Want to get yall’s feedback on community squatting.
There are a good amount of communities with zero posts, comments, etc, as well as some users who have created communities but aren’t trying to grow them or even post to them in any way.
I’d rather have the creators of communities be someone who’s at least contributing to them.
Some options are, occasionally deleting communities with little to no activity, or limiting modship to a small number of communities.
Implement a request feature to request a subs name being forwarded to someone else, if someone can deny or approve then that’s their choice, but if it goes weeks or months without being denied or accepted, the change is granted… DEPENDING on the number of active users on that sub. If it’s only 1-5-10 people, then it should pass, but if it’s hundreds+ of active people then it shouldn’t pass. Also if a community actively has over 50 users I think they shouldn’t even get the option for people to request the name.
Besides this, I would not touch inactive communities. Please limit the amount of moderation that happens, ideally one person should NOT have control over all instances. It should be user led. This is a major issue with other social media. Developers should intervene maybe at a LAST RESORT (illegal stuff, etc) but besides that it should be left 99% of the time up to moderators for that sub imo.