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To those genuinely interested in moderating (kbin.social)

submitted 11 months ago by daredevil@kbin.social to c/kbinMeta@kbin.social

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@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.

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[–] Hello_there@kbin.social 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] Pamasich@kbin.social 1 points 7 months ago

Make sure to actually mention him if you want this to be seen. @ernest

[–] mules@kbin.social 2 points 9 months ago

@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!

[–] HeartyBeast@kbin.social 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] daredevil@kbin.social 2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

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.

[–] Pamasich@kbin.social 1 points 7 months ago

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.

[–] ernest@kbin.social 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Yep, another way is to choose abandoned from the list of magazines, soon it will be more sensibly sorted ;)

https://kbin.social/magazines/abandoned

[–] PugJesus@kbin.social 0 points 11 months ago (2 children)

There's a 'jailbait' mag there that should just be deleted.

[–] daredevil@kbin.social 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I've taken care of it. 🙂

[–] livus@kbin.social 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

@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!

@Ernest @ernest @PugJesus

[–] PugJesus@kbin.social 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

If memory serves the option is at the very bottom under the first page of the magazine panel.

[–] livus@kbin.social 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

@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.

[–] PugJesus@kbin.social 1 points 10 months ago

Hm. The ones I deleted are removed from my profile.

[–] bluGill@kbin.social 1 points 11 months ago

Seems like names like that should be in a 'if you create the mag you are automatically banned ).