If you look at the communities tab and sort by new, more communities there have 0 posts than have more than 10 posts. It seems like people are just making communities for the sake of having something to control, without any interest of actually contributing. Often times the communities are opposing, so it’s not as if the mod actually has knowledge or an interest in all 6 sides.

Is there any discussion behind the scenes on a way to curb this. or is this not a concern at this time because lemmy is still small?

  • m-p{3}MA
    141·
    6 months ago

    That is a good point. I’ll discuss with my fellow instance admins and we will establish some guidelines.

    It definitely doesn’t help anyone is a community is created for no reason than to be the mod and hope it catches on.

    IMO is someone wants to own the community, they need to at least show some effort of contributing to it regularly.

    • DerisionConsultingOPEnglish
      22·
      2 months ago

      Any update?

      This main user that this was about is now at over 100 communities, which are basically all completely empty.

      • m-p{3}MA
        21·
        2 months ago

        Good afternoon, I went through a bunch of those, and anything that was inactive for an extended period of time has been purged, free to be recreated by someone willing to take it.

        There are some communities that are effectively unmoderated but with some content, of course we don’t want to purge those and we’re looking at what is the next step.