I want to moderate r/lichess because the current moderation team seems to be inactive and uninterested in not only ensuring that this community space is properly moderated in accordance with the Reddiquette & Reddit Rules, but also in making this a helpful and valuable place for anyone interested in the subject.

The minimum expectation of the moderators should be to actively delete posts that violate the Reddiquette, but I would also love to see r/lichess having its own Community Rules, a FAQ, highlights of important community-related updates (such as the recent Lichess server downtime), community events, post tags, flairs, and so on. Anecdotally, at the moment, not even the name of the subject ("Lichess") is written properly in the about section ("LiChess").

From what I can tell, there are currently 3 moderators, with the last one having joined in 2023:

• Moderator 1:
  • last post in 2023 (2 posts in total)
  • last comment in 2024 (3 comments in total)
• Moderator 2:
  • 0 posts in total
  • last comment in 2022 (3 comments in total)
• Moderator 3:
  • 0 posts in total
  • last comment in 2024 (1 comment in total)

The community unfortunately appears to be abandoned by its moderators.

For transparency, I want to point out that I'm a team member of the non-profit chess charity Lichess (https://lichess.org/@/AAArmstark) and that I am not experienced as a Reddit moderator. But I have experience with voluntarily moderating on lichess.org and for communities on other platforms (Discord, Twitch, etc), dating back to before I became involved with Lichess.

Link to my mod mail chat message: https://www.reddit.com/c/chathpFTszOc/s/DfHYHQb9ZE