I just wanted to make a post with a quick thank you to @Pat12 who moderates /c/skiing for helping out with moderating this community. @Rudd made a good point that each community should have enough moderators that spam won’t sit around.

I think it is important to have more than one moderator for wilderness sport communities in particular. Many of us enjoy trips beyond cell phone range and the community deserves prompt attention to spam and other undesirable content.

My goal is to build a community where we can discuss back country skiing on our own terms. I chose lemmy.world because the overall server rules appear to be reasonable. I don’t intend to make any additional rules unless something becomes a problem. I do hope that others will volunteer to help moderate this community as we grow.

I am always open to suggestions about how to run the community better so feel free to comment or send me messages.