I came across !gaming@piefed.social recently and found there is no way to make posts in the community. I tried contacting the mod a couple of weeks ago but they seem to be out?

The community (which has over 1k subscribers) itself is locked and users cant post. Is there a way to unlock a community?

  • Skavau@piefed.socialEnglish
    12·
    2 months ago

    Are you up for taking it over?

    The tools here absolutely exist. I am willing to respond to this but I would need @rimu@piefed.social opinion on what guidelines there should be for abandoned communities and replacing the moderators since this hasn’t come up yet in discussion.

    We should decide on a process, standards and then put up a post imo.

    • katy ✨@piefed.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      4·
      2 months ago

      imagine if there was a way to nominate a user to take over a community which would need 3 other people to second it at which point it would open up voting to all members of the community for a week or so. this could make it so it would avoid hostile takeovers.

      • Skavau@piefed.socialEnglish
        8·
        2 months ago

        That would be interesting for future cases, but most community requests now will be for inactive communities that were dead on arrival or long-abandoned. They don’t really have a base to start with.

    • mesa@piefed.socialOPEnglish
      2·
      2 months ago

      Honestly no, I would like to post! But modding yet another community is too much.

      Replacing mods has always been a sore spot in any moderated community. Im personally not sure what the best way to do it.

      At the moment, having forever mods works as long as the community is nice, well maintained, and/or no real issues. As soon as there are “problems” with either mods or community, we end up in the API apocalypse where admins are removing mods from their platforms.

      I think if a community is locked for a certain amount of time, if a number of dedicated users want it to open back up, they should be able to do so. Like 100 or so users? This is just me spitballing.

      • Skavau@piefed.socialEnglish
        5·
        2 months ago

        I’m happy to open it up, but a bit concerned about it being unmoderated. Although that’s probably de facto true for lots of communities all across the fediverse.

        I meant more about abandoned communities being claimed by other people to take it over in terms of how much time should elapse before you just remove the old inactive moderator and put the new person in.

        • mesa@piefed.socialOPEnglish
          3·
          2 months ago

          I’m happy to open it up, but a bit concerned about it being unmoderated. Although that’s probably de facto true for lots of communities all across the fediverse.

          Fair enough. Maybe we can put out a call? Or remove the community from some of the feeds its part of?

          I meant more about abandoned communities being claimed by other people to take it over in terms of how much time should elapse before you just remove the old inactive moderator and put the new person in.

          Its a good point, im personally thinking 1 month as a lot can happen in 30-ish days. But its an arbitrary number. I also might be over complicating this haha.

  • Agent_Karyo@piefed.worldEnglish
    6·
    2 months ago

    I think the LW philosophy is fair; you message them or create a new post in the support comm and they generally let you take over abandoned communities.

    • mesa@piefed.socialOPEnglish
      4·
      2 months ago

      I can see this working in smaller instances/one offs (which I hope they all are). but it sounds exhausting to constantly be pinged by users. But IDK maybe it will work for us now.

        • mesa@piefed.socialOPEnglish
          2·
          2 months ago

          If uesrs in a community had a way to communicate with admins, remove mods, etc… to the reddit admins there may have not been such a push-back when the API apocalypse happened. Maybe.

          Maybe we just think about it and revisit when it actually becomes a problem.

          Its probably preemptive on my part. We have mostly good communities around the fediverse.

      • Agent_Karyo@piefed.worldEnglish
        21·
        2 months ago

        An option to help manage this is to allow requests only via the help community (explicit post with the right flair) and say triage the requests once every two weeks.

        Just a thought.