(I haven't submitted an official rfc yet, want to see what people think)
This is inspired by Ruqqus, a now defunct Reddit alternative.
The idea is simple:
- There is a "global" or "default" community with no topic or extra rules, ~~moderated only by admins~~
- Community moderators, when they feel a post is inappropriate for their community can "kick" a post to the global community
The reasoning is as follows: a good amount, probably the majority of posts that are removed by mods, are not removed because they are inappropriate for the site as a whole, but because they are inappropriate for that specific community (off-topic, banned site, low effort, etc.). But currently the only option they have to deal with this is a full blown removal, which is quite frustrating for the poster.
This proposal would allow mods to keep curated communities without needing to do unnecessary removals.
As a bonus, this would create a default community where people can post when they're not sure where to post something. Posts can be later be crossposted into more specific communities.
i like this. i think for now as a workaround: one could lock the topic and leave a comment asking the OP to crosspost it elsewhere, with grace for posts which have high engagement (as ladfrombrad suggested).
i don't agree that crossposting works to 'move' posts. as far as i know: the OP is not notified when their topic is crossposted by someone else, and in that case they also won't be 'subscribed' to comment notifications.
So furthering on this would shunting things to a [email protected] (maybe a somewhat better named community since I'm terribad at these things might work better....) within Instances but still viewable and crosspost-able by other, Instance users?
This would negate the need for a global admin since the Instance could have mods of that particular /c/, allowing the other Instance admins to review it for suitably if and when they drop in?