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)

  • Izzy@lemmy.world
    161·
    1 year ago

    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.

    • quat@lemmy.sdfeu.org
      1·
      1 year ago

      Find an instance with active and good admins? Maybe they are very busy, in which case it’s also a good idea to decentralize.

      • ktr41n@lemmy.worldOP
        4·
        1 year ago

        The call to join ‘their’ team. Also, why did they create a community they had no interest in modding / participating in to begin with?

        • Blaze@sh.itjust.works
          13·
          1 year ago

          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

          • ktr41n@lemmy.worldOP
            11·
            1 year ago

            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.

            • Blaze@sh.itjust.works
              12·
              1 year ago

              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.