[Dormant, please move to [email protected]] Movies and TV Shows

Sweet. I wonder if I can spam everyone on this list with just one reply.

A pinned post works wonders.
Not this nonsense.

Fuck off

Hey, please not that it's against lemmy.world TOS (and probably against the TOS'es of some other instances) to do this. So if you are planning to do this when moving a community, please don't.

Fuck is this spam.

Imagine you worked in a big company, and one day eight months ago the marketing team had a meeting where they were playing a new promotional video loud and you stuck your head round the door and watched to the end of the 1-minute ad, stuck your thumbs up, said "good ad" and left. Then this week, you get an email saying they'd gone through the CCTV footage and found that you'd been in a marketing meeting in the past, so because the marketing team had decided to change the branding, and that everyone who contributed in any way to marketing discussions should be on board, you personally should start attending marketing meetings every Thursday morning at 9:15 to help steer the new vision, and vote on new ads every week. You would be pissed off.

Please do not assume that everyone who ever made a drive-by comment on one of your posts that reached the front page is someone who wants to subscribe to your new community, and absolutely don't come in my inbox to instruct me to go to a community based on the authority of some vote I wasn't in. I wasn't the one making your community lively, it was the people creating engaging posts.

You complain that people wouldn't see your pinned post? Well, it doesn't matter to anyone except people who were going to post. You don't move a community by moving the commenters, you move a community by moving the new posts. Put it in the sidebar, put it in a pinned post, put it in the title of the community (like you have), just above the button you have to press to post. If your post creators move to your new community, great, and if they continue to post great stuff that gets random lemmings like me to comment on something interesting, even greater, but it's absolutely not OK to spam everyone to tell them to go subscribe.

You're not in charge of non-subscribers in any way, and the only authority you have to grab my attention is good content that people engage with.

If you build it, they will come. This is not building it, this is just spam.

It's really really hard to resist the urge to go to the new community and block it. In your understandable desire to build the new community, you have incomprehensibly tried to force people to do what you want. You're not my boss. I just commented a couple of times. Look up Aesop's fable about the wind and the sun.

If I were an admin, I would with no hesitation whatsoever be perma-banning the bot account and temp-banning the humans involved in the decision too.

Spam: don't do it. How on earth would you possibly not realise this was spam? What on earth made you think it was OK to spam everyone who ever interacted even slightly? Why do mods think they're in charge of users choices?

@[email protected] @[email protected]

What the fuck.

wtf is this bullshit

I recommend that you change the display name to "[Dormant] Movies and TV Shows", to make it obvious in search results.

Unsubscribe.

The automated migration notification is interesting, I assume it's everyone that was subscribed to the old one. How does it work?