Can I create a magazine, then step down from a moderator position?
I do not have the time, patience, or thick skin needed to be a moderator. I do have a community or two I’d like to create on Kbin and post to, though. Is it currently possible for this set of steps to happen?
Create a magazine, which automatically makes you its moderator.
Appoint another moderator.
Either remove yourself as moderator, or have the other moderator successfully remove you.
Kbin doesn't yet have the ability to transfer ownership of a magazine, so you would need to find a person to be the owner first, and have them create it.
Out of curiosity, what magazines are you looking to make?
m/savedyouaclick. It does exist at @savedyouaclick, but that won’t federate over to kbin for me. I tried multiple times to get the magazine over here, multiple times entering @[email protected] in the search bar and it’s still not here so might as well remake it. I’m guessing the reason for this is the same reason behind this issue about a magazine from a specific instance not federating over on kbin’s codeberg: something that is fixed in later versions of lemmy. Not sure if lemmy.nrd.li is running a version late enough that it fixes this issue or not.
I also intended to make a couple other magazines that did not have any equivalent I could find on the lemmy.world community search (since it’s one of the biggest instances I figure it’ll show me the most communities, including communities that are not on lemmy.world), but they now have an equivalent!
I’m fine with being active in the place, doing lots of advertising, doing my best to get the place off the ground, writing up rules, etc.
I’m not fine with being the first line of defense against some troll posting gore. I also know that I tend to be pretty oversensitive and might use moderator powers to remove replies that really should have stayed up. Hence “I do not have the… thick skin needed to be a moderator”.
So yeah, this is totally self-serving. Don’t feel like putting myself through the gore, putting others through unfair reply removals, or of putting myself through “oh my god fucking powertripping mod” criticism (whether warranted or unwarranted), better stay out of that position of power in the first place.
Are you saying that you think I have zero chance of getting a magazine off the ground so I have more posters than just myself, or zero chance of finding someone else who is willing to moderate? I’m not entirely sure I understand your reply.
zero chance of finding someone else who is willing to moderate
This one. Not zero though but close to zero. Usually a mag is created by someone who is passionate about the topic (which you are) and wants to moderate it (which you are not).
There are hundreds of empty Mags that have been created and abandoned. (most of which are just clones of reddit subs) I have seen many threads of mods wanted for this mag I created but no longer want to mod but I have yet to see anyone take one over.
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