Meta @aussie.zone Baku @aussie.zone 5mo ago

Do we have an inactive mod policy, or something like RedditRequest?

There's no communities I think need better moderation, or any that have no active mods (that I know of), but if there is one day, can somebody make a request to have ownership or moderation powers transferred over to them?

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Since you brought it up, I'd like to bring up my gripe with the brisbanetrains head mod. Dude's been entirely inactive except for the one time they came in, removed my weeks-old post and told me it was because of some drama without explanation of what said drama was. I messaged second mod who said they couldn't get in touch with them.

Not a huge deal because the community's basically dead anyway and there's no good reason its content can't go in [email protected]. If something were to be done about it though, I'd propose the current second mod being given the job instead. They were at least active on the site.
- Oh, that's me. Yeah that was really weird. I ended up just reapproving your post myself since they never replied to me either and I don't understand why it was removed in the first place.
  
  To be honest I'd support shutting it down entirely and merging with c/Brisbane. Or maybe doing what Nath suggested and creating one big C/AustralianTrains community and merging into that. I only keep c/MelbourneTrains active(ish) because I live here and am looped in with what's happening, but I've found it difficult to keep up with what's going on in Brissy. Same with Sydney, although c/SydneyTrains's inactivity is mostly due to laziness on my part
- Sounds like the start of some delicious sublamington drama
- Huh. That is weird. Un-modded that account.
  
  There's no concept of a "head mod" in Lemmy. There are only admins and mods. They're all equal within those tiers.
  
  Can one mod never remove any other mod without admin intervention? Cos that's basically the only power higher-ranked mods have on Reddit.
I mean, you can simply ask. 😃

In terms of responding to user reports, I take care of most of those all over aussie.zone. Even if I'm not listed as a mod in a community, I still review the reports.

As to curation of communities, I'm personally very light touch. I'll nuke spam instantly, but generally permit the community decide what to do about content beyond that. We may reach a critical mass someday where that won't be sufficient, but I don't think we're there, yet.

If someone wants to really get involved and manage a community, I'll support that, too. I'd love to see an /r/askhistorians here, for example. I don't think we're a large enough instance that I need worry about power-hungry types becoming tyrants in their communities. It's also trivial to un-mod them again, also. So

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