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How do I modify a community created by another user? (lemmy.globe.pub)

submitted 1 year ago by mplewis@lemmy.globe.pub to c/lemmy_support@lemmy.ml

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I am signed in as an admin user of my instance. A different, non-admin user has created a community on my instance. I can't edit this community's details. If I create a post in this community, I can't use the ... menu to assign myself moderator of this community.

What do I need to do to give myself access to edit this community?

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[–] willya@lemmyf.uk 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Why would you even want to be doing this?

[–] mplewis@lemmy.globe.pub 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I’m the owner and admin of the instance, and sometimes there are tidying/housekeeping tasks I need to do with user-created communities.

[–] willya@lemmyf.uk 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I know, but I’m just trying to understand why you wouldn’t allow people on your instance to handle their own shit. What is the tidying/house keeping of someone else’s community? As an admin you can already delete/purge every post everywhere. I could remove/purge this post right now.

[–] mplewis@lemmy.globe.pub 3 points 1 year ago

I think you’re assuming a lot about what I’m doing here. In this case, I wanted to rename the community to move an emoji and make it more consistent with the other similar communities on our server.

[–] mplewis@lemmy.globe.pub 4 points 1 year ago

As a workaround, I was able to sign in as a second admin user, go to a post/comment I made in the community, and assign myself moderator through the ... menu.

[+] VikingHippie@lemmy.wtf 0 points 1 year ago (3 children)

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[–] u202307011927@feddit.de 3 points 1 year ago

Depends on the cultural rules tho. You can't just create any community on someone else's server and feel entitled to not have to follow their rules. There's a reason why there's a hirarchy, and the mod not being the admin. The mod can run their own server if they want and/or need to.

[–] squaresinger@feddit.de 3 points 1 year ago

What do you do if someone creates and abandones an important community on your instance? Leave it unmoderated?

Remember: Each instance is it's admin's private property. Everyone on there (including moderators) are guests. An admin is totally in their right to remove troublesome moderators and these moderators are totally in their right to create their own instances.

Think of instances like connected online forums. Whoever owns the forum has the right to do whatever they like, including removing mods or even shutting down the instance if they please.

Of course, just removing mods isn't nice, and the mods are totally in their right to protest, stop doing their work or even leave.

[–] starlinguk@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

The point of being an admin is that you can edit and change everything that is posted. If someone does something illegal on your instance, or they're posting stuff you don't like (racism, homophobia, etc) you need to be able to fix it.

Admins have always been able to modify posts. See Reddit, forums, etc.