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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What happened when you posted about this in !support@lemmy.world? If no traction there, you can always email info@lemmy.world

They would likely need to be deleted, unless things have changed since this comment was made.
- They would likely need to be deleted, unless things have changed since this comment was made.
  
  Oof, that's rough. I hadn't realized that.
  
  @antik@lemmy.world
  
  Tagging you in this thread too. Sorry if this isn't the most effective/preferred method
  
  If you're interested in one of those communities and the mod is still active - pick it up with them first. In cases where the mods have abandoned the community completely we as admins can transfer the community to a new mod/team.
  
  Edit: https://lemmy.world/post/1661949
  
  Good to know, thank you! Was just interested in LW's official stance.
  
  Thank you for the response! I had begun to wonder about this too, since I've seen a few examples of it in passing.
  
  🥇

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