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?

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[–] fonix232@fedia.io 6 points 1 week ago (3 children)

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@piefed.zip 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

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 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Blaze@piefed.zip 1 points 1 week ago

I would take the bet. I've been discussing with other mods/community builders on !fedigrow@lemmy.zip 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.

[–] Rekall_Incorporated@piefed.social 2 points 1 week ago

This sounds like a much better approach.

[–] kingofras@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

Love it