FWIW, I wouldn’t say the spam issue is a function of the lack of mods in this comm. There seems to be a new person or group of people experimenting with automating the creation of user accounts on fediverse instances and using them to post spam. We admins & mods here and on other instances are in whack-a-mole mode at the moment. Clearly this will have to be addressed in a more systematic fashion.

[–] haui_lemmy@lemmy.giftedmc.com 5 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I agree. Its a systemic issue imo. I'm just trying to help since I very much care about open source and think this community needs to be protected against image loss done by being spammed this way. Thanks for elaborating. :)

[–] davel@lemmy.ml 5 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children)

Yes, in general I see a lot of comms have been abandoned by their mods, which is unfortunate and leaves us few admins having to pick up the slack on comms we’re not even necessarily familiar with. And we don’t currently have any sort of auditing to for knowing a comm is abandoned and haven’t yet developed any sort of playbook or automation tools for it.

And again, we do appreciate the help!

[–] Atemu@lemmy.ml 3 points 8 months ago

Perhaps create a post in such communities asking its users to step up.

Your "job" as an admin should not be to moderate communities but control moderators; removing abusive or inactive ones and appointing new ones.

[–] haui_lemmy@lemmy.giftedmc.com 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Sure, always eager to help. Seeing the work you guys do is impressive. I‘m self taught at coding so if there is anything additional I should help with, feel free to lmk.

[–] davel@lemmy.ml 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

BTW I’ve only been admin for a few weeks now, so I’ll leave your mod request to the O.G. admins.

[–] haui_lemmy@lemmy.giftedmc.com 1 points 8 months ago

No problem. Thanks for lmk.