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)

  • 👁️👄👁️
    12•1 year ago

    Should do what Reddit did and make a takeover request subreddit. Admins would step in on subs that are clearly abandoned or squatted on and relinquish control to users who requested it. Nothing is lost anyways, since the subreddits were dead to begin with. Same can apply to the Lemmy instances.

    • Antik 👾
      47•1 year ago

      But there are options?

      We might not always react as fast as you like but this isn’t our job it’s a hobby project and sometimes there are other, more important issues that have to be handled first. But we will get to it! Cheers

      • GONADS125
        7•1 year ago

        I think you guys have done a pretty kickass job. And your team’s responsiveness with the big issues has been enough to impress my cynical ass. Appreciate you guys.

      • @BitSoundEnglish
        2•1 year ago

        Can you comment or is it documented somewhere how “active” you and the other admins are planning on being RE mods? i.e. do you see community management as being more hands off, and if there’s a bad mod then people should make a new community, or would you want to step in and try to fix things? Reddit mostly took the approach of being hands off, which had some nasty side effects and is why a lot of the comments in this thread are wary of powermods. IMO if you and the other admins were to be proactive in modding the mods, that would probably solve a lot of people’s worries.