Community squatter?
Community squatter?
So, I just kinda stumbled into one of the communities here (/c/casualconversation) and noticed it was empty, nothing in the sidebar, but figured it wouldn't hurt to make a post & try to help it out.
Well, uh, I happened to look at the moderator's profile and XeNoX has apparently been pretty busy making a load of communities here. Technically nothing wrong with that, and I'm not super familiar with lemm.ee's rules regarding this, but I thought it might be worth giving folks here a heads-up.
On the plus side, you have a bunch of communities already open that just need some more moderators & descriptions/rules set up, lol
Ah, the nouveau "landed gentry" has arrived... :-)
Loads of them are just duplicates that already have established communities on other instances anyway, so there's not even a point to it other than someone trying to get their name on things.
Or confuse users and fill the community with garbage and ads.
It’s great for the resume!
Hiring manager: So, what qualifies you for this position?
Applicant: I moderate more than 200 lemmy communities?
Hiring manager: The hell is a “lemmy”???
Hey, we have a process for taking over communities from inactive mods on lemm.ee.
Copied from our FAQ:
How can I take over an inactive community on lemm.ee?
- Make a post in the community you want to take over
- DM me (@sunaurus) 1-2 sentences about what your plans are for the community, and a link to the post you made in the community
If the community you want is really inactive, then I will be happy to pass ownership to you!
yeah what the fuck. can we ban these clownshoes?
One good thing about Reddit, you could make a stupid community and it'd never go away. But it never caused anyone a problem either.
My solution is admin approval before community becomes listed. And some guidelines about conditions for approval, which are applied fairly.
Conditions for community removal should be pretty extreme, and also fairly applied.
Infinite Anonymous accounts should always be a thing, but rules could limit community creation to accounts with realistic behavior, that have enough activity to not be alts.
Well has anyone sent /u/XeNoX a DM asking him what his plan is for these communities? Maybe he came from. Reddit and just wanted to create the communities and would be happy to make people mods if interested. Just wondering.
BTW/c/interestingasfuck seems to be in the same waggon
They've posted some explanations before, as have done other people who follow the same pattern. Basically it's to make it easier for people who are migrating into the feddi/lemmyverse to post stuff on the instance they land on, without having to deal with some of the quids of federation so abruptly.
AFAIK, the people who tend to create communities with that pattern (people, not bots) are more than happy to give them away to more responsible people since that's kind of the point.
Disclaimer: I've thought of doing the same for helping discoverability of the stuff I moved here from reddit for.
Yeah, it's really unfair and wrong that the admins don't take away those empty instances and stop letting people squat on them. I've been trying to make instances in earnest all day only to discover that most of them have been taken by squatters like XeNoX. That's not right.
There is a process, as sunaurus explained https://lemm.ee/comment/1051463
I also find it interesting that the mod has created a community named after himself. Also, maybe there could be a rule that only members that have been already registered for some time can create communities? This mod account is still relatively new.