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Where are the moderators? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 day ago by doomsdayrs@lemmy.ml to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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I noticed that "Ask Lemmy" only has 4 moderators.

That's a single mod per 12k~ subscribers.

Or a single mod per 250~ users daily.

@14specks hasn't made a post and comment in 2 years.

@tmpod@lemmy.pt hasn't in 4 months.

@Cloak in a year.

@mekhos in 3 years.

Where are the mods?

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[–] Bassman1805@lemmy.world 45 points 1 day ago (3 children)

I don't think "mods per user" is that important of a metric. "Mods per daily/weekly/monthly post/comment" is a more useful gauge of a community's activity.

[–] dopaminejunkie7396@kbin.earth 6 points 1 day ago (2 children)

agreed on this.

Are there any numbers how many mods a community should have?

[–] Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 16 hours ago

As many as necessary to keep the users in check.
Are all participants civil, you need only one. If everyone is feral and posts 10 comments/30min that are worth moderation, maybe 1 mod ler 10 users.
Some mods can take a 100 users, some only 10.
A mod is not like an API you can rate limit lol

[–] ada@lemmy.blahaj.zone 14 points 23 hours ago

As an instance admin, if I regularly see reports for a local community that break community rules but not instance rules that sit without action for 24 hours or more, that's when I'll get involved with the community to try and get more active mods.

If the reports are for posts that break instance rules, I'll action them whether or not there are local mods active.