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Re: Removed as moderator of /r/Celebrities after over 14 years

#11

I have no clue what moderates really do and I have not seen any difference yet on reddit.

Not much. Plenty of nonsense posts/comments are ignored by moderators but the community just downvotes them mostly out of sight. I would say the community itself does most of the work and always has been the case.

Re: Removed as moderator of /r/Celebrities after over 14 years

#13

I have no clue what moderates really do and I have not seen any difference yet on reddit.

Not much. Plenty of nonsense posts/comments are ignored by moderators but the community just downvotes them mostly out of sight. I would say the community itself does most of the work and always has been the case.

You could not be more wrong. The work is mostly invisible to end users.

Re: Removed as moderator of /r/Celebrities after over 14 years

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Subreddit was shut down while mod team worked on an anti-CSAM bot to help moderate after reddit announced the shutdown of existing tools. Imagine there’s a bit more to the story: tools only shut down June 30th. But still notable. Shutdown obviously hurting Reddit still if they’re resorting to such measures and taking such risks.

there are mod tools that deleted their api keys in protest last week.

Re: Removed as moderator of /r/Celebrities after over 14 years

#15
post #6

So they just expelled one of the people that helped make Reddit what it is today? No loyalty at all is there.

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They were expressing their loyalties by saying they want to keep working for free for the company … as long as their tools aren’t deliberately broken by the company. Moderators can’t moderate without the API.

Re: Removed as moderator of /r/Celebrities after over 14 years

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post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Not much. Plenty of nonsense posts/comments are ignored by moderators but the community just downvotes them mostly out of sight. I would say the community itself does most of the work and always has been the case.

You could not be more wrong. The work is mostly invisible to end users.

Not really. Sort by new and take a look yourself. Nonsense posts get downvoted before a moderator has to do anything. People who sort by top or whatever never see it.

Re: Removed as moderator of /r/Celebrities after over 14 years

#20
post #5

It's interesting seeing this situation play out across different subreddits. There seems to be 2 kinds of subreddits - the "category" kind (simple, descriptive name) and the "community" kind (have a defined purpose, could exist under a whole range of names) The moderators of all of them see themselves as somehow owning the community, but I think that's less clear to the users. To most users, r/Celebrities is a catego…

I'd distinguish between small and large communities. For example, if the World of Warcraft subreddit implodes somehow it's basically guaranteed that another one will arise, although you do often get awkward userbase splits, eg. /r/gameofthrones vs. /r/freefolk. I'd say that basically any community with 100k members will continue onwards from a mod implosion.

For smaller communities (For communities in the 10k-100k range, I could see things going either way.

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