/u/porn was active here briefly, make a load of communitiess like /c/Boobs and has since not been on, leaving those communities unmoderated. I've messaged them about being added to some of them (like they offered), but no reply.

I think the larger communities, at least, should have more than one moderator to cover different timezones, being unavailable or disappearing. I assume that admins can add moderators to comms, right?

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[–] securitas 8 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I've contacted the admins, they're now aware of the issue. They'll try to contact @porn@lemmynsfw.com themselves first before taking any further steps.

[–] StrongSuspect4913 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Did you hear anything back from the admins yet?

[–] securitas 2 points 2 years ago

Other than the initial reply no. I doubt I will though, it would make more sense for them to announce something publicly than message little old me lol

[–] Sarothica 7 points 2 years ago (3 children)

I'm sure slowly there'll be enough mods. But very annoying that the user hasn't been on since. I thought about starting a "bigtittygothgf" community but decided against it because I have no mods.

[–] wankbank 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

My point is that only /u/porn (or an admin?) can add another moderator to their subs, and given that they're not on we already have popular comms without mods.

I think if you start a community here, you should at least add a few posts to get the ball rolling and then stick around to moderate and/or build a mod team.

[–] securitas 4 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I think for this you really need to rope in the admins to create a system for installing moderators to unmoderated communities. That, however, can only happen once there are enough active mods on the site to begin with, which will take time.

[–] wankbank 3 points 2 years ago

I'm not sure we need a system yet, I'm just saying we should address the few communities we have that are effectively unmoderated yet active.

I'm hoping/assuming the admins see this, because we'll need them to do this.

[–] Sarothica 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Hm maybe in the future to surpass this issue, the requirement to open a community should be to nominate at least 1-2 additional moderators? 🤔 And without that a community can't be created?

[–] The_Biggest_Cum 2 points 2 years ago

Well that just made me realize there isn't one here already somehow

If modding Lemmy is anything like other forums I could probably manage to at least some degree to help, and this might be the cause to make me actually get off my lazy ass.

[–] maAlt 4 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Yes, the admins of this instance can add new mods but I think they should create a community for community requests to make it a clear straightforward process.

[–] wankbank 5 points 2 years ago

I also like the idea that the process is out in the open.

[–] StrongSuspect4913 1 points 2 years ago

Yes, a bit like r/redditrequests over on reddit

[–] JayneCobb 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I'd be happy to try my hand at moderating one.

[–] MeccAnon@kbin.social 6 points 2 years ago

try my hand

I see what you did there.

[–] HornyButPolite 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Hey. Just saw this post.

I'm a mod with that user on

Let me know if you want to mod these communities.

[–] wankbank 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I'm mod of !bustypetite@lemmynsfw.com with you already 😉

[–] HornyButPolite 1 points 2 years ago

Oh yes, good. :) I haven't been on here much, been modding on non-NSFW mainly.