The recent discussion of instance admin burnout has got me thinking about how do we create a sustainable model going forward to prevent admins from being over burdened.

The biggest workload for admins is they become the defacto community moderators for every community with inactive mods, inattentive mods, etc.

I imagine this is part of the overloading stress that caused lemm.ee to throw in the towel.

Mandatory Moderation Model

1 - Every community that doesn't follow the following rules get's autolocked
2 - Every community on a instance needs a moderator
3 - Every moderator must be active
4 - The report backlog for a community must not get stale or too old (24h/48h)

Admin's would be moderator managers, and not get involved in user posts, just moderator issues

A - Moderator not following instance TOS
B - Moderator acting in bad faith
C - Unlocking communities when moderators fix the initial issue

What are your thoughts? Would this help larger instances scale better?

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[–] southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 8 points 3 days ago

Problem is that not every community is the same. Nor is every mod.

You start telling to use activity as your metric, you run into trouble because there's a ton of small communities where the mod listed is an alt account to keep moderation and personal use separate to avoid the bullshit.

Back on reddit, I learned real damn fast to not moderate active subs on my main account. Lemmy isn't much different. Mods catch hell, no matter how good they are. Using dedicated moderation accounts to avoid the bullshit, while observing the community from a main account. If the community never needs action, the mod account looks inactive.

For real people, never moderate a big community from your regular account, even on lemmy.

But other than that, it's a solid idea!