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Do we have a problem with squatters?
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this post was submitted on 27 Jun 2023
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What’s expected? Are we supposed to go out and recruit people before starting a community? I don’t see the practicality of that. A slow start is normal. Kbin is small. The sign of a deadbeat moderator is a mod that neglects to remove spam-- not a mod who does not produce content. Producing content is not the mods job AFAIK.
I created m/Brussels & happen to be an activist. Most of what I have to say (at least at the moment) is high temp activism stuff. I could easily flood the channel with this stuff but then it would be an imbalance & deter activity. Hopefully a few people join and bring some chatter on boring topics to balance it out.
Community squatting can be favorable in some cases. Consider the bias of (for example) letting a representive of PepsiCo control a mag “m/Pepsi”. That moderator would censor anything critical of Pepsi. The narrative would be one-sided & pro-Pepsi. I would rather see m/Pepsi go to some random squatter than people from an official org.
I don't wanna say this is how somebody ends up buying knock-off Pepsi from a forum, but this might be the only way that could happen 😅
Well but the reality is that /more/ people will buy knock-off Pepsi if PepsiCo allows critical posts to be seen. When they censor for brand-protection, no one knows except the person they censored. Sure the quietly censored people (who likely already boycott Pepsi) will boycott but everyone else unwittingly enjoys their Pepsi-loving forum.
Unlike #Reddit there is a mod log. That helps a little but probably not many users look at that.