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I have no clue what moderates really do and I have not seen any difference yet on reddit.
So they just expelled one of the people that helped make Reddit what it is today? No loyalty at all is there.
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.
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.
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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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.
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…
For smaller communities (For communities in the 10k-100k range, I could see things going either way.