Some redditor trying be become a powermod on Lemmy
this post was submitted on 16 Aug 2023
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There a reason limiting the number of communities one can create and moderate is a good thing.
For communities, that's 15 to 30, and especially for popular ones (ranging from >50,000 subscribers, depending on the instance), 5
For moderating other communities that OP did not create, preferably 5 to 15.
That also means: no more powermods.
That also means: no more powermods.
Would that really stop it though? Anyone motivated enough would use multiple accounts.
I can't imagine moderating more than 3-4 popular communities, or 6-10 lower activity niche ones. That's assuming I had a ton of free time to do so too!
Pretty dumb. Don’t understand why people do this.
My guess is that it's just an ego trip thing. Farming the good feelings that come from making something if the communities become successful without having to invest the time and effort to be a real part of that success.
If I'm being more cynical, it could be an effort to create a bunch of "ghost town" communities so new users search them out, find nothing, become discouraged and move back to Reddit or wherever. Possibly also burying product promotion posts (e.g. their posts and comments linking to gold/silver/crypto sites) or doing this to maintain mod control over communities in case they become successful later on. The !expatsineurope@lemmy.world, !americanrevolution@lemmy.world, !coldwar@lemmy.world, !encryption@lemmy.world, !odysee@lemmy.world, !dgimt@lemmy.world, !lbry@lemmy.world, !internetarchiving@lemmy.world, !privacycoins@lemmy.world and !goldback@lemmy.world communities lead me to suspect that it's more likely to be the latter case as they've added mods while maintaining their own mod status there.
It is not against the rules or anything, but we will definitely keep an eye on it. Thanks for reporting it to us!
This is a good way to acquire “legit” power mod status.
Step 1: make an alt account which squats on community names
Step 2: have the alt account post open moderator requests on the communities
Step 3: have your alt appoint your normal account as a moderator. Since your normal account doesn’t have a direct connection to the community creation, it’s just seen as a helpful custodian of the fediverse
Step 4: ???
Step 5: profit
My yarn and pushpin budget is too high already, I don't need this kind of encouragement to seek out more ulterior motives and sneaky shenaniganery.
Good point though.
Hey @comcreator here
It is not against the rules to create a community. And I invite people to help moderate these communities and try to get 3-5 people moderating them, I will step down and hand it over once others take them over.
I not here to get power, I want to create communities so they exist, so content can start appearing in them. Many people do not create communities they want to see since they have the responsibility to moderate them.
I even try to contact moderators on reddit asking if they wish to moderate or even take over communities I created on lemmy.
I started !firo@lemmy.world and now no longer control it. Same goes for !antarctica@lemmy.world and !archiving@lemmy.world.
If you wish to help moderate, leave a comment in any of my communities.
Lets make Lemmy great and full of content!