This is in response to activity by Beep@lemmus.org, who’s actively, knowingly breaking the rules of the community (there’s a limit of two posts per day, yet I count ten from them in the last 24 hours; this is a pattern) and on top of that being a nuisance – intentionally erasing the credit from comic artists’ works before posting them to the disdain of the community’s readers. The latter isn’t against the rules, but there’s an obvious consensus from the community that it should be (I would poll them, but they already polled themselves to overwhelming support), and Beep taunts them and continues to flood the community in the absence of moderation.

The current sole moderator, lawrence@lemmy.world, last commented a month and a half ago, and they don’t seem to be actively moderating or responding to user reports. I’d try reaching out to them, but Beep has been doing this for a while now, and it doesn’t seem like “wait and see” is going to fix anything. If I’m made a moderator and lawrence objects with plans to actively moderate, I’ll unquestioningly demoderate myself. Moreover, I won’t delete posts created before I was moderating which break the rules against post limits so I don’t nuke dozens of posts where people have already had discussions.

I already moderate two active communities, and I recognize this is a pretty strong measure, so I debated for a while before asking.

Thanks.