I’m basically alone on 3d printing. It might be a good idea to recruit some help at some point, but I’m in a conundrum about what to do. I didn’t create the community, and I’m the 4th mod down. The other 3 are not active. I don’t want to discourage them, but I don’t want the community to get discouraged by inactive mods either. I try to check posts at least a few times a day, and I have no intention of leaving. I kinda bounce around in interests and am neck deep in AI stuff at the moment. It would be nice to know I have some good help and am not alone here. Do I just keep kicking the can and hope the other mods come back?

      • Blaze
        2·
        1 year ago

        Don’t worry about that, you are the only active moderator, kick the inactive ones out and post a message about looking for new people to support you.

        I know that as a member I find it weird when a community is unmoderated, so you want to avoid that

        • j4k3@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
          11·
          1 year ago

          Only admins can kick people above a mod. I sit in fourth with 3 dead accounts on top of me. It is no big deal, but like, if I’m going to message a mod about something, I would probably just send the message to the top mod. In this case, that would be a dead end.

          • Blaze
            1·
            1 year ago

            ~~Shouldn’t you have “remove as mod” when you click on the 3 buttons icon on one of the inactive mods?

            I used it in the past between my alts, it works without need of an admin.

            I am not sure what you mean with mods being on top of you. AFAIK, mods on Lemmy are equal, there is no such hierarchy.~~

            Edit: see below tesr