General Discussion @lemmy.world ktr41n @lemmy.world 2y ago

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

Final: Was going to create an issue for this on the Lemmy github, but I browsed for awhile and found that it had already been done. If anyone wants to continue the discussion there, here it is - https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/3452

Perhap we need another issue for the problem in the original edit (It being impossible currently to remove a 'founding' mod without destroying either the community of their account)

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Get with the community admin and discuss if you are interested in it.
- In most cases they are not going to respond either because they are inactive or they are intentionally squatting the names for whatever reason. They can't respond or they don't want to.
  
  Find an instance with active and good admins? Maybe they are very busy, in which case it's also a good idea to decentralize.
  
  In this specific case the call for mod is public, open and with 0 comments of anyone asking to help: https://lemmy.world/post/1036821
  
  The call to join 'their' team. Also, why did they create a community they had no interest in modding / participating in to begin with?
  
  Well, at this very moment, it's their team. They put an icon, a sidebar, a few users are posting.
  
  I don't see what's your issue here. Why not join them if you want to mod that community? I'm sure they would be happy to have you onboard
  
  I feel like you, and several others, are entirely missing the point.
  
  Its not that I want the community so much as I am concerned about the squatting aspect at large.
  
  Well, if they are squatting and not doing their jobs as mods, then people will ask the LW admins to remove them, and that's it.
  
  The issue was explained in the first post, what do you not understand?

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