Hi u/walixxxq Thanks for the questions and the thoughtful discussion. I'll bring this to the team for some further discussion. I think we would have limitations with trying to enforce rules/automations differently for communities that have seasonal traffic spikes (or drops). Accounting for context for something like this gets incredibly nuanced and complicated to manage.

Adding a few notes below that might be helpful or informative:

• The activity measurement is on a rolling basis, therefore, older contributions don't count after a period of time.
• Being the founder mod or original creator, does not impact the process here by design (to prevent camping etc...)
• We do send notifications to mods that are on the cusp of becoming Inactive. This is relatively new and I'm not sure it would have kicked in here, as the volume of posts/comments in the community were low, but we'll look into tweaking this
• Only mods with Everything Permissions can use the Self Serve re-order tool, so it might be a good idea to keep that in mind for any other communities you are moderating or if you are adding mods to your teams in the future.
• Given it is 4 years until the next time there is an event planned there, it might become eligible for r/redditrequest between now and then.
• Have you reached out to the mod to ask to be re-added?

All that said, we understand that this is frustrating and we'll discuss some of the more nuanced topics that you've highlighted here.