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	@[email protected]
agitprop	Agitative Propaganda	2020-08-01 16:01:05 UTC	@[email protected]
antiimperialism	Anti-Imperialist Action	2024-03-27 18:31:30 UTC	@[email protected]
ask_socialists	Ask Socialists	2023-06-16 19:05:51 UTC	@[email protected]
australiansocialism	Australian Socialism	2022-03-25 23:47:20 UTC	@[email protected]
badempanada	BadEmpanada	2023-06-01 19:18:02 UTC	@[email protected]
blackwolffeed	Backup for /r/BlackWolfFeed	2020-07-11 22:44:59 UTC	@[email protected]
brisbane	Brisbane	2022-03-26 00:44:56 UTC	@[email protected]
cpa	Communist Party of Australia	2022-03-26 01:48:09 UTC	@[email protected]
darwin	Darwin	2022-03-26 01:12:42 UTC	@[email protected]
fanfiction	Fanfiction	2023-06-13 19:49:55 UTC	@[email protected]
firepro	The community of the Fire Pro Wrestling series of games	2020-07-21 15:11:25 UTC	@[email protected]
genzedongea	r/GenZedong Educational Archive	2022-04-04 20:31:28 UTC	@[email protected]
greenandextreme	GreenandExtreme	2022-04-04 18:22:30 UTC	@[email protected]
hassanabi	Hassan Piker	2023-07-03 23:20:14 UTC	@[email protected]
hobart	Hobart	2022-03-26 01:13:36 UTC	@[email protected]
italiarossa	Comunità italiana marxista- Italian marxist community	2022-03-24 13:39:21 UTC	@[email protected]
jucheprimalism	ooga booga	2021-11-25 04:08:40 UTC	@[email protected]
langex	Language exchange	2022-01-16 07:14:01 UTC	@[email protected]
leftwithoutedge	leftwithoutedge	2020-07-11 08:25:34 UTC	@[email protected]
marxistculture	MarxistCulture	2023-12-27 14:28:33 UTC	@[email protected]
panches	CA “Panches”	2021-05-22 23:06:38 UTC	@[email protected]
perth	Perth	2022-03-26 00:45:10 UTC	@[email protected]
plants	Plants, flowers and nature	2024-04-16 17:26:31 UTC	@[email protected]
puroresu	Here is a space to discuss Puroresu from a leftist perspective.	2020-07-19 21:43:58 UTC	@[email protected]
raddemsoc	Radical DemSocs	2021-01-29 17:33:51 UTC	@[email protected]
revolt	Revolt Chat	2023-07-03 05:58:22 UTC	@[email protected]
southeastasia	Southeast Asia	2023-03-27 09:12:18 UTC	@[email protected]
space_news	Space News	2023-08-20 19:26:53 UTC	@[email protected]
sydney	Sydney	2022-03-25 23:48:25 UTC	@[email protected]
theleftcoalition	The Left Coalition	2022-06-17 04:42:09 UTC	@[email protected]
thirst_posting	Thirst Posting	2021-01-05 03:25:55 UTC	@[email protected]
tip	Türkiye İşçi Partisi - Workers’ Party of Turkey	2023-06-02 03:34:43 UTC	@[email protected]
wargamereddragon	Wargame: Red Dragon	2023-01-08 20:38:46 UTC	@[email protected]