Hello everyone,
As the previous mod went missing, I got mod rights on this community. For full transparency, see the history between this mod and I: https://lemm.ee/post/44845348
So,as you probably know, the "movies and TV" space is quite busy on Lemmy. At the moment, there is, by order of active weekly users, first one being the most active
For movies:
- [email protected]
- [email protected]
- [email protected] (the one we're in)
- [email protected], a new one, see this thread: https://feddit.org/post/8934906?scrollToComments=true, trigger was power tripping from LW mods
Details:
https://lemmyverse.net/communities?query=movies&order=active
For TV shows:
- [email protected]
- [email protected] (created recently: https://lemm.ee/post/57792851)
- [email protected]
- [email protected] (seems abandoned)
https://lemmyverse.net/communities?query=television&order=active
As you can see, it's quite messy, with a few recent communities. You see people from time to time mentioning how the first "multi-community" they create on apps like Voyager is one to get all the movies communities in one feed.
There are a few options we could consider here
Option 1. Lock it down and redirect to other movies and TV communities.
People were already not posting a lot lately, most of the activity happening on the other communities listed above. There would still be plenty of options (at least two on each topic).
A script can be used to ping everyone who posted and commented recently to make sure that people follow through. Example: https://lemmy.world/post/24312613
Option 2. Keep it open
Leave it open, and accept that people may not find the more active communities, and post here from time to time.
Other options - your suggestions
Feel free to provide your suggestions in the comments.
As a note, I'm not offering a "give a new mod team", as any person wanting to volunteer as a mod would we welcome on [email protected] (application post in the sidebar)
So if I'm seeing this right, just on lemm.ee there's moviesandtv (this one), showsandmovies (more popular than this one, but seems poorly named and really is just focused on TV), movies (the largest one you mentioned), and now television (the newest). Seems fairly redundant to have 4 comms for 2 topics on 1 instance.
I would say just redirect this one to the more active showsandmovies. Obviously there's demand to have a combined community of both movies and TV and that would actually fix its naming issue, plus having a combined community there would help justify the existence of the new television specific comm.
Yeah, I made television because I didn't think showsandmovies mod team was active. I was then headhunted to help out there. I don't know where television stands now though even if I think it has the best name for... well, tv-posting. Whilst I agree with "showsandmovies" is an odd name as its been repurposed for TV primarily... but it seems to be the most popular and developed.
But whilst you can obviously overlap to some degree, movies and tv are just as commonly separate communities so from 4 you can get at least 2.
I'm going to discuss with Skavau and the other mods to find an option that works, we'll come back to you once we have something