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sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

Maybe bring this up on the !agora@sh.itjust.works as a discussion to get more feedback.

And yeah, I agree. I needed to message the mods of a community once, and I decided to dig a bit. Only one has any kind of activity within the past few months, so I reached out to the only one with activity and didn’t get a response (granted, my request didn’t need one).

So I agree it’s a real problem. We also need to have a mechanism to identify under-modded communities and encourage finding new mods.

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AlligatorBlizzard@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
The Agora might also be a fantastic suggestion for this because agreeing on an instance-wide definition, and policy, for removing mods who haven’t been active for several months might be a good idea. Beyond that, maybe some light formal policies for moderators specifically? I don’t think excessive, or any, policies for moderators beyond that of a regular user, is necessarily a good idea, but it might be an interesting question to discuss.

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- sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Yeah, a set of guidelines would be good. And perhaps some rules for moderation that could result in removal of mod privileges by the admin.
  
  But yeah, discussion here is key. I’m sure a lot of people have opinions here, and many have experience with moderation on other platforms.
  
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  - kersploosh@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    I’m definitely interested in hear other people’s opinions. Posting something in the Agora seems like a good idea. If nobody in this thread does it then maybe I’ll put something up myself in a few days.
    
    For now, @imaqtpie@sh.itjust.works’s suggestion is the way to go: PM one of us admins on a case-by-case basis and we’ll help out.
    
    In the long term, maybe we should set some criteria for identifying dead or unmodertaed communities and locking them? Our instance has hundreds communities, many of which are hardly used and likely abandoned by their creators. I made an effort some months ago to find active mods for the busiest communities, and remove communities with no assigned moderator. I’m not sure what to do with the rest of them, if anything. They aren’t causing immediate problems. And confirming the activity status of every mod is one of those dull chores that has lingered at the bottom of my to-do list.
    
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    sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Perhaps it can be automated then?
    
    Basically:
    
    once/week, compile list of communities with no activity for >1 month
    
    ping all mods of that community that haven’t been pinged recently (say, once/month)
    
    if a mod responds, mark the mod as active
    
    ping admins with a report about communities with unresponsive mods and no activity for at least 3 months
    
    admins would manually review that list and remove mods/communities as necessary
    
    I’m sure some passionate individual could easily write such a bot. But soliciting feedback from the community in the Agora would be the right starting point to determine the rules, and then the follow-up would be a script or something to make admins’ jobs enforcing that suck less.
    
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