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?
It doesn’t need to be that complicated. Most communities can be requested on instance support communities.
What usually happens is
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.
I would take the bet. I’ve been discussing with other mods/community builders on [email protected] for more than two years now. If someone isn’t motivated enough to request the community on an instance community, they are not going to last long as mods. Not that it’s a bad thing, moderating is not for everyone, but it still needs a bit of motivation.