Hello everyone, I want to address the post earlier by a user who was unhappy about having one of their meta-posts removed which was calling for spin-off communities, megathreads, etc, etc.
This community was started 3 months ago after the lemmy.film instance abruptly shut down and we lost their MoviesandTV community. In that time this community has grown to 1100 subscribers and gets a few hundred unique visitors a day according to sidebar stats, which is awesome. But that is nowhere near enough traffic to necessitate spin-off communities for “reviews”, mod-sanctioned megathreads or other forms of direct mod intervention. This is not reddit and I don’t have any intention of moderating this community as if it were a clone of r/movies or r/television.
I believe the best way to moderate a small community such as this in order to facilitate it’s growth is to be as hands-off as possible. I’m here to enforce lemmy’s rules, those of the instance we’re hosted on, lemm.ee, and to make sure things stay on topic. But otherwise you really shouldn’t hear much from me apart from being another active member of the community.
If you want to have a discussion about a movie/tv show, or share an article, video, meme etc. you are welcome to post it. The community will shape itself organically by deciding what kind of content we want to see through downvotes and upvotes.
There may come a time where this community is big enough to require megathreads to direct conversation about repetitive topics or major news to specific threads but we just aren’t large enough for that to be a pressing issue. So as I said, if you want to discuss a new film or series, please just make a post about it yourselves. Don’t expect mods to do it for you.
Having said all that, I will be reaching out to some of the more active members of the community soon to see if they’d be willing to help moderate. I’d like to add at least one or two people as I fully recognize one moderator running a community can be problematic. So it will be remedied. If you’ve made it this far, thanks for reading and I hope you have a good day!
The default web app has a feature for this. When you’re writing a post, as you type the title, it automatically does some sort of search in the community you’re posting to for the title you’ve entered. So if you write “avatar” as the first word in the title field, it will search the community for posts with “avatar” in the title. Don’t know how many other apps or front ends do the same, but it is actually a helpful feature for exactly this.