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

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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 think mods are power tripping and starting to think they are the owners of Reddit.

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

#52
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…

reddit has some of the worst mods I’ve ever seen in any capacity. And they’re frequently in control of massive subreddits.

I remember when hate speech was just discovered as a reason to ban people, and mods of major subreddits would find ways to use that either out of protest or complete incompetence to ban people. For example, banning users for disagreeing with a controversial decision because “I hate your take, thus it is hate speech.”

Or the constant other entitled drama like when a soccer subreddit started mass banning people discussing a major game because his team lost.

There’s also just constant nuking of entire threads and locking them with no reason other than a blanket accusatory pinned comment about how “everybody” can’t behave. Nothing better than opening a thread about a picture they took of their dog only to find thousands of deleted comments and a temper tantrum post from some mod. Or multiple pinned spam posts from mods advertising junk in like a 5000 character copy paste spam in every post that just adds to the useless scrolling you have to do to see legitimate content.

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

#53
post #39
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…

You’re right that no mod owns a particular subreddit, but Reddit does not have a monopoly on communities either. There are a bunch of forums online which will gladly accept an influx of refugees from reddit, and the world will move on. If there isn’t one, one will form, somewhere. However, past behaviour also predicts future behaviour. The current actions of board of directors (and the silence of others) speaks volum…

The alternatives are crap right now and they might move on but unless the masses jump onto Lemmy or Mastodon, Reddit will continue to dominate. I tried those two other sites and they are just terrible.

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

#55
post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

>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 Reddit is under no obligation to find these terms acceptable. Moderators absolutely can moderate without the API.

This statement is supported by you being a long-standing moderator of which subreddit again?

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

#56
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…

>The users don't really care about the culture, they just want someone to delete the spam

for larger subs, I think users underestimate how much trouble it is to do that job. And Reddit hasn't made it easier for mods to do that. On the contrary, this move will make it more time consuming to delete spam.

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

#57
post #24

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.

That's what I've come to appreciate about HN. I'm further reminded of this by the volume of (largely negative) interactions I've had with Reddit mods over the years.

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

#58

This may be the place to talk about alternatives to reddit since discourse about that is banned there. So far I've heard only about Lemmy. Are there others sites redditors reading this could be redirected to?

Let’s share the Lemmy Explorer page, to explore Lemmy communities: https://lemmyverse.net/communities

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

#59
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 don't think ownership is the right descriptor for how most mods feel about "their" subreddit. I would hazard a guess that most mods feel more like stakeholders, having already done a large amount of unpaid labour should entitle them to have some say over the future direction of that subreddit.

Perhaps, but they should check what their contact says.

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

#60
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 you need to inflate your numbers these days. 100k back in the time admins stepped in for r/wow isn't 100k today.

I'd say the bar is more around 500k, with 300-500k being the uncertain range. I definitely can think of some 100-300k communities that will be irrevocably damaged if they tried to split (usually ones focused on specific genres, or subs focused on personalities or series). I can't think of any sub <100k that would survive in this decade if ruptured.

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