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What to do about ghost magazines that have no content? (kbin.social)
submitted 1 year ago by DarkGamer@kbin.social to c/kbinMeta@kbin.social
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It seems like when the big reddit migration happened, a lot of new users claimed magazine names on kbin instances that were popular on reddit in order to have ownership of them, but they seemingly have no interest in posting content to them. This has unfortunately caused lot of otherwise useful magazines to remain dormant, vacant, and unused.

Would it make sense to have these ghost magazines expire or have a system for changing ownership of them if no one uses them? It's a shame if the good names are taken and immediately abandoned, and it's not a great user experience to look for communities only to find so many empty and abandoned magazines.

I'm curious what opinions are regarding this matter. Thanks.

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[-] RheingoldRiver@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah if you look at my profile I'm modding 7 magazines:

  • Two I'm posting frequently to, and no one else posts there
  • One, I was the owner of on reddit in the first place
  • One I was a heavy contributor to on reddit, and I left an open offer to mods to take over
  • One I was a heavy contributor to on reddit, but the mods on reddit were inactive so I didn't leave that notice
  • The other two I had nothing to do with, but I was in a discord convo where someone was bemoaning their lack so I said "ok I'll create them, then you can post" and I'm pretty sure I left a note that subreddit mods are free to take them from me, but yeah if anyone wrote me and said "why are you sitting on TalesFromTechSupport" my first response would be, "do you want it?"
[-] livus@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I don't think you and @Bufo are the kind of people we are talking about though.

My problem has been with one where I was posting a lot to help make it active.

I reached out to the owner, like @Kill_joy suggests, once a week, asking about community rules and moderation, never got a reply then one day they turned up, created one rule and left again and don't post or comment on kbin.

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