I noticed that “Ask Lemmy” only has 4 moderators.
That’s a single mod per 12k~ subscribers.
Or a single mod per 250~ users daily.
@14specks hasn’t made a post and comment in 2 years.
@tmpod@lemmy.pt hasn’t in 4 months.
@Cloak in a year.
@mekhos in 3 years.
Where are the mods?
I don’t think “mods per user” is that important of a metric. “Mods per daily/weekly/monthly post/comment” is a more useful gauge of a community’s activity.
agreed on this.
Are there any numbers how many mods a community should have?
As many as necessary to keep the users in check.
Are all participants civil, you need only one. If everyone is feral and posts 10 comments/30min that are worth moderation, maybe 1 mod ler 10 users.
Some mods can take a 100 users, some only 10.
A mod is not like an API you can rate limit lol
As an instance admin, if I regularly see reports for a local community that break community rules but not instance rules that sit without action for 24 hours or more, that’s when I’ll get involved with the community to try and get more active mods.
If the reports are for posts that break instance rules, I’ll action them whether or not there are local mods active.