Community Requests - Lemmy.ca

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Please post here if you wish to request moderation of an unmoderated community. Include details of why you are applying to take over the community.

Communities will be considered unmoderated if the community moderators have had no activity within the community for a month. All requests will be vetted and reviewed by the Lemmy.ca Admin Team, who will give the community moderators 5 days to appeal the request.

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Announcing the Launch of CommunityRequests (self.communityrequests)

submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by SourCreamAndGarlic to c/communityrequests

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Howdy folks,

We're launching c/CommunityRequests to combat a growing issue on Lemmy.ca in general, which is unmoderated communities. What this will do is allow you to apply to take over an unmoderated community by posting in c/CommunityRequests a request to take the community over. Ultimately we decided to steal the system used on Reddit, but with some modifications to make it a bit more fair to users submitting requests.

Our initial guidelines are as follows:

A community will be considered unmoderated if the moderators have not interacted with the community for over a month.
Users may request communities where no moderators are interacting with the community.
Moderators within the community may ask to have the top mod replaced if the top mod is inactive, but other moderators are still active.
In both cases, moderators have 5 days to appeal the request. If no appeal is received within the time-frame, the request will be granted by the Admin Team to the requestor.
Requests made in bad faith will be rejected. For example, requesting a community you have been permanently banned from for justified reasons, or requesting a community in order to completely change the purpose of it for the worse.

These guidelines may be adjusted a bit as time goes on. This is a new system and we're going to need to try things for a bit to see if they work or not.

In any event, feel free to start using the community immediately. Please give us feedback on your thoughts and ideas!

Cheers, Ms. SourCreamAndGarlic

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[–] LillyPip 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

Is there a way to make c/ links clickable? Is my client (Memmy iOS) the issue or the instance? I want to subscribe, but there’s no link. Sorry if I’m just clueless; still getting my sea legs here. Thanks!

[–] TruckBC 6 points 2 years ago (2 children)

You need to format it like this: [email protected] and it will make it clickable.

cc: @[email protected]

[–] SourCreamAndGarlic 2 points 2 years ago

That actually makes a lot of sense. Between that and Markdown it's easy enough.

[–] Undearius 2 points 2 years ago

You can also add a splash at the beginning, and put the domain at the end. This should automatically link on the web version of Lemmy.

/c/[email protected]

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

I'm not sure if there's a way to make that happen automatically, but that's a good point. I've edited the original post manually to link them to the community. :)

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

That worked, thank you! Subscribed.

Out of curiosity, what did you do to make it a link?

[–] SourCreamAndGarlic 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

I'm using the Web UI, so I just made it a link that way. If you're on mobile you should still be able to do that, but you may need to do it manually. The format is usually two square brackets surrounding the text you want displayed, followed by two parenthesis including the link you want it to go to.

[–] LillyPip 2 points 2 years ago

Awesome. Thanks so much, and thank you for modding!