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)