A good example is https://lemmy.world/c/documentaries

One of their mods, https://lemmy.world/u/sabbah, currently mods 54 communites despite only being on Lemmy for about a month and has never posted on c/documentaries (except for his post asking for people to join his mod team).

The other mod, https://lemmy.world/u/AradFort, has one post to c/documentaries and moderates 18 communities.

Does Lemmy.World have a plan to remove this kind of cancer before we start getting reddit supermods here too?

Edit: This comment shows how this is even more dangerous than I had thought.

Edit2: Official answer from LW admin is here

Final: Was going to create an issue for this on the Lemmy github, but I browsed for awhile and found that it had already been done. If anyone wants to continue the discussion there, here it is - https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/3452

Perhap we need another issue for the problem in the original edit (It being impossible currently to remove a ‘founding’ mod without destroying either the community of their account)

  • InvaderDJ@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Having a rule against the mass creation of communities with malicious intent is not a big ask in my opinion.

    How would you define malicious intent and how would that apply to the situation OP is talking about?

    • Izzy@lemmy.world
      1·
      1 year ago

      Just making a community and doing nothing is malicious in my opinion. If you had no intention of engaging in the community you made that is malicious intent.