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.
You have a Reddit doesn’t give a fuck, nobody near the top of Reddit actually gives a fuck about us or you or your mental health, or who’s giving you advice for it
nobody near the top
of Redditactually gives a fuck about us or you or your mental health, or who’s giving you advice for it
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.
Just like TheYellowRose on reddit. She mods black subs and bans anyone not black lolol
I hope it all burns down.
I hope they get a slew of new moderators who make every subreddit unbearable by deleting every good post and leaving only bullshit ones.
That has already happened in the last years.
But this time on purpose.
Let’s rename it to Y first
Huffman does love emulating Musk…
Imagine pissing off your free labour. Spez is a fucking idiot.
People will line up by the thousands to become a new moderator. Reddit will keep their free labour.
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.
That is just wishful thinking. A large number of people on reddit still use it a lot. Enough to not mind sitting there and moderating. If someone stops moderating they know they can be replaced really quickly now.
The amount of people who just want to shit on reddit with their unrealistic expectations is unbelievable lmao
Counterpoint, the quality of moderation was already pretty patchy, and the quality will continue to decrease. The mods who left are the ones with the most integrity. In my opinion, stepping down in protest is a sign of integrity, which is a key trait of a good mod.
The conclusion that the replacements will be worse is just a statistical average taken at face value, so who knows for sure. It isn’t an ironclad conclusion, but I think it’s a bit better than mere wishful thinking.
I think terms like “better” or “worse” are a bit misleading in this case.
Suppose 10% of all newly appointed mods are enough of a good fit for reddit & the community to fulfil the role indefinitely. The other 90% are shit, but will either get sick of it or be exposed as shit within a few months. If you keep rolling the dice, while keeping the less-shit ones then over time the quality of the pool will improve.
I think we also need to acknowledge that reddit is changing. Perhaps you and me prefer the way it was, but there’s plenty of people will be just as happy or happier with whatever it becomes. In some ways maybe newly appointed mods can be a better fit, or able to grow into whatever it is that reddit is becoming.
So while undoubtedly the quality of moderation in some subs will take a nose dive, and may even cause some subs to die, I’m not convince that it will be a significant detriment to reddit’s advertising revenue in the long term. Note that I’m not saying the user experience will ever improve - I think that’s dead.
With all that in mind, I just can’t imagine being a reddit mod, and it’s hard to believe reddit mods saying that they do it for the community. Volunteering for things you care about is great, but you need to keep some dignity.
over time the quality of the pool will improve.
Do you think that’s likely to play out in their favor by IPO time?
Let’s say they have lost 50% of the regular contributors (very optimistic), that still leaves thousands of potential mods.
Another mass exodus will only happen if Reddit continues to rock the boat musk fashion, else it will take years for people to move on.
Another mass exodus will only happen if Reddit continues to rock the boat musk fashion
They haven’t taken down old.reddit yet.
I’ve been kind of wondering if that’s that next paywall they have planned.
I mean, come on. They even locked an app icon behind a paywall. That’s way less useful then the old reddit interface.
I don’t think they’re going to paywall old.reddit, I think they’re just going to do away with it entirely.
People are downvoting you because they’d like to see otherwise, but you’re right. Hell, I’d like to see otherwise, but it’s not gonna happen.
I would have accepted the offer so I can allow porn on the sub and remove every rules
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!
All those moderators in r/openAI were appointed as mods 4 days ago; They locked and removed it because reddit already picked new mods for the community.
I just checked, it is amusing. Did the original moderators lock the thread?
Oh dear and it’s some of their more vulnerable subreddits too like Anxietyhelp and Therapy.
Oh and need some for Chrome, lol.
become moderator for /r/Chrome
Recommend people switch to Firefox
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.
I fully abandoned /r/skin. It took me years to cut down the skincare spam and scams and quack medicine. Might as well invite the spammers back at this rate. I even turned off automod rules.
They IP banned me on all my accts for standing up to their BS. Banned accts that have only 1 post. Its insanity over there, seem like a desperate attempt to change the narrative\reinsert control and its working exactly the opposite.
Lol yeah have a look at moderator TheYellowRose, she has an agenda to push and immediately bans and mutes anybody she disagrees with.
I’ve seen post of women asking about hair style advice and she bans them because they are not black enough for that hairstyle lmfao misery needs company, or a subreddit to mod lol
Let me guess someone wanted dreadlocks… Which are Nordic in origin. They are so ignorant but think they are the smartest person in the room. Truly baffling.
I don’t mind the ban in all honesty, well I miss the niche ones that weren’t toxic. They are going to nuke the most active and the site will be an echo chamber of bots and NPCs and more people will walk away.
So I found your comment about dreadlocks being Nordic interesting and looked it up. Wikipedia claims that oldest depictions of dreadlocks date to the Minoan Civilization on Crete. They are also found in Asia and the Americas which could indicate they are a much older (or common) hairstyle. All very interesting!
/r/oldbabies… I have some ideas for where I’m taking that sub.
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.
Apparently nylonfetish needs a mod. I feel like it’s your time to shine.
“This sub is exclusively for posts related to the fetish of people named Lon that live in New York.”
“This is a fetish sub for people who rob banks with nylons on their head. Such sexy anonymity! Only the sexiest people rob banks with nylons on their head! We’re always looking for new material…”
If you get assigned as a mod for one that they force removed the mods. You could just give control back to the old mods.
Perfect!
“My first action is to reinstate all the old mods. My section action is to resign. Bye!”
Please do it, so many shit moderators like TheYellowRose on reddit suck up mod privileges then destroy subs with their misery
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No, more fun-
- Apply as a moderator.
- Make subreddit private again.
- Repeat if you don’t get banned.
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This is the best way because minimal risk and effort for you, and you can always say you didn’t have access to automated tools to do moderation, which is true.
What risk? They take away the mod position you didn’t really want in the first place?
The risk is that they start suing users that act malicious, and this can’t be seen as malicious just incompetent.
Edit: I don’t see users doing nothing as malicious. I’m talking about the one’s breaking stuff being sued.
Suing unpaid volunteers for not working hard enough? Not a lawyer, but surely you can’t use sue an employee for not working hard enough. Just do a really poor job, don’t moderate well. What are they going to argue?
No they will sue the malicious ones not the ones doing nothing.
A lawsuit requires them to be breaking a law. Doing a shit or even malicious job at something you volunteered for is not against the law. Mods are not employees of reddit. If the argument is that they’re somehow harming the product, that same argument could be extended to the protestors and shitposters. It wouldn’t hold any water in an actual court.
Good for the protesters then, one thing less to worry about.
But those were posted months ago?
So? Ignore it.
What I meant was, the “looking for moderator” posts were posted before the API thing happened.
People should become mods and ban people left and right. Eventually users will get annoyed and leave the platform.😂😂
I wonder how many people you could ban before anyone noticed you were banning everyone?
If you didn’t ban everyone, but just started interpreting things people said with the most uncharitable interpretation you can imagine, then banned them for the things you twisted them to say, you could probably continue that forever. Reddit will always give the mod the most charitable interpretation because that requires the least work, everyone who complains against your capricious bans would just be banned by the admins for harassing you.
What’s the pay like?
$0 per hour, 24 hours, 7 days a week 😏
It’s only gross because they turn a profit on volunteers.
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It’s so weird, there’s no way they’re not intentionally trying to kill the site.
All they’re doing is locking the site down so they can make money and bounce when it’s sold. When its your last day and you’re about to get a fat check if the building is standing you don’t care who’s in it.
They only care that the IPO goes well and that their VC investors recoup as much as they can.
They have no care for anything past that. And if they have to use bots to inflate activity metrics, they will.
They are taking control of those subreddits where mods do not obey, part of more censorship.
They’re just incompetent, and led by that Hitlerjugend looking motherfucker Spez.
Its plain hubris, they really think they know better than us plebs. Its going to get them in the end…
we all must accept this offer, to accelerate the crash of reddit
