!climatechange@lemmy.world is now yours. Since you also moderate !climate@lemmy.world I’ll leave you to lock it if you like.

!climate@lemmy.world was just resurrected a few days ago, so now we have two redundant climate communities on this instance. Would it make more sense to lock one of these communities and direct people to the other?

If you really want both communities open, then I can give you the mod role for !climatechange@lemmy.world. The current mod definitely appears to have left Lemmy.

Of the three community mods, it looks like xohshoo is still active on Lemmy every couple of weeks. Have you tried messaging them directly? If not, that should be the first step before we consider taking their community and handing it to you or someone else.

Taken care of now. Thanks for the heads-up.

Removed.

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Locking this community and directing users to !star_wars@lemmy.world seems reasonable to me. I would normally want the moderator to weigh in, but @PowerOfGamers@lemmy.world appears to have been inactive on Lemmy for almost a full year.

I will pin an explanatory post and lock the community. We can always unlock it later if something changes.

You can PM one of us admins about it via Lemmy or Matrix.

If it’s an active community then we’ll pass it on to the rest of the team to see if a new mod can be found. As I type this, my lemmy.world reports dashboard shows 363 open user reports. We need attentive mods in our active communities to handle those; the admin team can’t possibly keep up on our own.

If it’s an inactive community then we will probably just leave it alone. The incremental cost of having one more inactive community on the instance is negligible. On the other hand, intervening has the potential to create trouble if the mod eventually logs in and sees that their community has been changed/locked/removed while they were away.

I assigned you as the moderator to !popculture@lemmy.world

Assigning/removing mods is a manual process handled on a case-by-case basis. There is no official policy about removing banned users from their mod roles, though that doesn’t seem unreasonable.

Communities with no mods (or absent/inattentive mods) keep humming along until something brings them to the admin team’s attention. There are hundreds of communities like that on this instance. Lemmy.world does have a Community Team who try to find and address communities that need moderation help. It’s a big task, though.

Nope. It’s still an open request: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/3710