@Ernest has pushed an update which allows users to request ownership/moderation of abandoned magazines. Ghost/abandoned magazines were fairly prevalent after the initial wave of hype due to users either squatting magazine names or becoming inactive for other reasons. Now is your chance to get involved, if you were waiting to do so.
To request ownership/moderator privileges, scroll down to where it says “MODERATORS” in the sidebar. There will be an icon of a hand pointing upwards that you can click on, then make the request. Cheers, and thank you for your hard work Ernest, as well as future mods.
Ernest, please act on assigning mods to any of the magazines where you are the sole mod. The spam on those is significant and there are people willing to help. E.g. m/internet
Make sure to actually mention him if you want this to be seen. @ernest
@Ernest is the process for approving an ownership request done manually by you? I requested ownership of a magazine a few weeks ago and it hasn’t gone through. I know you’ve been busy with running/improving the site so it might be worth making the process either automatic or give permission to someone you trust to approve/deny. Hope you are having a good one!
Has anyone actually been accepted as a moderator? I requested to help moderate /science a while ago - just because it was full of spam - and I’ve heard nothing - not even a rejection. Still happy to kill spam.
Since @ernest is the owner for that magazine, I think moderator requests have to go through him. Unfortunately, he was dealing with a slight fever awhile ago, and has been dealing with financial planning and project formalities awhile back as well. Hopefully things haven’t gotten worse. For what it’s worth, I think it’s great you’re eager to contribute. There have definitely been some spam issues recently. I hope a solution can be found soon. Maybe even something like posts which have a <10% upvote-to-downvote ratio over a day/week can be temporarily quarantined until an admin approves of it. Anyways, best of luck with modship.
As an added note to the development team @ernest and others:
This has worked pretty well and I’m now trying to clean up the areas I have ownership of now. However, I have a few notes:
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I would like it if, in the case of a community ownership transfer happens, that the original “founder” account was noted on the right hand side with the panel details. It would be nice to know this as a moderator or owner of a magazine as, if the user ever comes back, they could reapply for moderation access and I could approve knowing that the person was actually the original founder. Right now, it would be hard to verify that the person submitting a mod request is actually the person who originally founded the community for example.
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It would be nice if moderators had the ability to add badges to existing posts to help clean up communities that might have had a lot of content but not much in terms of badge management.
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When ownership transfers, it would be nice to get a notification. When transfer of /m/manga and /m/bitwig came to me, for example, I didn’t notice until a few days after since I didn’t receive a notification.
Should these types of issues be posted as a “bug”? Or is it better to just leave feedback here?
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Yep, another way is to choose abandoned from the list of magazines, soon it will be more sensibly sorted ;)
There’s a ‘jailbait’ mag there that should just be deleted.
I’ve taken care of it. 🙂
@daredevil hey how did you get rid of it altogether?
I just noticed we had a “frenworld” (copy of a subreddit that was notoriously racist, antisemitic etc) and requested ownership thinking I could delete it but now it’s listed as a magazine I mod and I can’t seem to either delete it or detatch myself from it. I don’t want it listed under mags I mod! Help!
If memory serves the option is at the very bottom under the first page of the magazine panel.
@PugJesus you mean the Delete button? I hit that but all it did was change it to a “Restore” button.
I think this means people get “Empty” when they visit @frenworld. But the racist magazine is still listed on my profile as a magazine I moderate, which is the last thing I want.
Hm. The ones I deleted are removed from my profile.
Seems like names like that should be in a 'if you create the mag you are automatically banned ).
I assume ownership requests need to be manually approved by ernest, right? I’ve tried applying to some (not ernest-managed ones) weeks ago because of spam on them and nothing happened yet.
Ahhh, I’m so disappointed, I’ve been working on @conservative for months, and really hoping to take it on,
and it looks like I missed out.Back when I started they actually held a poll about whether my kind of nature content would be OK and it was voted yes, so I hope the new owner is pro-conserving things and doesn’t purge it and turn it into just another US politics sub!
Perhaps it’s worth a shot to reach out to Ernest about that. It’s very apparent that you’re one of, if not the most consistent contributors to that magazine. Based off of a cursory glance, the person who took the ownership hasn’t made any contributions. Best of luck.
Thank you for the idea. I’m not sure how to contact Ernest?
He replied earlier in this thread–you could try a DM to start. Alternatively, pinging him here may also be an option. I’m not sure which would be best. Apologies.
Great news, he has sorted it out for me! Thank you for suggesting it!
@conservative is saved!
Oh! You got moderator from me! I’m glad you got it. I liked what you did, and didn’t get rid of any of your posts while I had moderator there. There were some old posts that didn’t fit with the conservation/nature/culture theme… I’m glad it’s in the hands of someone with a vision for the magazine. ;-)
Hi! I didn’t realise.
If you want to be involved there too, I can add you!
Nah, you’re doing a great job! I’ll continue to enjoy it as a normal user.
