spiritedpauseReddit Admin team asking for volunteer moderators at tons of subreddits
𝕽𝖚𝖆𝖎𝖉𝖍𝖗𝖎𝖌𝖍More replies than I thought there would be. Are those volunteers?
Some. There seem to be no problem with reforming the mod ranks…
People that have so little going on in life that moderating a community on reddit is fun
I’ve always thought they wanted the power like cops or something
Exactly lol I think police is a hard job and there are good cops but too many meatheads that get out of highschool and need to bully again immediately sign up
Pretty much the Hall Monitor that would rat you out if you didnt have a pass. They always ended up as cops/jailers
Exactly. Of all those I graduated with, the ones that became cops were all either meatheads or were bullied by the meatheads. The hall monitor type would also for sure make sense
I think it’s fine with small communities that very few people visit and interact with. In that case, it’s usually someone that likes to share about the niche hobby or fandom they enjoy learning about and spending time on. The bigger problems start happening when you get a bunch of users, or the moderators go on a power trip, or there is infighting, etc. I used to volunteer for a very small subreddit-- I wrote the CSS because I love visual design, basic rules because you don’t want the like 5 visitors you get to be assholes, etc. I did it because it was a tiny community on a topic I was autistically interested in and I genuinely love learning and teaching about things I enjoy.
Life got in the way and I left, coming back a couple years later to see things had snowballed into a moderator team that staged a coup against its other half, wild infighting in the community, and people power tripping just because they could. Thank goodness I could remember the subreddit as it used to be when I built it.
But I do want to say that I believe this is a problem with any platform, Lemmy included. That’s both the ugly and beautiful thing about community moderation… you can have wonderful and friendly experiences, or you can be beholden to the rule of the most abrasive dickheads you’ve met.
I completely agree. There is a moderator on reddit named TheYellowRose and she moderates every black related subreddit and others as well. She bans people she doesn’t agree with lol some mods are just losers lol
You could expand that to just power in general. There have been amazing and horrible leaders in both the dictator category and democratically elected leader category. Democracy’s main advantage over dictatorships is that it has mechanisms to deal with the bad ones, though even those can fail with sufficient bad faith in the system.
That’s why I think the fediverse needs a robust mod monitoring and evaluation system on instances with good faith admins (instances with bad faith admins should just be avoided entirely). A guide for how to mod/admin in good faith and a way for users to evaluate that would also be good.
I would have loved to be a mod of a reddit community when I was 16 years old
cRazi_manMany will be fine with Reddit and the direction it is going in. There will always be new people coming into Reddit who have no idea of how things had been. Some will be more than happy to become mods. Reddit is still going to be active. They’re going to refill the empty mod ranks and carry on as normal. The platform will happily carry on, we just jump ship from the shit show. So yeah people may well keep falling over themselves to engage with this new Reddit.
From what I’ve seen a lot of them are trolling the admins in the replies.
Stuff like:
As a former mod, I think there is no better choice for a new moderator of r/malefashionadvice than myself. My plan for the subreddit is simple. It’s time to put “male” back in malefashionadvice. That means mandatory penis inspections before anyone is allowed to give advice or post in WAYWT. If high school sports teams can do it, why can’t we? Thank you for your consideration.
I would like to moderate this subreddit. I think getting rid of third party apps and removing the mfa mod team were awesome decisions and I want to expand on those ideas as a new and improved mod. First obviously we would institute bans on anyone who has participated in the misguided reddit protests. Second to make sure that reddit is effectively monetizing we will ban direct links to clothing websites and instead link through a new reddit shopping portal. Lastly i would ban the word scab, its distracting people from the content.
I’d like to be a mod because I think Spez is a dishonest creep, as is everyone involved in the ModCodeofConduct account, and I pledge to do my very best to burn all your efforts to the ground.
There’s obviously going to be some begging for it, but I can’t tell which of those are actually wanting it, or pretending to want it just to troll more.
i would ban the word scab
Pure poetry.
ijeffSome trolling but there are always people who will jump at any opportunity to “take over” a community and it’s almost always for the wrong reasons.
Also just a heads up that your user icon isn’t loading from your home instance nor mine.
Luckily those users usually won’t put in a decent effort to make the place enjoyable. They’ll just contribute to the downfall
This is very true. Although I’m also seeing some of these same folks seeking mod roles and advocating for centralizing on this side as well.
Huh. I wonder why. It’s loading in all of my clients - but, then, I was subscribed to a community on feddit.de, and it disappeared on me about a week later (I simply can’t get to it). I figured there were some defederation shenanigans going on, on one side or the other, but maybe midwest.social is having some issues instead.
I try to not care about problems with social networking; I find it’s easier to maintain my chill that way.
Thanks for the heads-up!
It looks like your instance is still federated with them: midwest.social/instances. The community might have just been deleted altogether. You can verify by checking the modlog, which is publicly accessible with Lemmy.
You probably uploaded your profile picture before a pictrs rollback, which would mean it appears for all of your clients and browsers that have cached it but if you pull up an incognito window it’ll likely be missing. You’ll have to re-upload it for them to show for anyone else. Cheers!
Thanks! I’ll check that.
Also, in case you’re wondering what it looks like (it’s the same from lemdro.id and midwest.social) :).
That is my avatar. Black, like my soul.
I need to re-upload it.
Interesting…