No surprise tbh.

Who would have thought eh?

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If you’re the creator of the community you should have a trash icon on Web that lets you delete the community.

I think that’s a good policy honestly. It at least shows effort that you want to keep the community to send a message saying you’d like to keep it before giving a detailed explanation. The 5 days is definitely more of a “we’ve heard nothing from this user at all.” That 5 days is still up to be workshopped a bit, we’re just trying this as an opening standard.

Realistically, I think if somebody sent a message saying “I’m still willing to be active and run the community” we’d take them at their word and consider that request to take over a community as denied if it were an outside user. Somebody can always request it again if they don’t make an effort to moderate the community after that, and we’d notice if there were a pattern of them saying they’d moderate the community and then not following through.

For top mod removals it’s a bit more complex and we’d want a more detailed answer regardless, but I think a response of “Hey I’m busy this week but I can message you Monday next week” is reasonable.

Six months is longer than even Reddit’s standard. We’re not going to do that.

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In some cases, communities are set to be moderator-only, which is to say that only moderators are allowed to post in them. As well, we want to avoid community squatting by power moderators (think 20+ communities with no interactions) who create communities so they can keep controlling them later on when people suddenly start using them. This was the bane of Reddit’s existence, and something we don’t want to have propagate over to Lemmy.ca under any circumstances.

Regardless, this is why we have the 5 day window for moderators to respond to let us know what’s going on, so we can get that context. Ultimately we don’t want to reassign a community unless it’s obvious that the user moderating it has no interest in actively moderating, or is holding onto it in bad faith.

Thanks for contributing. These are perspectives we want to keep in mind.

Autism isn’t curable because it’s not a disease. It’s a difference in brain development. You can no more cure it than you can cure ADHD or being transgender.

What you can do is provide a child support. Autism is a spectrum, and some children will need more support than others. Early-childhood behavioural and communication therapies can make a massive difference in the long-term prognosis for a child with autism. Different educational approaches can also help quite a bit. This isn’t going to solve the problem for every single child, but the outlook for people with autism is significantly better than it was in the 80s.

I sincerely hope life doesn’t force you to become the caretaker of an autistic child.

I absolutely refuse to put another human being on a dying planet, so no need to worry about that. Regardless, if I do somehow end up with a child, I’m fully on-board to support them no matter how they turn out.

It gives fecal transplants a bad name too.

They are a perfectly valid treatment for actual colon-related health issues. They are not a “cure” for autism. Autism isn’t something that needs to be cured.