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submitted 1 year ago by GreatAlbatross to c/feddituk

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I thought this might be worth a little bit of discussion at the moment.

We've had a few communities started by existing subs on the other site, some making it clear that it's staking a claim to the same name on here in case they ever decide to move, but that they have no plans to at the moment, and will not be doing any moderating.

I have to be honest, this kinda rubs me the wrong way. It feels like hedging your bets, running one community, not running the other one, but still intending to be in charge if it takes off despite that.

If you'd like to start a community here in the same style as an existing one, that's great, go for it!
Moderate, post great content, grow!

But if you're aiming to put your name on undeveloped land, in the hope that when you come back someone will have built a farm, I'm not sure it's very helpful.

Discussion encouraged!

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[–] nonexcludable 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (7 children)

Hi all, I am guilty of this, and I think this post is about me mostly!

I do understand the points you've raised. The subreddit that I (along with a few IRL friends I met through r/London) started back in 2010 was focussed on meet-ups in London. It's called LondonSocialClub.

It has a specific ideology - radically inclusive for anyone over 18. There's a mod team that has developed trust and a community of people who know each other - (now scattered across Whatsapp groups that sprung from events posted on the subreddit.)

We're not a normal mod team dealing with usual Reddit stuff. For example, we've had small groups deciding to ban people from events who have been accused of sexual harassment. And other IRL stuff needed our involvement.

The community isn't big enough to split, I think it would break up if it tried.

I'm not a super active mod anymore, but I would be gutted if Reddit went to shit and someone else started a community using the name and brand, but running it counter to my values and what I think are the values of others in the community.

I'd be totally pro someone starting a separate London meetup community on here, just don't want the name poached.

[–] jakwithoutac 4 points 1 year ago

Your argument boils down to 'my towel is on the deck chair so tough'. The opinion of other people in this thread is largely that it would be really nice to live in a world where we don't have to have pool attendants that go around taking towels off deck chairs when they've been left unattended for 30 minutes.

To be fair to you - you did get there first and claim the name and so have a lot of the say on the community's future. What I'd say in response is that if you really want to keep the community here on this instance you'd be best off making it active and healthy as opposed to dormant. Either the community will be removed so someone else can claim the name, or someone that really wants a community with the same name will just create one on a different instance and then you're back to square one with the name poach fears anyway.

TL;DR: Shit or get off the pot, bro :)

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