The problem
471 communities on lemmygrad but many are inactive. We want to revitalise them and make them active again!
The solution
We’re gonna give communities with inactive moderation to you, the users. This will allow you to edit the sidebar, sticky posts, and in general provide a sense of pride and accomplishment.
The goal is that you will do something with the community to help it be active if it’s not, which includes posting there. But no stress, we’re not setting up quotas.
You can claim any community if:
- the moderator or moderators have not been active for 6 months or more.
- the community is moderated by one or more administrators of Lemmygrad.
For example, you could claim !me_ira@lemmygrad.ml because one moderator is an admin, and the other two have not been active over a year.
A community can be active in posts and you can still have it, the only criteria we look at is moderation presence.
How to do that
To claim your community, post a comment here detailing:
- a link to the community you’d like (you can use the ! character to link automatically as you type, just give it a second to load)
- also notify the current moderator/s (you can tag them with the @ character). Some may just be lurking.
- why you are able to claim it
- what your plans are for this community and
- why you would be a good fit for it
We are looking to give communities to non-moderators first.
What happens next
We review your application, it’s not an automatic grant. We wait for the owner/s to say something and if they don’t, then we’ll name you as mod alongside them first (you will need to comment somewhere in the community for us to do that). Down the line if you feel like it, we can talk about making you sole moderator.
Some context if you’re interested in that
We have many legacy communities from the creation of lemmygrad and then the great Genzedong migration from 6 months ago (which is why it’s our cutoff point). At the same time, us admins were the most active users on the site for a long time and so we created a lot of communities too as they were needed.
We are moving towards self-moderation and as the site grows, the admins should take a step back in moderating content. We also hope that we can revitalise those communities that have been left to abandon to increase the content (both in quality and quantity) on lemmygrad.
(This post has been heavily edited to cut down on length)
i’ve never moderated a community before, but i would be willing to try moderating !music@lemmygrad.ml. looks pretty dead, not sure what the mod @Karlovious@lemmygrad.ml thinks about it
mostly i would be interested in framing music within a marxist framework, along the dialectic of theory (music theory, or how we think about music; no 19th century theory required) and practice (the act of playing AND listening to music). i don’t have a lot of spare time, but ideally i would like a community that bridges the gap between formally and informally trained, experienced and inexperienced; a space where people can share music they’re listening to, and basically just share their thoughts about it
as far as why i might be good for it, i have a musical background and like talking/learning about music theory, practice, and history. you can see this by looking at my comment history here lol. i’m also pretty open to all kinds or levels of experiences and different types of music theoretical frameworks.
If Karlovious chimes in we can ask them about the rest of their communities too. Otherwise I might still be able to get in touch with them to ask them directly.
sure, just let me know!
Karlovious has notified me all of their communities are up for grabs so I can name you sole mod there, you just need to make a post there.
nice, here is my comment there that i just made, let me know if that works
named you mod. Get back to me in a month if you want the community to yourself, though I don’t think Karlovious will be coming back any time soon considering they gave me the go ahead to redistribute their communities.
thanks! o7