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How to take over a deleted community?
The community "windowsxp" has been deleted by the original owner:
https://lemmy.ml/c/windowsxp
How do I take over ownership?
Looks like even admins cant restore it in that case. You can create it under a different name, or use the same name on a different instance.
@Nutomic So what happens if a very large community gets deleted by it's ownes? For example https://lemmy.ml/c/technology. Are you saying there is no way to restore it, or let other take control?
@Nutomic So what happens if a very large community gets deleted by it's ownes? For example https://lemmy.ml/c/technology. Are you saying there is no way to restore it, or let other take control?
sounds like a big issue
It is possible to restore communities directly in the database.
There should be a more user intuitive way for admins to go about recovering this. On reddit, it's very common for subreddits to be abandoned or deleted and they have a recovery process
We could allow admins to restore communities on the back and front ends. It'd be a special case, because usually "deletes" are reserved for things you do to your own content, while "remove" is used for what mods / admins do to other peoples items.
Shouldn't this be retagged as an enhancement now? Since it's clear that it would be useful to have a feature to restore deleted communities.
what about a user deleting their community (maybe equivalent to like a users test community) where they don't want the content to be visible anymore. Shouldn't we just allow reuse of the name, rather than a restore of the content? or maybe there's two use cases here.
- A rogue mod deletes a whole community, and admins want to restore it.
- A mod who created the community just for themselves deletes it and doesn't want the content shown anymore. A different user wants to reuse that community name.
- A rogue mod deletes a whole community, and admins want to restore it.
maybe the underlying issue here is who should have the right to delete a community, perhaps it should be by vote of % of the mods? that way test communities only have 1 mod so they can delete the sub, and the normal communities that have rogue mods would still need majority vote to delete
As things stand, if a user deletes their account (to my knowledge) the community goes with it. If a community had 1 mod (say it was user created) and hundreds of posts by various people, it seems unfair to delete all those users' posts just because 1 person got sick of their account. It should delete that user and all their posts, but the community should be able to be revived with everyone else's posts intact.
