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

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Post by pimterry »

Interestingly, each hit of Reddit drama like this does seem to be genuinely driving real migrations elsewhere - the ex-mod's corresponding post about this on KBin (https://kbin.social/m/RedditMigration/t/59559/Removed-as-mod...) now has more votes than this Reddit post, despite it being #1 in the obviously topical ModCoord subreddit, and on the front page of HN.

Not a perfect comparison in any sense obviously, and this doesn't refute any of the limitations & issues with Lemmy/KBin, but there is real traffic starting to move over there regardless.

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

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Post by willvarfar »

pimterry wrote: post #41

Interestingly, each hit of Reddit drama like this does seem to be genuinely driving real migrations elsewhere - the ex-mod's corresponding post about this on KBin ( https://kbin.social/m/RedditMigration/t/59559/Removed-as-mod... ) now has more votes than this Reddit post, despite it being #1 in the obviously topical ModCoord subreddit, and on the front page of HN. Not a perfect comparison in any sense obviously, and…

Does enough users attention migrate to alternatives so those alternatives can build the minimum critical mass to survive longer term?

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

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Post by cr3ative »

mvdtnz wrote: post #19

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> a segment of their website? It's not yours. It never was.

That's really not been the ethos advertised to moderators until now; it was more that unless you caused site instability (legal or otherwise) it was yours to run as you please.

You may be speaking a literal truth, but the emotive background is relevant here.

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

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Post by antupis »

yanderekko wrote: post #20
leoedin wrote: 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 r…

I think we will see effects in long run, if I would start new community 2016 I would have definitely picked Reddit now it is probably Discord or Slack.

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

#47

Post by TRiG_Ireland »

yanderekko wrote: post #20
leoedin wrote: 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 r…

There are also a plethora of Middle-earth communities, and they have very different feels. /r/tolkienfans is not at all the same as /r/silmarillionmemes.

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

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Post by charlieyu1 »

0xAFFFF wrote: post #24
Sentionolo wrote: post #7

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

Good moderation is mostly invisible. Nonexistent or poor moderation becomes obvious very quickly.

For many subreddits, poor moderation is very obvious and have basically become echo chambers

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

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Post by kristopolous »

typon wrote: post #34
kristopolous wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Not to mention spam. There's lots of bots posting just avalanches of garbage upvoted by click farms. It's like these people are coming in driving cars and Reddit management is offering a sturdy pair of walking shoes to try to keep up with them.

Reddit found the one real solution for dealing with spam (human workers) for FREE and pissed it down the drain.

I think it's an exemplar of what's wrong with the modern firm.

C-level management seems to be an insular royal court far removed from the actual mechanics of what makes their company run and not familiar with where the hard work is done and what's the value lost in getting rid of it. It's destructively hierarchical and makes things undirected, disjointed and clashing.

Incoherent executions and incredulous decisions abound. The current practices are clearly idiotic.

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