This thread showed up in my community today, and it brought to mind that I don’t think there’s a policy/guideline in place for Lemmy.World to handle community closures/abandonment.
Presumably where abandoned communities are concerned, the idea is to rely on folks contacting the admins to request them so they can take on moderation & try to build up activity. For closures, however…It gets a bit more complicated.
I’m sure it would depend on the circumstances, but what would we want any such policy/guideline to look like? E.g. should moderators have to give some advance notice or open the closure to discussion, so that if the moderators simply found themselves too busy to moderate they could find someone else to take on their responsibilities?
Personally I have an idea of how I’d handle it, but I’m sure many other mods may as well, so it seems like having some policy/guideline concerning this would be a good idea going forward.
Thanks for adding these considerations Prior & @[email protected], I was pretty tired & bouncing between monitoring the thread that inspired this post and so wasn’t sure how to articulate the situation concerning mergers.
Instead I was obviously more concerned with the subject of closing/locking communities abruptly & abandoned ones, but the action of closing a community to direct folks to other communities for merging is very much more the crux of that thread. I think at the time I wrote this post I had already mentally elevated that concern to something for the admins to handle, leaving this subject as one more open to sort out policy on.