**Why YSK: ** I’ve noticed a few communities which have been abandoned by the mods entirely (the ones I’ve seen, have only been a single mod). This means the community never gets the traction it deserves.

Just a FYI, you can ask Lemmy World admins for ownership of communities community and actively moderate it, to help revive them, if you believe they are no longer being moderated

Some general indicators are:

  1. No Comments / posts by the mod in years
  2. There is only 1 mod in the community, but, no posts by them whatsoever
  3. There has never been a post at all (even if you check old).

I’ve seen a few communities now with a lot of potential (like c/debian), and some of those communities even have regular contributors (who may not have even realized yet that the mods likely disappeared years ago).

Even if you don’t think you can post super regularly, posting every few weeks is better than a community with no ongoing posts.

  • tal@lemmy.todayEnglish
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    9 days ago

    I’m saying that you can’t tell when a mod is active just by their post and comment history. Admins of an instance can, but we can’t.

    You can’t see if someone is logging in and purely viewing things. Only someone’s home instance admin can. However, you can see voting activity on somewhere like lemvotes.org. If someone hasn’t voted on anything in two years, say, I’d give pretty decent odds that the account probably isn’t active.

    That’s not an absolute guarantee that a user is gone. Maybe someone uses an alternate account for all their activity, and one account just for modding. Or maybe they are just a really hardcore lurker, who doesn’t ever post, comment, or vote.

    But I’d generally operate on the assumption that for most users, if they aren’t posting, commenting, or voting for extended periods of time, that their account is probably inactive.

    EDIT: It might be interesting for Threadiverse instances to expose this publicly. Like, if an account hasn’t been logged into for over a year, publicly flag it “inactive”. Maybe randomize the time delay a bit so that bots can’t scrape it to figure out exactly when someone last logged in. Not sure if there’s any way that that that could be exploited, but it might leak a little information, and I don’t think that for the purposes of determining whether someone is still around, an exact time of last login is required.

    • auzy1@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      2·
      8 days ago

      I was actually thinking the same… We really do need a “Last Logged in”