I hope it all burns down.
this post was submitted on 23 Jul 2023
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I hope they get a slew of new moderators who make every subreddit unbearable by deleting every good post and leaving only bullshit ones.
That has already happened in the last years.
But this time on purpose.
Imagine pissing off your free labour. Spez is a fucking idiot.
People will line up by the thousands to become a new moderator. Reddit will keep their free labour.
Of course they will, and at least 90% of those will stop moderating within a week bcause they have no idea what it entails and just like the sound of having power.
Another 9.99% will push personal agendas, post ads, malware, etc. or a dozen other things that will kill the sub.
In the end they'll probably get decent moderatos for less than a tenth of those they seek.
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Not to rain on the ‘fuck reddit’ parade, because well, fuck reddit, but the volunteer mod requests in the image are all two to three months old. Wasn’t all the backlash from the API decision only in mid-June?
Good point, but it looks like it's still ongoing.
Ha, one of them is The Monkey's Paw. How apropos.
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Great point, but if they were struggling to find mods before the meltdown it does not bode well.
I follow a sports team sub. On most days we discuss players, teams, etc. But on game day a mob of rowdy people stop by. The game threads get several posts a minute. I cannot image trying to police that while trying to watch the game.
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I am so tempted to volunteer.
And then immediately go malicious compliance, turning everything NSFW and creating funky rules for whatever subreddit they give me.
- /r/Chrome would be exclusively about chromed-metal-centric DIY projects and car mods, everything else gets deleted and you get banned for repeat offenses.
- /r/therapy would just have a single stickied link to a how-to-delete-your-reddit-data-and-profile guide.
Etc, etc.
Apparently nylonfetish needs a mod. I feel like it's your time to shine.
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I find it especially concerning that subreddits dedicated to mental health like r/Anxietyhelp or r/therapy are just thrown into the mix to have some randoms be mods. They could easily come with bad intentions and even well intentioned individuals could inadvertently cause a lot of harm.The job of managing any community dedicated to helping those suffering from mental health issues is by no means an easy task just anyone can do. A lot of knowledge about mental health and certain subtle/not easily recognizable problems (i.e. covert incitement of suicide) is required. This is not something any responsible admin would just give away to just about anyone like this.
And usually the moderators are people who suffer from said mental illnesses, so they know how to manage the community in a way that would be weird for a person who doesn’t suffer from mental illnesses would.
Simply put, a neurodivergent mod is more likely to relate to neurodivergent user than a neurotypical mod would relate to a neurodivergent user.
I agree, a lot of harm could be done if we throw random moderators in these subreddits.
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They haven't gotten to mine yet (/r/sandals and /r/flipflops). I still have them set as private. The admins won't be happy with whoever takes over because they will 100% turn them into NSFW fetish subs.
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My favorite so far is /r/OpenAI, where the moderators locked and deleted the post call and the replies are mostly promises to enable NSFW pics only. 😂 Good mods!
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It's so weird, there's no way they're not intentionally trying to kill the site.
They are taking control of those subreddits where mods do not obey, part of more censorship.
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I am a mod of a dedicated niche Discord fanclub server. We run the server well enough that the actual creator of the thing we like & owner/admin of the official server pops in occasionally to say hi, interact, and give updates on events & future releases. Hell, even the mod team from the official server joined our server for a more casual experience.
If I wasn't passionate about the subject, there's no way I'd be helping to maintain it out of the "good of my heart". The work of moderating something with an ultra-large fanbase? If you don't truly and passionately care about it, forget it! And even if you did, it can still be too much of am endeavor to put up with for free!
To let just any rando moderate a community will lead to its downfall. I'm especially worried when it comes to things like mental health & recovery subs.
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3 months ago?
Looks like OP scrolled down a little too far in the user profile. There are several more from the last week, and they're all downvoted:
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Did the mods leave on their own or were they thrown out after the blackout?
I think a bit of both
Spez called them "landed gentry" so most of them ( with self respect anyway) left.
Left or have made things difficult for the admins.
Got the "You must reopen within 3 days" crap from the admins. Opened it, but they got the monkey paw as well. Set it such that every comment/post has to have an insanely long line of gibberish in order to get past AutoModerator. No one can comment, post or even edit now. Once the admins go away, I'll re-privatize it.
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Oh man, that's a huge potential for trolling right there!
Just wait until they enact the draft.
u/ModCodeOfConduct: "Congratulations, soldier! You've been promoted to moderator of r/suicidewatch!"
Recipient: "...But I'm just a 13 year old with depression and anxiety myself! And my account is only 8 days old!"
u/ModCodeOfConduct: "Report for duty right now, slacker! The mod queue is filled up, and you have a job to do!"
What's the pay like?
$0 per hour, 24 hours, 7 days a week 😏
Sadly, my local laws, consider volunteering for a company as illegal work. So I can't help reddit. Of course there is dome exception, but none applies here.
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I checked and there are 14 posts requesting mods in the past 6 days.
no. pay me.
This is how communities go to shit. On average, the people signing up to mod are losers with nothing better going on, then they abuse their new powers they obtained by simply responding to a post
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People should become mods and ban people left and right. Eventually users will get annoyed and leave the platform.😂😂
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I think they misspelled "pawns" when they said volunteers.
These mods will be patsy's for the Reddit exec team to keep up the illusion of community until the stock IPOs.
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No.
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