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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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