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)

  • Blaze@sh.itjust.works
    01·
    1 year ago

    Well, at this very moment, it’s their team. They put an icon, a sidebar, a few users are posting.

    I don’t see what’s your issue here. Why not join them if you want to mod that community? I’m sure they would be happy to have you onboard

    • ktr41n@lemmy.worldOP
      2·
      1 year ago

      I feel like you, and several others, are entirely missing the point.

      Its not that I want the community so much as I am concerned about the squatting aspect at large.

      • Blaze@sh.itjust.works
        01·
        1 year ago

        Well, if they are squatting and not doing their jobs as mods, then people will ask the LW admins to remove them, and that’s it.