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[–] 293 points 3 years ago (2 children)
  • [–] 132 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    I hope they get a slew of new moderators who make every subreddit unbearable by deleting every good post and leaving only bullshit ones.

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

    Imagine pissing off your free labour. Spez is a fucking idiot.

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  • [–] 64 points 3 years ago (7 children)

    People will line up by the thousands to become a new moderator. Reddit will keep their free labour.

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  • [–] 114 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) (8 children)

    Of course they will, and at least 90% of those will stop moderating within a week bcause they have no idea what it entails and just like the sound of having power.

    Another 9.99% will push personal agendas, post ads, malware, etc. or a dozen other things that will kill the sub.

    In the end they'll probably get decent moderatos for less than a tenth of those they seek.

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    [–] 160 points 3 years ago (10 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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    [+] 124 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) (2 children)
  • [–] 115 points 3 years ago (4 children)

    I am so tempted to volunteer.

    And then immediately go malicious compliance, turning everything NSFW and creating funky rules for whatever subreddit they give me.

    • /r/Chrome would be exclusively about chromed-metal-centric DIY projects and car mods, everything else gets deleted and you get banned for repeat offenses.
    • /r/therapy would just have a single stickied link to a how-to-delete-your-reddit-data-and-profile guide.

    Etc, etc.

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    [–] 86 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) (3 children)

    I find it especially concerning that subreddits dedicated to mental health like r/Anxietyhelp or r/therapy are just thrown into the mix to have some randoms be mods. They could easily come with bad intentions and even well intentioned individuals could inadvertently cause a lot of harm.The job of managing any community dedicated to helping those suffering from mental health issues is by no means an easy task just anyone can do. A lot of knowledge about mental health and certain subtle/not easily recognizable problems (i.e. covert incitement of suicide) is required. This is not something any responsible admin would just give away to just about anyone like this.

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

    And usually the moderators are people who suffer from said mental illnesses, so they know how to manage the community in a way that would be weird for a person who doesn’t suffer from mental illnesses would.

    Simply put, a neurodivergent mod is more likely to relate to neurodivergent user than a neurotypical mod would relate to a neurodivergent user.

    I agree, a lot of harm could be done if we throw random moderators in these subreddits.

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    [–] 79 points 3 years ago (4 children)

    We don't need no water, let the motherfucker burn.

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    [–] 67 points 3 years ago (6 children)

    They haven't gotten to mine yet (/r/sandals and /r/flipflops). I still have them set as private. The admins won't be happy with whoever takes over because they will 100% turn them into NSFW fetish subs.

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    [–] 64 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    My favorite so far is /r/OpenAI, where the moderators locked and deleted the post call and the replies are mostly promises to enable NSFW pics only. 😂 Good mods!

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    [–] 59 points 3 years ago (5 children)

    It's so weird, there's no way they're not intentionally trying to kill the site.

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    [–] 54 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    I am a mod of a dedicated niche Discord fanclub server. We run the server well enough that the actual creator of the thing we like & owner/admin of the official server pops in occasionally to say hi, interact, and give updates on events & future releases. Hell, even the mod team from the official server joined our server for a more casual experience.

    If I wasn't passionate about the subject, there's no way I'd be helping to maintain it out of the "good of my heart". The work of moderating something with an ultra-large fanbase? If you don't truly and passionately care about it, forget it! And even if you did, it can still be too much of am endeavor to put up with for free!

    To let just any rando moderate a community will lead to its downfall. I'm especially worried when it comes to things like mental health & recovery subs.

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    [–] 49 points 3 years ago (1 child)
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    Did the mods leave on their own or were they thrown out after the blackout?

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    [–] 45 points 3 years ago

    Oh man, that's a huge potential for trolling right there!

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

    Just wait until they enact the draft.

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  • [–] 31 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago)

    u/ModCodeOfConduct: "Congratulations, soldier! You've been promoted to moderator of r/suicidewatch!"

    Recipient: "...But I'm just a 13 year old with depression and anxiety myself! And my account is only 8 days old!"

    u/ModCodeOfConduct: "Report for duty right now, slacker! The mod queue is filled up, and you have a job to do!"

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

    r/therapy and r/anxietyhelp

    I'm sure this will go well.

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    [–] 36 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    It’s only gross because they turn a profit on volunteers.

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    Sadly, my local laws, consider volunteering for a company as illegal work. So I can't help reddit. Of course there is dome exception, but none applies here.

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    [–] 27 points 3 years ago

    I checked and there are 14 posts requesting mods in the past 6 days.

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  • [–] 25 points 3 years ago

    no. pay me.

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

    This is how communities go to shit. On average, the people signing up to mod are losers with nothing better going on, then they abuse their new powers they obtained by simply responding to a post

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    [–] 23 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    I think they misspelled "pawns" when they said volunteers.

    These mods will be patsy's for the Reddit exec team to keep up the illusion of community until the stock IPOs.

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    [–] 21 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    People should become mods and ban people left and right. Eventually users will get annoyed and leave the platform.😂😂

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