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?

  • @Bassman1805@lemmy.world
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    4623 hours ago

    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.

      • @Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        614 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
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        1422 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.

  • @PunkRockSportsFan
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    1923 hours ago

    The sands of time have claimed them.

    Or they’re already in El Salvador.

  • AnyOldName3
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    1222 hours ago

    Something else worth noting is that instance admins do a lot more moderation than Reddit admins did, so the burden on the moderators for individual communities can be smaller. lemmy.ml in particular has a reputation for having admins who actively intervene a lot.

  • southsamurai
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    620 hours ago

    The mods do their job. I don’t know for sure which ones are and are not active, but reports get handled same day in every case where I’ve reported, or been reported. I’d have to check the mod log to see if there’s been recent activity in that regard, but don’t have interest in doing so when anyone can.

    On my pen name account, I moderate two communities, and it would sometimes be months before I’d do anything on the account that would show up because those communities were very slow, and I’m subscribed to them on this account. No need to switch to that account when there’s no mod action needed, unless I want to post/comment on it, which is fairly infrequent.

    Lemmy is way more forgiving of relaxed moderation.

  • OrangeSliceM
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    821 hours ago

    Hey, haven’t used this account in a while, figured I got demodded, but if there’s a need I can fire it back up. I think the instance admins have things under control in general.