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A good example is https://lemmy.world/c/documentaries

One of their mods, https://lemmy.world/u/sabbah, currently mods 54 communites despite only being on Lemmy for about a month and has never posted on c/documentaries (except for his post asking for people to join his mod team).

The other mod, https://lemmy.world/u/AradFort, has one post to c/documentaries and moderates 18 communities.

Does Lemmy.World have a plan to remove this kind of cancer before we start getting reddit supermods here too?

Edit: This comment shows how this is even more dangerous than I had thought.

Edit2: Official answer from LW admin is here

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[–] BitSound@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Can you comment or is it documented somewhere how "active" you and the other admins are planning on being RE mods? i.e. do you see community management as being more hands off, and if there's a bad mod then people should make a new community, or would you want to step in and try to fix things? Reddit mostly took the approach of being hands off, which had some nasty side effects and is why a lot of the comments in this thread are wary of powermods. IMO if you and the other admins were to be proactive in modding the mods, that would probably solve a lot of people's worries.

[–] antik@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

We know that that doesn't cover everything and the instance is only a month old so it's hard to imagine what comes next and be pro-active.

We try to stay hands off but sometimes there is no other way but to intervene. Like here: https://lemmy.world/post/1661949