Just wondering if there’s a limit as to how many communities one person can moderate? One of the problems with Reddit was that there are several moderators who run way too many of the popular subs. There really should be a limit as to how many subs one person can moderate, maybe 3 to 5, in my humble opinion. Wondering if there is a rule about that here, or if that’s some thing that can be implemented.
Lemmy is not reddit, anyone can spin up an instance and mod their own subcoms, so I dont know how effective such an idea would be.
Maybe just settle in for a bit and not lean into pushing immediately for authoritarian control by admins for what is viewed as an open platform?
Maybe a better option would be to limit the number of communities one can create (or become a mod of) in a limited amount of time? (e.g. you can create or be a mod of up to N communities in M hours/days) This would reduce the number of spam community creation cases and won’t be over restrictive.
Also, anyone can spin up an instance and create any number of communities there, but I think that is a significantly different case than one creating 1000s of communities here. It requires more time spent by the spammer, and most likely some money, which would discourage at least some spammers.
What are your thoughts on this?
https://lemmy.world/post/933111
Guy created an account, made no posts or comments, but has registered 200+ communities and is now a top mod on all of them.
Obvious botting for community squatting is an issue to address without question, and if possible that user needs to be shut off, but limiting a real person’s decision and willingness to put effort into modding several communities will not be an answer when the question isn’t the right one. Bots/squatters can register accounts all day and work around a subcom mod limit with ease. All the proposal on this post does is punish people willing to do leg work on multiple subs without having a real effect on nefarious mod squatting activity.
Ultimately, it would be useful to have multi-community bots that are used to help human mods in the same way it was done on reddit. It is still something we can address as an individual bot/squatter issue rather demand blanket bans that treat it as systemic.
As far as solutions, I think perhaps creating a publicly organized council of public and known admins/mods/users to curate reports and assist with cleanup of this sort of clusterfuck from botters may be the only solution that can be well received if all the work is done in the open.
He’s not a bot, actually. He’s a guy who ran ads on reddit for his kombucha company, that got banned a few months ago (I don’t know the reason). He came here and registered all these communities manually for what reason I don’t know.
https://reddit.adminforge.de/r/pics/comments/14g1sgu/john_oliver_and_you_guys_hopefully_approves_our/