In reply to @magic_rb:matrix.redalder.org
While im all in for multilingual nix and international engagement and all that, i will say that i wonder how much time coverage do 2 users from norway have. The nice thing about having 10 mods all in different time zones is that you cover all different time zones. If you only have 2 people acting as liaison to the mod-team, what happens if those two people are asleep?

As a preface, I don't mean to invalidate the need for moderators. We all agree that's needed.

The way I read your message, it sounds to me like "if any channel doesn't have 24/7 moderation schedule, we should maybe not accept it into the nixos.org matrix space". If my understanding (which I've kind of exaggerated a little to make as clear as I could) is correct(ish), I wonder why this coverage is important?

If there is a channel that's more applicable to one (specific) non-English/Spanish/French, chances are that its use and "time of activity" will generally be limited to the timezone(s) used by the country of said language.

So, my counter-argument to your point (as I understood it) is that:

Are we sufficiently worried about non-policy-conforming activities occurring outside of "times of day" when people generally use a channel, that it's not okay to just remove/deal with it as soon as the timezone(s) this channel is active rolls around?

If so, why? Maybe the answer to why is a simple "because it doesn't look good if someone sees it before it's fixed". If it's that (and not something else), yeah I can see the need to demand sufficient moderators so that none of them would "have to get grumpy because they have to wake up in the middle of their night to fix things".

In reply to @x10an14:matrix.org

As a preface, I don't mean to invalidate the need for moderators. We all agree that's needed.

The way I read your message, it sounds to me like "if any channel doesn't have 24/7 moderation schedule, we should maybe not accept it into the nixos.org matrix space". If my understanding (which I've kind of exaggerated a little to make as clear as I could) is correct(ish), I wonder why this coverage is important?

If there is a channel that's more applicable to one (specific) non-English/Spanish/French, chances are that its use and "time of activity" will generally be limited to the timezone(s) used by the country of said language.

So, my counter-argument to your point (as I understood it) is that:

Are we sufficiently worried about non-policy-conforming activities occurring outside of "times of day" when people generally use a channel, that it's not okay to just remove/deal with it as soon as the timezone(s) this channel is active rolls around?

If so, why? Maybe the answer to why is a simple "because it doesn't look good if someone sees it before it's fixed". If it's that (and not something else), yeah I can see the need to demand sufficient moderators so that none of them would "have to get grumpy because they have to wake up in the middle of their night to fix things".

In reply to @eyjhb:eyjhb.dk
The NixOS matrix space is scraped and have frequently been spammed with CSAM. Which I think is the reason why the need somewhat quick moderation is high.

In reply to @uep:matrix.org
Any team or interest group (whether subject or locality or whatever-else) can create a channel and, assuming it's relevant, ask to have it added to the nix/os spaces. We need to add the moderation bot to the room, largely to take care of applying the shared ban lists and sometimes necessary interventions. We may leave the channel "founders" or team leads as local mods in the channel, to be used according to the team's preferences. That's not language specific. There are lots of language channels where the moderation team don't speak that language.