It seems like when the big reddit migration happened, a lot of new users claimed magazine names on kbin instances that were popular on reddit in order to have ownership of them, but they seemingly have no interest in posting content to them. This has unfortunately caused lot of otherwise useful magazines to remain dormant, vacant, and unused.
Would it make sense to have these ghost magazines expire or have a system for changing ownership of them if no one uses them? It’s a shame if the good names are taken and immediately abandoned, and it’s not a great user experience to look for communities only to find so many empty and abandoned magazines.
I’m curious what opinions are regarding this matter. Thanks.
Personally, I’m not a fan of shouting into the void. When I post something I do so with the expectation of getting some sort of engagement on it, and when it gets none, it’s demotivating.
Now, understandably, if everyone was just like me the internet would be a barren wasteland with no content. So this isn’t exactly a good thing. But that’s my personal reason for not just spamming half-interesting content into an empty community. I like to have some sort of community already in place to engage with.
Though that also has to do with the fact that I’m overwhelmingly more of a commenter than a poster. But that comes with its own share of problems.
Every magazine has a first post. You don’t know what engagement you have until you being engaging. If it you get engagement from the community, good! If you don’t get engagement, at least you tried. It’s not screaming into the void until you have a wall of your own content staring back at you from the magazine.