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Protocol for purging inactive moderators? (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 7 months ago by threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works to c/main@sh.itjust.works

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A few sublemmys I moderate have accumulated some inactive moderators.

They weren't bad mods, and I'd happily welcome them back if they become active again, but several accounts have had zero activity for several months. This gives the impression that the sub is better staffed than it is, and I wouldn't want users reporting a problem to a dormant account.

Should inactive moderators be removed? If so, is there a standard etiquette of messaging them every x days for y weeks before removing them?

Some moderators have lower seniority than my account, but a few have higher seniority, often the original creator of a sublemmy during the Reddit blackout last June. How should these cases be handled?

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[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 3 points 7 months ago

Perhaps it can be automated then?

Basically:

once/week, compile list of communities with no activity for >1 month
ping all mods of that community that haven't been pinged recently (say, once/month)
if a mod responds, mark the mod as active
ping admins with a report about communities with unresponsive mods and no activity for at least 3 months
admins would manually review that list and remove mods/communities as necessary

I'm sure some passionate individual could easily write such a bot. But soliciting feedback from the community in the Agora would be the right starting point to determine the rules, and then the follow-up would be a script or something to make admins' jobs enforcing that suck less.