Perhaps this is already implemented on one of the Lemmy variants?

New features :

  • auto closing/suspending stale communities
    • stale could be defined as unanswered mod reports, no mod activity (no post, comment, login in x time period), no posts
  • staggered new account permissions:
    • wait 24h before commenting, wait 7 days before posting.
  • allow community users to flag posts or comments as NSFW.
    • Voting changes from up, down to up, down or NSFW.)

Curious what people think about this?

  • fonix232@fedia.io
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    5 days ago

    Instead of closing stale communities, I’d like to see a more federated versions of what Reddit does:

    • a community goes stale
      • this can be further supported by modmail sent to mods requesting immediate active moderation within X days, if that doesn’t happen, then consider it stale
    • all accounts that signed up to the community are notified about it being stale and requesting moderators to apply
    • any account that has interacted with the community in X time (say, the last year or 6 months) can then apply to be a moderator
    • a, say, 30 or 60 day period follows allowing moderator applications and community member votes (not just signed up members but accounts that interacted with the community in Y time, this can be larger than the previous moderator application timeframe requirement). Only those whose first interaction with the community was before the stale announcement are allowed to vote.
    • at the end of the period, the new moderator team is picked by automation based on the votes and total number of applicants.
    • if necessary, the instance owner(s) can also step in to provide assistance in assigning moderators
    • Blaze (he/him)@piefed.zipEnglish
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      5 days ago

      It doesn’t need to be that complicated. Most communities can be requested on instance support communities.

      What usually happens is

      • community owner doesn’t want to close it, even if it’s inactive
      • nobody cares enough to request that community
      • fonix232@fedia.io
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        4 days ago

        The issue with that is as you explained: it’s up to the instance admins (who often don’t care and/or are too busy to deal with it), and visibility due to it happening on instance support community is low.

        Bake it into the service, and I guarantee you, average uptake of new moderators for stale communities will improve.