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RFC - Every community should have active moderators or get auto-locked (hackertalks.com)
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The recent discussion of instance admin burnout has got me thinking about how do we create a sustainable model going forward to prevent admins from being over burdened.

The biggest workload for admins is they become the defacto community moderators for every community with inactive mods, inattentive mods, etc.

I imagine this is part of the overloading stress that caused lemm.ee to throw in the towel.

Mandatory Moderation Model

  • 1 - Every community that doesn't follow the following rules get's autolocked
  • 2 - Every community on a instance needs a moderator
  • 3 - Every moderator must be active
  • 4 - The report backlog for a community must not get stale or too old (24h/48h)

Admin's would be moderator managers, and not get involved in user posts, just moderator issues

  • A - Moderator not following instance TOS
  • B - Moderator acting in bad faith
  • C - Unlocking communities when moderators fix the initial issue

What are your thoughts? Would this help larger instances scale better?

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[-] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago

I would think this all this is perhaps a personal preference on a given instance, but not practical on a global scale.

If an instance owner wants to accept the risk of a chaotic, unmoderated space on their server so be it. Other instances are quite capable of blocking a comm or defederating if it's an instance wide problem.

There's also the potential to blockade new comms on small instances when I think of it here. If I, as an admin of a single person instance, try and set up a few niche comms for personal interests and they where report-bombed by people just being trolls, there would never be a way to get them off the ground. You would spend all your time responding to reports rather than creating content in order to avoid them being locked.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

Yea, this is a very bad idea that will just create even more workload for mods, leading to yet fewer mods as they get tired of having to touch a community just to prevent it being locked.

What will happen is people writing a script just to touch a community on the regular, like the apps that move your mouse so Corp spying apps think you're at your pc.

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