hentai communities.
EDIT: The UX around GIF/Video posting also seems to suck enough for me to not post any to avoid people just seeing still frames instead of an animation, but that's seemingly more of a Lemmy problem than anything to do w/ this specific instance.
Thank you~ I've updated my sidebar to refer to the correct rule number when reminding users to not post any instance-wide banned materials like underage or non-con content etc. etc.
Looking forward to the docs page getting built out progressively to help navigate some of the nuances around some of the more "gray" rules that are harder to adjudicate on. It's a lot of work, and I'd imagine no user will read it right off the bat, but it'll be helpful to refer them to when making those judgement calls and referring users to when they (hopefully) accidentally post banned content. The thought and depth of the work is very appreciated.
Not the original asker, but to clarify the first question: should I take this to mean that aged up are possibly acceptable in this revision as opposed to a complete ban?
I'm not asking this to start posting "oppai loli" content or w/e, but moreso content that provide better context clues for the characters being older:
- Easy Case - Characters sharing a night together after a long day of college classes
- Hard Case - Characters that are physically older and have anatomical proportions resembling an adult
I'm mostly asking this as a moderator since I've taken care to ensure characters depicted in my posts are either canonically 18 and up or at least appear sufficiently old enough (if no canonical age is available) to make it easy on myself, but I'd like to have a better idea of where to draw the line when moderating posts from others, if possible, in a way that suits this instance. (Thanks!)
Hi, not much for me to contribute other than echoing my thanks for managing this instance. I've been too busy to post as actively on my one community recently, but I've continued to check in on posts in case anything needed modding under the current rules.
I would highlight that I do appreciate Limeey's break down of what happened. While I don't think it's reasonable or necessary to provide a full explanation each time, it does inspire confidence in me that this instance will have a team that thinks through its governance in the future.
Some members of the admin team have publicly shared strong views and attitudes that I disagree with, leaving me concerned with the long-term viability of this instance if they dominated the decision-making process. However, it sounds like there's potential for the team to deliberate and find a path forward that toes a balance between being permissive while maintaining a level of risk that the team is comfortable with.
I hope we can see a similar level of clarity and consideration when the next revision of the rules and guidelines are available.
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I don't see it being a benefit in communities in that I mod (hentai, paizuri, tentaclehentai, and hentaigif), so I'm not personally keen on it but I can see why larger communities might want it. I'm no longer as hopeful that a more active hentai-oriented community will develop here, so though I voted "No", I'm a little apathetic about the choice now, personally.
From what I recall, some users use downvotes for more than just spam, like disliking things. This creates a problem when people browse the Local feed and downvote stuff they don't like even if they aren't even subbed to that community. This impacts niche communities and their posters/creators who would get more downvotes from people seeking more mainstream content even if it would otherwise fit that community.
If the goal is just to ward off spam, then unless reports aren't enough, I'd keep downvotes off.