Is that right? According to my sidebar we don't and I think we need to fix that if we want to make this community grow. We might be able to contact the instance admin and have some people installed, but how do we do this fairly? Election via upvote, and we send the URL to the admins with the request maybe? Lets talk about this since this is our community after all.
Technically it isn't mod-less, but I don't think either of them have been here for weeks.
I'd prefer it if those two returned and helped us build this place up. But if they're too tied up on Reddit, then yeah, we might have to think about other options.
I don't know how often they come over but they were active during the brief vacation from reddit to Lemmy; there's a couple of sticky posts from them (though Lemmy doesn't stick posts from kbin so I'm not sure if they're still there).
If anyone is on the discord for /r/sq, I've seen AKittyCat pretty active there at least during the early week-or-two of the Reddit protests, perhaps a "Hey wanna come pay attention or give someone else mod privileges" message is in order.
At least it's a pretty small community capable of self governing (so far; since the Fediverse is pretty friendly compared to Reddit) but it's nice to know that a member of the mod team is close by in case anything comes up that necessitates modding. :)
Yes we've been very lucky that no one has tried to disrupt the space here.
That being said let's look at a time line
6 days ago
I ask if there are any mods on here because they didn't show up on the sidebar and I was told we have 2 and they are around.
5 days ago
Still no mod response
I reached out to AKittyCat via discord and was in short informed to reach out to the admins which I did, updated everyone and awaited a response.
4 days ago
No mod response
Still awaiting admin contact
3 days ago
Same
2 days ago
Same
Last night
I reached out to AKittyCat again asking for the contact info of Gloom so we can maybe have some traction here.
2 hours later Gloom responds here basically saying that they are technically here and have had an unattended tab open, Kbin mod tools suck and ...that's kinda that?
I know this isn't super pressing right now, but if someone wanted to try and turn this into WrestleWithThePlot, post anything inflammatory or just pure spam we are helpless to do anything. It tooks 5-6 days while reaching out on ANOTHER platform to get a single response on here, and both mods have basically admitted they don't check the sub.
I opened up a line of communication, I get where you're coming from, but managing a community is a lot of work and I can easily see things falling to the wayside compared to R/SQ. We just need to see how and where we go from here.
AKittyCat responded, and it appears we do not have active moderators at this time. I've reached out to Kbin admin about this and hope to have a response soon.
That being said I don't know what will happen here, and we may have to start the discussion to move from here to a new community if we can't get some people in charge.
I agree with you on pretty much everything, but I think creating a new magazine/sub/whatever should be at the bottom of our list of options.
In my opinion, the best thing to do is get the mods back or find new ones and then do an m/SC grand re-opening of sorts. Then, we all boost a new welcome message so the nearly 800 users subbed here see it in their timeline and hopefully make their way over here.
Also, shout out to you for getting in touch with the mods. Love the initiative lol.
That's correct, but I've also spoken to one of the mods I'm not going to post a conversation without someone's consent but I wouldn't reach out to the admins about this if there was any chance that we have a real mod presence. Also it's almost been a day and not a single mod response on here. If someone comes in and starts posting whatever they want we are helpless right now.