It looks like I will be the main moderator of this community for the time being, and I intend to remove any comments calling for violence or murder. In many circumstances that wouldn’t have to be explicitly stated, but here we are.

I will try to keep the comments free of divisive political topics, but the memes themselves will be allowed to reference contemporary events, so long as they are funny.

I have faith that neither the admin nor the users will cause any undue problems. My hope is that this community will be a light to us all in dark places, even when all other lights go out.

Just to clarify, as far as I understand, this LOTR meme community and the mods here were not directly involved in that incident. I believe the comment was made on a different community on the Midwest.social instance, and removed by the instance admin.

I understand that you’re in favor of it and I see your point, but I just wanted to clarify the language. Especially with people talking about new users coming to Lemmy, its important to help them understand how it all fits together.

There’s no such thing as a community admin, an admin is basically supervising the entire server/instance (midwest.social), and community moderators run individual communities (such as !lotrmemes@midwest.social) that are hosted on a particular server/instance.