Announcing the Launch of CommunityRequests

Howdy folks,

We’re launching c/CommunityRequests to combat a growing issue on Lemmy.ca in general, which is unmoderated communities. What this will do is allow you to apply to take over an unmoderated community by posting in c/CommunityRequests a request to take the community over. Ultimately we decided to steal the system used on Reddit, but with some modifications to make it a bit more fair to users submitting requests.

Our initial guidelines are as follows:

  1. A community will be considered unmoderated if the moderators have not interacted with the community for over a month.
  2. Users may request communities where no moderators are interacting with the community.
  3. Moderators within the community may ask to have the top mod replaced if the top mod is inactive, but other moderators are still active.
  4. In both cases, moderators have 5 days to appeal the request. If no appeal is received within the time-frame, the request will be granted by the Admin Team to the requestor.
  5. Requests made in bad faith will be rejected. For example, requesting a community you have been permanently banned from for justified reasons, or requesting a community in order to completely change the purpose of it for the worse.

These guidelines may be adjusted a bit as time goes on. This is a new system and we’re going to need to try things for a bit to see if they work or not.

In any event, feel free to start using the community immediately. Please give us feedback on your thoughts and ideas!

Cheers, Ms. SourCreamAndGarlic

Vilian,

how do i request will to live?

LostWon,

Well, there’s the !mentalhealth community. Start a topic there, and you could share your story so folks can hopefully help you figure some things out? (I’ll check back there soon myself, for what that’s worth.)

Sturgist,
@Sturgist@lemmy.ca avatar

I’ve heard some not great things about the mods at !mentalhealth

keefshape,

Such as? Gravity of truth is on you here, as the accuaer.

Sturgist,
@Sturgist@lemmy.ca avatar

lemmy.ml/comment/2361282

I’ve seen similar comments from other users, this was the one I was able to find before I left for work.

LostWon,

You know, I kept checking that board but missed the comments here. Thanks for the heads up that something might be wrong at the page I linked. I’ll look into the other possible places (or suggest the dreaded Reddit if necessary, since it seems to have supplanted the old BBS-style forum I used to use).

Sturgist,
@Sturgist@lemmy.ca avatar

All good 👍

Lexam,

Ok so I made /c/cats but there is already a large cat forum. Is there a way I can delete the one I created?

SourCreamAndGarlic,

If you’re the creator of the community you should have a trash icon on Web that lets you delete the community.

https://lemmy.ca/pictrs/image/06ccfe0a-5634-4919-9f53-eb31b94d8b53.png

Lexam,

Thank you!

jerkface,
@jerkface@lemmy.ca avatar

I’d prefer six months rather than one month absence. It’s really not an urgent problem that can’t be dealt with less intrusively most of the time.

TruckBC,

Unfortunately it’s a bigger problem than you’d imagine it is. There are numerous fairly active committed that are essentially unmoderated at this point

Zamboniman,
@Zamboniman@lemmy.ca avatar

I think the one month with no moderator activity should only be applicable if there is other user activity in the community during that month. For small, specific, and (so far) very quiet communities I think a month of no moderator activity if there’s no activity at all yet doesn’t make much sense.

SourCreamAndGarlic,

In some cases, communities are set to be moderator-only, which is to say that only moderators are allowed to post in them. As well, we want to avoid community squatting by power moderators (think 20+ communities with no interactions) who create communities so they can keep controlling them later on when people suddenly start using them. This was the bane of Reddit’s existence, and something we don’t want to have propagate over to Lemmy.ca under any circumstances.

Regardless, this is why we have the 5 day window for moderators to respond to let us know what’s going on, so we can get that context. Ultimately we don’t want to reassign a community unless it’s obvious that the user moderating it has no interest in actively moderating, or is holding onto it in bad faith.

Thanks for contributing. These are perspectives we want to keep in mind.

otter,

My only suggestion would be to maybe make the window a little longer. While I use Lemmy a lot (and I used Reddit a lot too), I can see 5 days being too little for some people who are busy with work to write up a proper explanation.

At the same time, I guess there is a question about how well moderated a community is if no one checks in for 5 days. Could you have it so that the request needs to be acknowledged within a week, but a proper explanation has a longer window?

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