Good riddance. The moderators are the worst part of Reddit. Just pay someone to do their job.
What a terrible, toxic capitalist take.
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#22Good riddance. The moderators are the worst part of Reddit. Just pay someone to do their job.
Agreed.
Just my opinion: most mods I've encountered seem like smarmy, smug, and sanctimonious petty tyrants who need to touch grass.
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#24Quote from him in the NBC interview: “…a business owner can be fired by its shareholders…”
You know, I think he may be on to something there. Maybe someone should look into that for oh, say, the CEO of Reddit.
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#25There goes reddit. No one wants an unmoderated slop.
I wouldn’t mind it.
I moderate some smallish subs (5-10k users) and don’t really make many mod actions. Maybe 5 in the past 15 years. The subs are still pretty good as measured by increasing subscriber counts and my own enjoyment.
I think the huge subs probably get a bunch of spam, but then I ignore them even with moderation.
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#26There goes reddit. No one wants an unmoderated slop.
Some of them go waaaay too far. Mass purges of disagreement/dissent have become normal on there, but they're now going after 'prethoughtcrime' - banning anybody who's ever posted to any of a growing list of subreddits deemed 'bad'.
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#27Good riddance. The moderators are the worst part of Reddit. Just pay someone to do their job.
A lot of well run subs would never exist in the first place without good mods. A very good example of that is /r/askhistorians, without a heavy enforcement of their guidelines the quality of that sub would be absolute trash.
There are definitely a lot of bad mods, even more in popular subs, and even more in popular subs that are not centered around a community of hobbyist and/or fans. The value of reddit is not this trash though, it's the subs that are well moderated and curated to avoid the spamming, low effort/low quality content and so on. Because the torrent of low quality meme-like content can be found in any number of platforms: 9gag, imgur, etc. but very few places have a /r/askhistorians or a 30k active users community for a niche hobby.
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#28Good riddance. The moderators are the worst part of Reddit. Just pay someone to do their job.
:-) Good luck finding a qualified paid army of mods doing this at reddit scale. Even if they manage to find, do they have the money?
Easy - go the google, make a deal with open ai for a mod bot that's just good enough.
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#29Let's just migrate to lemmy, reddit is EOL
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#30Ha. There were some weird posts from new users in subreddits I frequent. 'we need to rise up against the mods the blackout is an outrage!' It was met with unanimous wtf is wrong with you, go outside. I get the feeling spez is creating new accounts and posting as them again.
They can easily use shit like ChatGPT to astroturf tbh.