Hey all! Friendly neighborhood mod here!
I’ve just been added (along with @FlyingSquid@lemmy.world (HEY SQUID!)) to the OTHER World News community, “worldnews”, totally separate from this group “world”.
The reason being, the mods there had effectively retired. Hurts, the lead mod, stepped away and hadn’t been active for MONTHS, and post and comment reports were PILING up, to a point where the Admins asked in our Discord chat going “Hey, what’s going on with worldnews?”
Which left ME confused, because “world” has a friendly name of “World News” and is generally up to date on the report queue unless two users are engaging in:
Which, (sigh), happens way more often than I’d like, but what are you going to do?
Before they left 5 months ago, Hurts had pinned a question to worldnews asking, basically, “Do we NEED world AND worldnews?” which I think is a valid question.
There are some key differences, world doesn’t accept video links or text pieces, but there’s no rule against that in worldnews, so it’s a little more free-form than world, although both require legitimate news sources.
So for now, consider the discussion OPEN! Keep them both? Close one or the other?
The volume difference is pretty dramatic:
world:
worldnews:
As a mod, it’s my right to ignore your report as well as reply to the thread to add context.
Today is, largely, considered a monotheistic holiday even though the vast majority celebrating it is blissfully unaware of the polytheistic origins of it.
I didn’t call you out on your report, I simply left the comment in situ as it broke no rules, and added context to it.
Oddly enough, I come to this discussion not caring what your “rights” are lmao. I’m here to care that a community that handles a tremendous diversity of topics is run in a professional manner.
Your response has made it clear that you don’t value that at all, so genuinely thanks for the confirmation that you will continue this behavior.