It seems like our birding community here has reached 1 thousand subscribers! I am very glad that there’s this many birding enthusiasts here on Lemmy already :-)
I just want to take this time to welcome everyone to this community (do you still say “sub” even here on Lemmy?) and hope you enjoy your time here :-) Been seeing a lot of interesting bird posts here lately already.
Now, this is the first time I’ve ever moderated a community like this so I’ve no idea if there’s anything that’s missing. If you have any suggestions, feel free to tell me!
First, thanks for taking on the task of starting this community! I’m enjoying it so far and have posted a few birds myself.
I’ve been a mod of a few subreddits, both small and large. I don’t think you need a whole lot at this stage but it might be worth putting in place some rudimentary rules so that, if you need to remove posts or comments, you can point to a rule when you do so. These can be pretty simple and obvious like:
Another thing that could be useful is a bot that cna label posts with the bird’s species when they are identified. I’m not sure if there are good bots that could just be dropped in place, but it might be worth looking at what is used in /r/birding.
+1 for rule no. 3
Not only is it nice to know who took the original shots, but it’s also very neat to see OC being posted!