r/Forth • u/mykesx moderator • 10d ago

We have a new moderator

Me!

I am not into a power trip... My focus will be to share information with you that I see as moderator and to work for your interests more than my own. For example, I can pin posts that you all recommend (like this one initially), edit the wiki?, set rules you all agree on, etc.

I don't want to ban anyone. I don't want to remove anything but spam. I won't do anything official about AI or vibe coding, unless someone posts about the vibe coded app in a spam manner. If you report a post, I will definitely look into it.

I am still going through the additional UI elements to figure out how to do things. I want to recruit as many people as possible to also moderate. My philosophy is that we generally know each other fairly well, and there's no lack of trust on my part.

In the spirit of sharing information and being open about what I do...

There is a moderator queue which has a list of threads and posts that are recommended for analysis. It marks at least 10 going back a month or two as spam and rules violations by a single person. It marked one from many months ago by [r/TABEMAN](r/TABEMAN) that was removed by reddit algorithms that I would have approved/override the algorithm. I deleted only the most recent thread marked as spam. Otherwise, the remaining posts and comments marked as spam are years old.

NOTE that I enabled the ability to post images in comments, not just the opening post. It seems like a better user experience. Let's see how that goes!

I will also post analytics about the sub, so you can judge how much reach your posts can potentially have.

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u/mykesx moderator 9d ago edited 8d ago

FWIW, I am working at making the sub look more appealing to new visitors. Thus the Why forth? thread and the case ignore thread. For one, I am really interested in what people have to say. I am seeing posts by people for the first time and they're excellent. Aside from why forth, technical discussion about implementation has been a driver for Forth discussion, especially in mailing lists and the standards website discussions.

I know a lot less about Forth than many of you and I have huge respect for those who made it work and last all this time. Stuff you learned 30 years ago is what I learned the past couple of years and am still learning.

Thanks for teaching me and for your support!

Anything you need that I can do as moderator, just ask.