Andrew Ducker wrote:
> To be honest, I don't think it's that necessary to "sort" this.  If a 
> community is dying then the more proactive members will set up a new one 
> and people will follow them across.  Sure, it might be handy to be able 
> to take over and "rescue" a community, but it's not the end of the world 
> if it doesn't work out that way.

That depends on whether you look at a community as a place where people 
are talking now, or as a repository of knowledge over time.

F'rex, I'm a member of a story announcement comm on LJ.  It has six 
years of posts.  We wanted to be able to tag all the old posts so that 
new people could find stories they wanted to read, but the maintainer 
had vanished completely.  In that case, moving to new comm wouldn't have 
addressed the problem at all -- we needed a new maintainer.

> Andy

love
Anna
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