For the sake of order and understanding all previous posts regarding moderation will be listed below. It would be nice to have all ongoing discussion in this one central post that I'm speaking in right now. I will chime everyone that has expressed actual interest in actual discussion.
The goal is to have community consensus to the best ability regarding a new mod to be active, I have reached out in modmail and PM'd Clem so they are aware if they are in fact currently around.
I'm requesting to be mod and am open to questions in that regard. For those that don't know me, I've been here since this community was created via an invite from the original mod, Axolotl Peyotl and have been active the last 5 years. I would hope my reputation has shown it's own proof that I care for this community and members, if not, I am willing to provide assurances to any concerns.
Here are the posts that (I'm aware) currently relate to this topic:
https://communities.win/c/Meta/p/1ARK0LXq6i/cconspiracies-has-had-no-active-/c
https://communities.win/c/Conspiracies/p/1ARK0NmhL7/cconspiracies-has-had-no-active-/c
https://communities.win/c/Conspiracies/p/1ARK0No4Rw/does-the-community-want-more-act/c
https://communities.win/c/Conspiracies/p/1ARK0RBc7L/community-question-your-response/c
Here are the users that seemed interested in discussion:
If I've misread the replies and have left off any others that were interested in this discussion, please correct me.
Good idea. Yet "we" don't have the power to remove the flag, nor to approve Conspiracies for Trending, which requires that admin be motivated in favor of this idea. And if we didn't flag individual posts, admin has repeated declared motivation against the idea.
To recapitulate, we could easily declare consensus that we need 2 or 3 mods, that we would like admin's consent to mod them after we deliberate about who they are, that the mods will remove the Politics general flag so admin can add us to Trending, and that the mods will mark the few political posts as "NSFW" with a sidebar explanation that this means "Not Safe For World" which we have redefined as meaning they are political. Anything short of that doesn't seem to meet the goal you suggest (of the admins letting us be).