Nope, you are free to make your own. Let us know if you have trouble with that :)

This request system is for communities that were created by someone else, where you need an admin to transfer it over to you

The community does not exist, i thought you had to ask permission to create one!

Hi :)

Do you have a link to the community? I don't see one after a quick search, but I might have missed it. If you are looking to make a new community, you can create one here: https://lemmy.ca/create_post

No problem :)

Thank you for all the useful links and info. I will look at those. Appreciate the warm welcome :)

Yes we can do that :) You are now the mod on !canadadeals@lemmy.ca

I also see that you are new here, and you have made a few communities already. You are totally free to do that, but from expereince it can be hard to get multiple new communities off the ground your own. While some of your communities are distinct niches that don't exist yet (ex. the Gander community), others do have active counterparts. It would be easier to participate in those, or to moderate those by asking the existing mods if they need help. You'll have an easier time growing a community that already has 1000 users, rather than starting for zero.

I recommend these specific pages from our guides to understand how the platform works, and tricks to find the communities:

• https://fedecan.ca/en/guide/get-started
• https://fedecan.ca/en/guide/threadiverse/detailed-overview
• https://fedecan.ca/en/guide/lemmy/for-users/how-to-find-communities

For the communities that you are moderating, you can find some similar existing communities listed on these pages. If you click the home icon and set lemmy.ca as your home, then any links you click on will open back on here:

• https://lemmyverse.net/communities?query=analog
• https://lemmyverse.net/communities?query=runescape
• !bapcsalescanada@lemmy.ca (a more specific subset of the tech deals)
• https://lemmyverse.net/communities?query=typewriter
• https://lemmyverse.net/communities?query=fountain
• https://lemmyverse.net/communities?query=penpal (this one doesn't actually have an established community yet, the community you made could win out)

For any community that you want to try and grow, I recommend posting about them on !newcommunities@lemmy.world and !communitypromo@lemmy.ca to let people know about them.

For sure, thank you for working on those!

Reports are sent to both the mods and the admins on Lemmy, and so we do see them, but it's easier on us when communities have their own mods to deal with things.

Thanks guys!! Thats what I was hoping for, dont wanna take anyones spot just wanna make sure someone actually is reading the queue

Sounds great, done!

I removed the existing mods, added you as the first mod, and then added the others back. That way if the other mods return, you have support, but you can still deal with it if one of those accounts causes issues in the future.

Cheers, and let us know if you need help with anything :)

Thanks Otter!

Appreciate you so much my dude thank you!!

You should have mod access now too!

To clarify what happened with your earlier request, the default Lemmy UI is a bit weird when it comes to appointing someone as a mod. The UI for it only appears when clicking on a post or comment by the user in the community.

Meanwhile, some alternative UIs like Photon let you add new mods directly. That's the method I prefer to use, since there is less back and forth. That is how I was able to add you both just now, without needing any more comments/posts.

You should also be able to use Photon's mod tools now, and you can find those settings at https://photon.lemmy.ca/c/onguardforthee/settings

( tagging @1egg4u@lemmy.world as well)

I have added both of your accounts as moderators to the community, and you should have access to the community settings now. :) Please feel free to reach out if you have any issues!

Also tagging @Rat_in_a_hat@lemmy.ca

I'll see about getting in contact with the subreddit mods sometime soon.

On an unrelated point, I love the usernames 😄

Im just not sure how it works now, am I supposed to get a message? Have you gotten one?

Sounds good!

They just got back to me and theyll give it to both of us!! And I am totally fine if you take point as Im inexperienced (but willing to learn)

I would actually love that and I do believe @Rat_in_a_hat@lemmy.ca is still interested and I would be more than happy to have them do it as well as they may have more experience

Thank you!! So what do we do next?

Hiya! No, I'm not moderating there. I think my request is orphaned at the moment because of the miscommunication.

Go ahead and request to mod, not much to it really.

Just FYI, once you're given the mod role, you have a finite amount of time (not sure how much) to post and claim the mod role. That wasn't explained very clearly

Sure we can add you on there. I see there's another post with a pending request, did you want to work together on the community @Rat_in_a_hat@lemmy.ca ?

You can totally have the community and build it up, but for some context on why it isn't active currently:

From memory, the r/onguardforthee mods set up the community here during the API migration, but did not have the capacity to keep it going alongside the subreddit. Since !canada@lemmy.ca covers much of the same content, and we don't have the history that r/canada and r/onguardforthee went through, there hasn't been that much demand for that community. We also have some existing communities that fulfill the sub-niches, such as !ehbuddyhoser@sh.itjust.works for memes or communities like !ndp@lemmy.ca for political party specific content. You can see the sidebar in !canada@lemmy.ca for a list of those.

You're welcome to take over the community and build it in a way that makes sense to you. If you wanted a connection to the subreddit (ex. sister communities), we might be able to put you in contact with the subreddit mods

I believe Kokomheart returned recently, and might appreciate the help.

@Kokomheart@lemmy.ca what do you think?

Sorry bud ill delete this

Hey bud are you moderating over there? I was honestly gonna pop a request but Ive also never modded and am too baby I just really like lemmy and miss the onguard vibe

Let me know when/if you do! I have a bunch of cursed pics from Enchanted Forest i wanna post somewhere

So sorry, I think we're on different schedules today. Busy Sunday! I've turned on notifications to catch the next one.

btw could you create a new post on the On Guard For Thee (your requested) community?

I checked a couple hours after my previous comment but still did not see your post; as such I was unable to make you a mod.