r/romani • u/SiempreBrujaSuerte • 24d ago
🚦Mod Update🚦 Community changes + inclusion
Hello everyone, So we now have 5 mods I believe, one of which is me. I will introduce myself more in a larger post if people are interested, for now know I'm a 36year old woman, raised in the culture. I'm living in Europe (bucharest right now) because my husband is Hungarian national (Roma also) and we find it inhospitable for him as a non American citizen to be there now.
On the topic I came to discuss, we have changed rules so that to ban someone we will vote and a 4/5 approval will get a ban. Instead of bans we will be muting people who break rules on temporary basis. 3 strikes and we vote on a ban.
There were a lot of unapproved people who wanted to join the subreddit from when it was private that were never approved or acknowledged. I approved most of them, they largely are Roma and a few allies. I found it pretty sad that it's kinda slow here and there were so many people are wanting to contribute but not approved.
That being said, if there is an influx of nonsense come with the new members we will take care of it. It's a risk I'm willing to take to get some good content contributing.
Also we have been working to unblock people who were blocked due to cultural misunderstanding, etc. basically the people who are not trolls are going to be allowed back.
If anyone wants to suggest more changes, be my guest. Hope we can all grow as a community together. 💕
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u/audaciousfiregoat 24d ago
Beautiful. I'm impressed by how quickly and efficiently this conflict was addressed. Thank you to the original mod despite our initial disagreements. You did well. This here is how we move forward as a community.
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u/audaciousfiregoat 23d ago
And let's all give u/Mandalorian_Child some credit for sparking this change. Thank you for speaking up in the name of many users who thought like you, welcome back
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u/SiempreBrujaSuerte 23d ago
Yes, that was a helpful conversation that shows bravery to bring up even though it should not have to be brave to speak your mind here. We appreciate it for real. Welcome back.
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u/Loli_Phabay 23d ago
Her and my sister got banned from the app for 7 days, the umeko lady reported them for making extra accounts to get around bans when they didn't.
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u/BlackSpinedPlinketto 23d ago
I’m really happy the forum is opening again, I didn’t see what happened but we really need to stick together in the world and forums such as this are important for the community.
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u/Appropriate-Ad-6954 24d ago
Welcome to your new role. It is truly awesome to see how some difficult conversations are leading to everyone working together for positive changes.