I’m mostly concerned about https://lemmy.world/c/newhampshire because I’m from there, but they’re on a range of location and interest communities. Where’s the line for community mod-squatting?

  • MichelleG@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    The Elon_Musk account has been banned for community squatting and being inactive for almost two weeks.

    If there is no activity in a community, it will be purged so that others can use the name.

    If you would like to claim one of the communities, please reply to this comment.

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      1 year ago

      User buelldozer has done the same thing with several communities, apparently reserving them for the mods of the corresponding subreddits.

      I’d like to see c/sexover30 active and would take it over to see that happen.

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        1 year ago

        Thanks @michelleg! Is it also possible to remove him from the mod list? I don’t see a way to do that, and it doesn’t look like they’ve made any posts or comments in the community.

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    !scotland too - I messaged him to see if he’ll pass. No reply yet

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      1 year ago

      I’ve sent you a message regarding the Scotland community. Overall, the team is working on standards for creating communities. Creating dozens to then “squat” will be addressed.

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    It’a going to be up to admins to relieve communities of mod squatters. I believe they have been responsive in the past, I just don’t have direct experience with them.