Is Lemmy.World going to do anything about community squatting?

https://lemmy.world/post/1639494

Is Lemmy.World going to do anything about community squatting? - Lemmy.world

A good example is https://lemmy.world/c/documentaries [https://lemmy.world/c/documentaries] One of their mods, https://lemmy.world/u/sabbah [https://lemmy.world/u/sabbah], currently mods 54 communites despite only being on Lemmy for about a month and has never posted on c/documentaries (except for his post asking for people to join his mod team). [https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/9c0be4b4-87b6-457d-8159-96d0ac519d87.png] The other mod, https://lemmy.world/u/AradFort [https://lemmy.world/u/AradFort], has one post to c/documentaries and moderates 18 communities. [https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/2ae5cf3f-a6d9-4fb5-aa81-7c0a25fcf1d4.png] Does Lemmy.World have a plan to remove this kind of cancer before we start getting reddit supermods here too?

Get with the community admin and discuss if you are interested in it.
In most cases they are not going to respond either because they are inactive or they are intentionally squatting the names for whatever reason. They can’t respond or they don’t want to.
In this specific case the call for mod is public, open and with 0 comments of anyone asking to help: lemmy.world/post/1036821
Join Our Moderator Team at c/documentaries - Lemmy.world

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The call to join ‘their’ team. Also, why did they create a community they had no interest in modding / participating in to begin with?

Well, at this very moment, it’s their team. They put an icon, a sidebar, a few users are posting.

I don’t see what’s your issue here. Why not join them if you want to mod that community? I’m sure they would be happy to have you onboard

I feel like you, and several others, are entirely missing the point.

Its not that I want the community so much as I am concerned about the squatting aspect at large.

Well, if they are squatting and not doing their jobs as mods, then people will ask the LW admins to remove them, and that’s it.
The issue was explained in the first post, what do you not understand?