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

#111
Interesting pathetic response from the moderator immediately bringing up child porn as an excuse. I am beginning to think reddit moderation is some sort of destructive addiction

More reddit entertainment is available in the comments on these news from the subreddit's users

https://www.reddit.com/r/celebrities/comments/14e2c48/the_he...

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

#112

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?

The alternatives to subreddits are other subreddits

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

#113
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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…

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, thu…

Makes sense, though. There isn't much incentive to be a mod on a massive subreddit. The users don't care about you. Reddit doesn't care about you. About all you get in return is some laughs when you strike the ban hammer, which doesn't incentivize good faith moderating.

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

#114
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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.

I babysit a small sub and have removed around 150 pornbots this month. Maybe I should just leave them since votes are sufficient? It would represent over three quarters of the submissions though.

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

#115
Sidebar:

Is there even value in 2023 in having a "subreddit" called /r/Celebrities ? (Or funny, pics, sports, all ... )

It feels like there should be a natural "cap" to a sub's "TAM" or a 100% conversion from catgeory to community subreddits, to limit the blast radius of spam, scams, etc and create clearer rules of engagement for the good faith participants.

Or maybe /r/Celebrities could just be a no-comment curation of top posts of actual celebrity subreddits, with a paid Redditor at the top.

Anyway just weird to me.

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

#116
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Earlier quoted context omitted.

>I am glad that they are getting removed for the good of the community. And you trust the replacements, that in your words are "mostly power tripping and/or want to control the conversation?". Unless you yourself are taking over and trust yourself to not grow to be what you hate? This sounds more like a revolving door in your eyes than cleaning out the trash. why bother if you haven't addressed the core problem?

Just the fact that the new mods don't think they have the right to keep the entire community hostage makes them better than the replaced ones, yes. Although it would be better not to have any mods at all.

I liked the old /. system where everyone could be a moderator occasionally, but you couldn't go haywire because you were limited in how many mod actions you could take within a given time window. It wasn't perfect, but it was a nice take on the moderation problem.

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

#117
The moderator’s supposed post at Lemmy has more details and replies from them, and indicates that they were expecting this outcome eventually:

https://lemmy.world/post/316878

> Edit 2: I’ll also add, that I was never going to re-open the sub because I knew Reddit wasn’t going to yield. Thus, I was prepared for the outcome. I did hope to string them along for a bit longer and waste resources, but you can’t win them all.

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

#119
Why can't mods be completely replaced by AI or bots? I wonder if a GPT-enabled AI mod would be better at serving mods functions. At the very least, it makes sense for the Reddit suits to try.

Community subreddits are better off as cozy internet forums anyways, they don't need Reddit and vice versa.

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

#120

Why can't mods be completely replaced by AI or bots? I wonder if a GPT-enabled AI mod would be better at serving mods functions. At the very least, it makes sense for the Reddit suits to try. Community subreddits are better off as cozy internet forums anyways, they don't need Reddit and vice versa.

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