Context
At Lemmygrad, we love doing purges. 
This post regarding “controlling the creation of minuscule communities and cleaning up abandoned ones” garnered a lot of agreement so it’s time we began cleaning up dead communities. The communities page should be more useful after this.
What we would like to do is clean up such communities in phases, loosening the criteria as we proceed with each phase. We will run each phase through the community to gather feedback before pulling the trigger.
In doing so, we hope to experiment and determine what a good criteria is for finding community candidates for removal. Once we have settled on a reasonable criteria, we can do this periodically. Maybe every six months. We can thus allow community creation freely when clean up at intervals to control the mess.
This is the first phase of this process.
Phase 1
For this, we want to catch the communities that have been dead since arrival. The exact criteria is:
- Communities that are at least one month old
- Communities that have not seen any post or comment for their entire existence
This criteria is pretty strict in the sense that it will only catch communities that we won’t mind being gone (I think).
There are 36 communities that match this criteria. They are listed in tabular format at the end of the post hidden under the spoiler tag. The removal process is going to proceed as follows:
- Communities created in 2023 and earlier will be removed after two days at 2024-05-26 06:30:00 UTC.
- Communities created in 2024 will be removed after a week at 2024-05-31 06:30:00 UTC.
- If you would like any of the listed communities to not be deleted for some reason, you can comment here or message the admins. Maybe you want to adopt the community or whatever.
Communities Selected for Removal
Table
| Name | Title | Created on | Moderators |
|---|---|---|---|
| adelaide | Adelaide | 2022-03-26 00:58:41 UTC | @Nique@lemmygrad.ml |
| agitprop | Agitative Propaganda | 2020-08-01 16:01:05 UTC | @Shaggy0291@lemmygrad.ml |
| antiimperialism | Anti-Imperialist Action | 2024-03-27 18:31:30 UTC | @Nestori@lemmygrad.ml |
| ask_socialists | Ask Socialists | 2023-06-16 19:05:51 UTC | @ilir@lemmygrad.ml |
| australiansocialism | Australian Socialism | 2022-03-25 23:47:20 UTC | @Nique@lemmygrad.ml |
| badempanada | BadEmpanada | 2023-06-01 19:18:02 UTC | @GenZhukov@lemmygrad.ml |
| blackwolffeed | Backup for /r/BlackWolfFeed | 2020-07-11 22:44:59 UTC | @Mary_Malloc@lemmygrad.ml |
| brisbane | Brisbane | 2022-03-26 00:44:56 UTC | @Nique@lemmygrad.ml |
| cpa | Communist Party of Australia | 2022-03-26 01:48:09 UTC | @CPbAsed@lemmygrad.ml |
| darwin | Darwin | 2022-03-26 01:12:42 UTC | @Nique@lemmygrad.ml |
| fanfiction | Fanfiction | 2023-06-13 19:49:55 UTC | @100beep@lemmygrad.ml |
| firepro | The community of the Fire Pro Wrestling series of games | 2020-07-21 15:11:25 UTC | @Josh_Drake@lemmygrad.ml |
| genzedongea | r/GenZedong Educational Archive | 2022-04-04 20:31:28 UTC | @kretenkobr2@lemmygrad.ml |
| greenandextreme | GreenandExtreme | 2022-04-04 18:22:30 UTC | @B0rodin@lemmygrad.ml |
| hassanabi | Hassan Piker | 2023-07-03 23:20:14 UTC | @scunner@lemmygrad.ml |
| hobart | Hobart | 2022-03-26 01:13:36 UTC | @Nique@lemmygrad.ml |
| italiarossa | Comunità italiana marxista- Italian marxist community | 2022-03-24 13:39:21 UTC | @anticringe@lemmygrad.ml |
| jucheprimalism | ooga booga | 2021-11-25 04:08:40 UTC | @Hixen69@lemmygrad.ml |
| langex | Language exchange | 2022-01-16 07:14:01 UTC | @felipeforte@lemmygrad.ml |
| leftwithoutedge | leftwithoutedge | 2020-07-11 08:25:34 UTC | @Pheadrus@lemmygrad.ml |
| marxistculture | MarxistCulture | 2023-12-27 14:28:33 UTC | @EdMarCarSe@lemmygrad.ml |
| panches | CA “Panches” | 2021-05-22 23:06:38 UTC | @panches@lemmygrad.ml |
| perth | Perth | 2022-03-26 00:45:10 UTC | @Nique@lemmygrad.ml |
| plants | Plants, flowers and nature | 2024-04-16 17:26:31 UTC | @Markka@lemmygrad.ml |
| puroresu | Here is a space to discuss Puroresu from a leftist perspective. | 2020-07-19 21:43:58 UTC | @Josh_Drake@lemmygrad.ml |
| raddemsoc | Radical DemSocs | 2021-01-29 17:33:51 UTC | @a_very_rad_demsoc@lemmygrad.ml |
| revolt | Revolt Chat | 2023-07-03 05:58:22 UTC | @SageSaul@lemmygrad.ml |
| southeastasia | Southeast Asia | 2023-03-27 09:12:18 UTC | @Neptium@lemmygrad.ml |
| space_news | Space News | 2023-08-20 19:26:53 UTC | @Shinhoshi@lemmygrad.ml |
| sydney | Sydney | 2022-03-25 23:48:25 UTC | @Nique@lemmygrad.ml |
| theleftcoalition | The Left Coalition | 2022-06-17 04:42:09 UTC | @itselectricboi@lemmygrad.ml |
| thirst_posting | Thirst Posting | 2021-01-05 03:25:55 UTC | @vera@lemmygrad.ml |
| tip | Türkiye İşçi Partisi - Workers’ Party of Turkey | 2023-06-02 03:34:43 UTC | @ottomanbeethoven@lemmygrad.ml |
| wargamereddragon | Wargame: Red Dragon | 2023-01-08 20:38:46 UTC | @Shaggy0291@lemmygrad.ml |
Tagging moderators of the selected communities. Please read the post. Thank you.
moderators of the selected communities
Excellent post! I noticed a community I created didn’t have any posts, so I’m purging it
Ditto. /c/hail_corporate is deleted now. I squatted /c/socialistra during the reddit migration wave – the original subreddit was never officially a project of the Socialist Rifle Association and had been the source of some grief for the org (and I didn’t want to see the same thing happen on Lemmy) – but I’ll leave it to admins to decide its fate.
I don’t see me…
sadge
I have some inactive communities as well. I am going to shut some of them down.