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Squatting on community names / unmoderated communities (lemmynsfw.com)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Just making you all aware of this topic -https://lemmynsfw.com/comment/137224

Please refrain from claiming names that you have no real interest in. Moderation should be based on your passion for a genre or model, not on just "collecting" communities as souvenirs.

Otoh, imo, moderating a community to keep it out of the hands of spammers (they will come to Lemmy soon enough), squatters and bad actors is a legitimate reason.

Thoughts?

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

My personal opinion is that if someone can demonstrate that passion within the community more than myself, I would gladly transfer (give up top mod position of) the community to that individual. I've done that on Reddit before and I will do so here also 😊.

Update: tbh, I have no idea if the concepts of top mod and any hierarchy levels as on Reddit also work the same way on Lemmy - need to find out later

As for your second part, if one is not able to moderate a community, then one should post a note in sub to look for responsible others to add and eventually transfer. An example is at [email protected]

Hope I understood your questions correctly...