Voting on a post is not a fair way to conduct a poll because (1) each instance shows a different amount of votes due to federation delays/issues, (2) some instances disable downvotes, and (3) downvoting decreases the visibility of posts in the main feed
The poll only ran for 20 hours and you didn’t state when it was going to close beforehand
I’m putting further pressure on this because:
The community seems to be divided pretty evenly on this proposal
This community is named lemmyapps, not fosslemmyapps
Some of us have privacy-respecting, non-tracking, no-ads apps that do not follow the FOSS model for good reasons
Your accounts are all less than 10 days old. Nothing necessarily wrong with that, but an introduction from our new moderator would have established a bit more credibility before making quick changes like this.
Here are some alternative solutions we could discuss:
Leave this community as-is and create a new community for free, open-source apps
Prioritize free, open-source apps in this community with megathreads or title requirements
If you’re still wanting to restrict this community to FOSS, do another poll that more accurately and fairly counts votes (using something like StrawPoll potentially).
Regardless, please take the time needed to do this fairly and consider both sides. Changing the topic of a 5k-member community based on a 50/50 or even 60/40 vote should not be taken lightly.
and it appears you might be banned from an instance.
I don’t think so if i am can you give some proof as i would geniunly love to know
Nothing necessarily wrong with that, but an introduction from our new moderator would have established a bit more credibility before making quick changes like this.
I didn’t feel the need to . And i don’t think mods even do that
If you’re still wanting to restrict this community to FOSS, do another poll that more accurately and fairly counts votes
I can do another poll if the /c/ wishes me to but for the moment let the /c/ stay like this.
Might have spoken too soon, sorry. I saw you were banned on awful.systems but looks like the ban was an accident (modlog).
You don’t have to do any of that, I was just pointing out that none of us really know who you are, where you came from, or how you became a mod here. That makes the decisions you’re making for this community more difficult to receive.
If another poll (through StrawPoll or something else more fair) is the only option you’ll consider, I vote for that. I still think a separate community for FOSS Lemmy apps would be best given the results so far, but it’s ultimately up to you
I still disagree with how this was executed:
I’m putting further pressure on this because:
Here are some alternative solutions we could discuss:
Regardless, please take the time needed to do this fairly and consider both sides. Changing the topic of a 5k-member community based on a 50/50 or even 60/40 vote should not be taken lightly.
Well put.
Do you have more details on this?
Oh, spoke too soon maybe, looks like it might have been accidental https://awful.systems/modlog?page=1&userId=3525901
I’ll remove that from my comment
FYI, I raised the issue to the LW admins on !moderators@lemmy.world
And ?
I don’t think so if i am can you give some proof as i would geniunly love to know
I didn’t feel the need to . And i don’t think mods even do that
I can do another poll if the /c/ wishes me to but for the moment let the /c/ stay like this.
Might have spoken too soon, sorry. I saw you were banned on awful.systems but looks like the ban was an accident (modlog).
You don’t have to do any of that, I was just pointing out that none of us really know who you are, where you came from, or how you became a mod here. That makes the decisions you’re making for this community more difficult to receive.
If another poll (through StrawPoll or something else more fair) is the only option you’ll consider, I vote for that. I still think a separate community for FOSS Lemmy apps would be best given the results so far, but it’s ultimately up to you
I know about the ban i kinda asked the mod to.
This seems completely arbitrary, and a decision you made alone as opposed to at least half of the community’s will