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Probably a petty good idea. But what constitutes inactivity. Just being idle off of the platform or not using the specific instance they purport to moderate?
I'd start with the account must login periodically, and the report backlog must be kept under 24h.
So if someone isn't around, for whatever reason, the community gets paused until they come back.
I'd say under 24h is kinda harsh given I can see small instances get autolocked when the one mod is just on holiday or something for a report about idk, a post being offtopic (for instance)
Yeah, and if someone knows the mod is AFK, they could game it with false reports to lock the community.
The login tokens are long-lived, so that'd be hard to track unless they login from different devices. I don't think the API provides any way to tell the "last activity" of a user aside from the last time they posted/commented.
It's a good idea, but I just don't think Lemmy has the requisite "tracking" to make it work right now.
In theory since reports are attributable false reports would get someone banned (from the community at least) for report abuse. It's not a perfect proposal, but the bones are here to enforce distributed workflows off the admin's shoulders.
Yeah, in theory. I guess I was just looking at it from the angle of someone spinning up alts to fire off reports like that and being a dickhead. I used to have a much more charitable outlook, but I've been here 2 years and have had that beat out of me lol.
Indeed, my tolerance for zero-post accounts causing havoc is near zero.
Lemmy sorely needs a reputation system, which could be used for weighted reporting.
This is just the first pass of a idea, its only to mark abandoned communities as abandoned, even if there is significant lag (like when a session token expires) its still a improvement and workload reduction on admins compared to today.
I'd say mods should be able to ban users who serially downvote in a community that they don't contribute to. And more importantly, once banned, the user can't read or vote in that community anymore. Temporary bans would be helpful; a week or two, a month, etc.
Sure, they'll create new accounts. Mods should be able to restrict new accounts until they've built up a decent vote count - we'll call it aura or ambiance or something.
100% agreed with you, I think minimum reputation, account age, or participation requirements are a must for lemmy to grow.
Every new community starts as a niche community.
Yet in the meantime, it can cause communities to lock-up. I would argue a week is more realistic. Plenty of communities are that abandoned.
All the communities I mod are niche enough that I don't think every 24 hours is strictly necessary, though I am active enough to hit that requirement. Something big like [email protected] definitely needs that kind of requirement, but my quiet little communities are probably okay with twice a week, although I do check Lemmy about everyday anyways—more active users tend to be more likely to be mods.
I agree its harsh compared to the current default , but if they are not around then its the admins responsibility to moderate spam or abuse in their absence. The solution to someone having a 3 day weekend isn't that the admins get no weekend, its the moderators of a community need to recruit more moderators, or checkin periodically