Since you brought it up, I'd like to bring up my gripe with the brisbanetrains head mod. Dude's been entirely inactive except for the one time they came in, removed my weeks-old post and told me it was because of some drama without explanation of what said drama was. I messaged second mod who said they couldn't get in touch with them.

Not a huge deal because the community's basically dead anyway and there's no good reason its content can't go in !brisbane@aussie.zone. If something were to be done about it though, I'd propose the current second mod being given the job instead. They were at least active on the site.

I mean, you can simply ask. 😃

In terms of responding to user reports, I take care of most of those all over aussie.zone. Even if I'm not listed as a mod in a community, I still review the reports.

As to curation of communities, I'm personally very light touch. I'll nuke spam instantly, but generally permit the community decide what to do about content beyond that. We may reach a critical mass someday where that won't be sufficient, but I don't think we're there, yet.

If someone wants to really get involved and manage a community, I'll support that, too. I'd love to see an /r/askhistorians here, for example. I don't think we're a large enough instance that I need worry about power-hungry types becoming tyrants in their communities. It's also trivial to un-mod them again, also. So