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What to do about ghost magazines that have no content? (kbin.social)

submitted 1 year ago by DarkGamer@kbin.social to c/kbinMeta@kbin.social

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It seems like when the big reddit migration happened, a lot of new users claimed magazine names on kbin instances that were popular on reddit in order to have ownership of them, but they seemingly have no interest in posting content to them. This has unfortunately caused lot of otherwise useful magazines to remain dormant, vacant, and unused.

Would it make sense to have these ghost magazines expire or have a system for changing ownership of them if no one uses them? It's a shame if the good names are taken and immediately abandoned, and it's not a great user experience to look for communities only to find so many empty and abandoned magazines.

I'm curious what opinions are regarding this matter. Thanks.

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[–] cacheson@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago

In fact, if you look at many of the descriptions they say things like "reddit mods contact me if you want to take this over."

That's a decent indicator that the person didn't intend to be a powermod at least, but the other concerns I raised still apply. Regardless of what the original intent was, people are going to be hesitant to make significant contributions to ghost magazines.

So yes, post to them.

No. If I come across an empty magazine on a topic that I'm interested in, whose owner hasn't had activity in over a month, I may subscribe to it and see if any activity happens. However, I will not contribute to it, for the reasons I've outlined. I do want to contribute to kbin and the threadiverse in general, but I'll do so in other ways.