Hi all!

On reddit I’m the main moderator for a cryptography subreddit, https://www.reddit.com/r/crypto and I’m considering migrating it.

There’s a few cryptography subreddits (one named cryptography which is the main option), the main difference with the one I run is we’re a bit stricter about being on topic and thus maintaining higher quality discussions (in part because we’re under a heavy flood of spam bots, so we need to filter strictly). We got plenty of people over there who are professional cryptographers

I see there’s also a cryptography forum on this instance, but it’s very scattered and doesn’t really have very high quality posts. I wouldn’t want to just take over an existing forum here, if I move the reddit community I’d like to recreate /r/crypto as a new forum here and establish it with all the same rules, etc.

Is there interest from the admins for that here? And how dedicated are the admins to maintaining this instance in the long term? (I don’t want to have to move the forum multiple times)

And how much interest is there from the lemmy community?

(sidenote - this time around I’d handle moderation from a separate account, not from my main)

      • Natanael@infosec.pubOPEnglish
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        10 days ago

        … Does it not have granular access right control? The FAQ doesn’t describe any delegation

        Edit: ok, “trusted” users can have specific permissions. Need to check details. Would be great if it could be extended to recognize forum specific mod teams, and for example let teams share specific rules (on reddit it’s common that certain subs share intel on spammers, etc)

        Edit 2: will go through it tomorrow. Will port a bunch of rules from the reddit automoderator setup. About time I convert some of the stuff to regexp.