Is Lemmy.World going to do anything about community squatting?
Is Lemmy.World going to do anything about community squatting?
A good example is https://lemmy.world/c/documentaries
One of their mods, https://lemmy.world/u/sabbah, currently mods 54 communites despite only being on Lemmy for about a month and has never posted on c/documentaries (except for his post asking for people to join his mod team).
The other mod, https://lemmy.world/u/AradFort, has one post to c/documentaries and moderates 18 communities.
Does Lemmy.World have a plan to remove this kind of cancer before we start getting reddit supermods here too?
Edit: This comment shows how this is even more dangerous than I had thought.
Edit2: Official answer from LW admin is here
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Should do what Reddit did and make a takeover request subreddit. Admins would step in on subs that are clearly abandoned or squatted on and relinquish control to users who requested it. Nothing is lost anyways, since the subreddits were dead to begin with. Same can apply to the Lemmy instances.
But there are options?
- Tag me in a community you think is abandoned.
- Post in !support@lemmy.world or !moderators@lemmy.world
- send an email to info@mastodon.world
We might not always react as fast as you like but this isn't our job it's a hobby project and sometimes there are other, more important issues that have to be handled first. But we will get to it! Cheers
I think you guys have done a pretty kickass job. And your team's responsiveness with the big issues has been enough to impress my cynical ass. Appreciate you guys.
Appreciated.... Gonads 😅
Ha! Decided to go with my gamertag on Lemmy, which I created like 17 years ago around the age of 14.
Was inspired by this old (now cringeworthy..) OG flash video from the early days of the internet.
My gamertag was suganutz so I don't know what is worse
Here is an alternative Piped link(s): https://piped.video/BorQ_ULcvss
Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.
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Can you comment or is it documented somewhere how "active" you and the other admins are planning on being RE mods? i.e. do you see community management as being more hands off, and if there's a bad mod then people should make a new community, or would you want to step in and try to fix things? Reddit mostly took the approach of being hands off, which had some nasty side effects and is why a lot of the comments in this thread are wary of powermods. IMO if you and the other admins were to be proactive in modding the mods, that would probably solve a lot of people's worries.
- There are moderation rules laid out here: https://lemmy.world/post/424735
- There are the Lemmy World rules here: https://mastodon.world/about
We know that that doesn't cover everything and the instance is only a month old. It's hard to imagine what comes next and be pro-active. We try to stay hands off but sometimes there is no other way but to intervene. Like here: https://lemmy.world/post/1661949