Imagine the following situation: some lost lemming posts a random beans fact in a comm that you moderate. It sparks a cool discussion, but it's completely off-topic. In this situation, what do you do?
If you remove the post, you're being that annoying mod telling users to stop having fun. But if you keep the post there, you're encouraging people to post even more off-topic in the comm. Damned if you do, damned if you don't.
Because of that, I think that it would be cool if we had the ability to migrate posts from one comm to another. This could be done in two steps:
- mods can "kick" a discussion out of their comms. Those discussions end in a specific comm called c/off-topic, c/general, or whatever the admins of that instance (yup) decide.
- mods can also "adopt" discussions from c/off-topic and bring to their comms.
I feel like this would be the best of both worlds - it's less disruptive to community, but it still allows users to discuss their random junk.
For reference, Ruqqus had a similar feature, with the +general guild being mostly off-topic stuff. It worked fairly well IMO. 4chan also does something similar to the first step, with the /trash/ board.