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Reddit Admin team asking for volunteer moderators at tons of subreddits (lemmy.world)
submitted 3 years ago by to c/reddit@lemmy.world
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[–] 160 points 3 years ago (4 children)

Not to rain on the ‘fuck reddit’ parade, because well, fuck reddit, but the volunteer mod requests in the image are all two to three months old. Wasn’t all the backlash from the API decision only in mid-June?

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  • [–] 96 points 3 years ago (3 children)

    Good point, but it looks like it's still ongoing.

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  • [–] 10 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    What are the replies like? Some have a lot so it doesn't appear they're struggling at all.

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  • [–] 57 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) (2 children)

    I haven't even looked honestly, just looked up the account. I don't really care whether they fill them or not, I only go back to reddit now for /r/sbcgaming and /r/ereader since those communities haven't really picked up here yet (though maybe they will in time).

    Edit - I just looked. It seems to be a lot of people saying "I wouldn't be a good mod, no thanks" or "let me be a mod, I'll totally let people post lewd pics," "pick me, I'll reinstate the old mods," "I'll gladly abuse my power, sure" and stuff of that variety. So no, doesn't look like it's a big rush to fill the spots. Mostly a lot of snark for the majority of them. MaleFashionAdvice seemed to be an exception with people looking to take the mod spot and they were all ridiculously downvoted.

    Edit 2 - I especially liked this one:

    u/spez can take his IPO and shove it up his ass. Join us at Lemmy. We can build it into something corporate dickwads can't take from us.

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  • [–] 35 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Great point, but if they were struggling to find mods before the meltdown it does not bode well.

    I follow a sports team sub. On most days we discuss players, teams, etc. But on game day a mob of rowdy people stop by. The game threads get several posts a minute. I cannot image trying to police that while trying to watch the game.

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  • [–] 13 points 3 years ago (3 children)

    Can you see the solid red Snoo avatar next to each post?

    Yeah, those are Reddit admins.

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  • [–] 9 points 3 years ago

    Who else would post such stuff? Regular users, other mods? If a sub has no mods the admins have to step in. So this distinction you are making serves no purpose.

    This bot account is actually making recent posts, why the fuck is there a pic of these months old one?

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  • [–] 12 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Yeah, I don't understand why they posted this image. There's much more current posts of the same thing, some in the last two days.

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  • [–] 5 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    It's a reposting bot.

    Jk, probably.

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