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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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[–] Kill_joy@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

            
              Try reaching out to the owner to see if they are active and what their intentions are. So many people came during the black outs and so many posts were floating around saying "I claimed X magazine to protect the name, if you're interested, I'll pass ownership". Do definitely worth reaching out.
Try posting content yourself and generating discussion. If it's empty but there are subscribers you can try and brute force engagement.
Make your own magazine/community and get it started. Spread awareness in all the find a new community magazines.