Looking at the front page of this forum and many others, leads me to conclude that kbin has a ridiculous spam problem.
As of this posting 23 out of 25 of the posts on /m/fediverse are spam. Reporting doesn’t seem to do any good. Oftentimes I try to report, and after trying to submit I get the red message - this has already been reported. (Unspoken subtext: “… and nothing has been done about it.”)
So, kbin: No moderation, letting spammers run free. I really love the Fediverse, but there needs to be closed signups (by human approval) on accounts, with maybe a waiting period on posting. Also, I would like a way to ignore content from accounts that have X ratio of moderation score or Y amount of deleted content.
As it stands now, kbin is not a useful source of link aggregation, with less than 10% signal to noise ratio.
One of the main problems is that Ernest is the owner and only mod on those magazines getting all the spam. I guess I missed the memo (figuratively speaking) about deletions not being federated though. That seems like a problem even if there were alternative moderators.
There’s at least one person on the mod-request queue for most of the spam-ridden magazines. That “at least one” is me, which is how I know. I’m not here all the time and wouldn’t be great at it, but at this stage even a part-time mod would be better than none at all. Hopefully, as and when Ernest comes back he can assign some roles. Twice as hopefully, someone else who would be better at it gets it instead.