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[–] VelociCatTurd 132 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

For those who don’t want to have to open Reddit:

New moderators needed - comment on this post to volunteer to become a moderator of this community. Hello everyone - this community is in need of a few new mods and you can use the comments on this post to volunteer and let us know why you’d like to be a mod.

Please use at least 3 sentences to explain why you’d like to be a mod and what moderation experience you have (it’s okay if you don’t have any! But do tell us why you believe you’d be able to help here)

[–] [email protected] 102 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Looking forward to them getting a bunch of people who immediately take it NSFW again

[–] zaph 33 points 1 year ago (2 children)

They're definitely going to look at comment history

[–] [email protected] 41 points 1 year ago

"This 1 hour old account seems like the perfect mod."

[–] Oderus 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Delete all historical comments.

[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You honestly believe reddits admins can't see your deleted comments....?

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[–] samus12345 33 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I don't think there's a single serious response. Good.

[–] Stovetop 17 points 1 year ago

There are sadly a few scabs down towards the bottom. A couple of mega-mods who only care about how many subreddits they have under their belts.

[–] ferne 22 points 1 year ago

"Please use at least 3 sentences". I can't even.

[–] SmarfDurden 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I also just took this screenshot of the page:

https://i.imgur.com/1Rk2FqQ.jpeg

(edit: updated link)

[–] flossdaily 83 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Slow motion suicide.

This is almost as funny as when Drew Curtis killed Fark.com, or when Digg killed themselves.

They all forgot that they only thing keeping them successful was that users liked them better than the alternatives.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)
[–] flossdaily 49 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

Fark was the first aggregator of its kind. The headlines were hilarious and the curated content was really great.

Unfortunately Drew's ego killed the place. Digg arrived and was allowing a true democracy of content. Instead of Fark empowering its users the same way, they continued to control the content from the top. So, people went to where THEY had the power.

[–] TeddE 26 points 1 year ago

Jeez, doesn't that sound familiar.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

Ahhh, yes, FARK. The diconomy of mods posting right-wing bullshit and more sane posters calling out said bullshit was interesting, to say the least.

Didn't really bother with Digg. Just went from FARK straight to Reddit.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

So Drew didn't really kill Fark, he just didn't change it to be something that wasn't Fark and lost users to people that wanted something different.

I don't think that's what Spez is doing to Reddit at all. Spez is actively trying to make Reddit into a cookie cutter social media platform, which it is (was) not.

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[–] [email protected] 41 points 1 year ago

Even the people that haven't left Reddit seem seem to be pretty hostile toward Reddit. It's like why are you still here? You can make more of a statement by leaving.

BTW, thanks for the Reddit free link, don't want to even give them my traffic.

[–] soEZ 38 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Love all the mod volunteer comments..lmao.

[–] [email protected] 85 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I would like to be a mod to help ensure a safe and civil environment for good-faith discussions and knowledge sharing within the community. Unfortunately as an AI system I do not have any direct moderation experience, but I have vast language knowledge, am good at identifying toxic content and common negative speech patterns, and aim to provide unbiased and fair responses which I believe could help me moderate effectively with human oversight. Overall, I want to use my abilities to have a positive impact and help make the community a better place.

Rofl

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 year ago

Kind of bummed that the r/LifeProTips mod team seems to have submitted a real request to take over. Just kind of disappointed in the team over there.

[–] voodooattack 31 points 1 year ago (11 children)

Any screenshots for those not wanting to muddy their feet?

[–] SmarfDurden 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Here's the actual image link instead of imgurs front end crap. (skips the 'are you 18??' check too)

https://i.imgur.com/1Rk2FqQ.jpeg

Open the non direct link, select 'show desktop site' if your on mobile, then right click/long press on the image and select 'open image in new tab' to get the image link.

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 year ago

I nominate ChatGPT to moderate every one of their shitty subs. Obligatory fuck you spez.

I deleted all my comments and years old accounts a month ago and haven't been back since. Reddit is dead to me, just like Digg before.

[–] DrTautology 29 points 1 year ago (1 children)

"We need morons so we can exploit their labor." -Reddit

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[–] WexMajor 26 points 1 year ago

Every day they make it more and more unattractive for me to want to go back there lmao.

[–] assassin_aragorn 26 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah they're fucked. New moderation will never work if the users don't support it. And judging from the comments, they definitely don't support it.

[–] ChunkMcHorkle 57 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I want to be a mod because I just fucking love bootlicking. Can't get enough of that sweet sweet leather. I don't have any mod experience, but I once smeared my own shit on the wall of a bathroom in a truck stop in kentucky, if that helps.

Those comments are gold.

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago (2 children)
  1. request it
  2. close it back down
[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

1: request it

2: turn it into a scat fetish page

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

NGL I considered applying and then just not using reddit like I'm doing now if I was selected but as the mod of a small niche subreddit (which I'm not actually moderating, but also never needed to) I figured they would probably look at it and see the stickied post with the link to the Lemmy community I made and I ultimately decided it wasn't worth the effort to try that troll.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)

SLPT: Become the new mods, and fuck shit up from within.

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago
[–] reddig33 16 points 1 year ago

Reading the mod volunteer replies makes me thankful I don’t work in an HR office having to review résumés.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

If you want people who do what you want, PAY THEM. Seems pretty simple.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (4 children)

How can I view this on mobile?

[–] thorbot 9 points 1 year ago

Just don’t

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)
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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Tries to force me to read it on the Reddit app. No.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

There's a screenshot for those who don't want to give traffic to Reddit
(Or go to replies and say to switch to Lemmy)https://i.imgur.com/fWmOxZe.png

[–] LUHG_HANI 7 points 1 year ago

Somebody said they wanted to leave for a Reddit like Threads. Wtf. Anyway, isn't that just mastadon.

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