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What to do about ghost magazines that have no content?
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Anybody can do that. Doesn't have to be a mod.
The person contributing the content needs to have some kind of confidence that their effort is going to be worthwhile.
On an empty magazine, not only do they have to start from scratch with no help, but there's also a nontrivial risk that the owner is going to end up being a tyrannical powermod (if they've claimed lots of names), or just abandon the magazine and let trolls and spammers have free reign. Given those risks, it makes more sense for a potential contributor to just create their own magazine under an alternate (though possibly less ideal) name, or just put their effort into some other topic entirely.
I really don't. I just post what I want without thinking about anything being "worthwhile" or needing "confidence".