Will Reddit get quality replacements? "Not a snowball's chance in hell."
  • @ghariksforge@lemmy.worldEnglish
    -36•2 years ago

    Reddit Mods were never good. They were some of the worst people on Reddit. The admins are the only people worse than the mods.

    • Pons_Aelius
      32•2 years ago

      For a lot of the big subs, sure. But every mod I encountered in the hobby/food/gardening subs were good and ran good spaces.

      • @Clocksstriking13@lemm.eeEnglish
        16•2 years ago

        I can’t figure out where all the lemmy people posting about reddits “power tripping power mods” were posting. I think I ran across one mod in the wild (niche sub) that I thought was crazy and they got run off the platform eventually. What were people posting that they were getting banned all over the place? Maybe the mods weren’t the problem if multiple were banning you?

        • @InternetTubes@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1•2 years ago

          I remember posting about lore outside DnD (Guild Wars 2) to a comic about dragons in dndmemes, which got downvoted because no one understood the reference and it probably didn’t belong there. Mod there still decided to go full on gestapo and begin to question it while I just wanted to move on from a comment I made in a post that showed up on my front page for a reason, and he decided to permaban me from the subreddit for no good reason.

          You’ll have to take my word that I wasn’t combative or that it wasn’t actually something far worse, or you can claim it as people who defend these actions without knowing the circumstances usually do. Literally was my only comment in dndmemes, it wasn’t abusive and the worst that could be claimed was that it probably held only personal relevance to me (but it was already downvoted so it didn’t really require much action).

          Who knows if they just didn’t like something else in my comment history, listened to some arbitrary troll gaslighting my user from some past argument, or if they were just more pissed off than usual because of some unrelated event in their lives and made a user permanently pay for it by getting madder at a comment than they should have. There’s no judiciary or any appreciation of why we have a judiciary in the real world in these sort of websites.

    • JokeDeityEnglish
      -11•2 years ago

      Seriously, 90% of Reddit mods are on a power trip, they permanently ban you and mute you instantly at the slightest transgression or if they just don’t like you. Also, everyone single one of them claims to be one of the good ones, lol.

      • snooggums
        21•2 years ago

        90% of mods did non obvious work like stopping spammers from overrunning subs.

        If you think they all ban for fun then the problem is you.

      • @TeamAssimilation@infosec.pubEnglish
        5•2 years ago

        Ah, but when a subreddit had mostly mods from that 10%, <chef’s kiss>

        AskHistorians, AskScience, WhatIsThisThing, etc.

        Maybe this is another example of Sturgeon’s law.

        • VanillaGorilla
          -5•2 years ago

          Don’t know, I stopped visiting WhatIsThisThing after an encounter with a really trippy mod that handed out bans like candy. But maybe they got kicked and striped of their role

      • @GustavoM@lemmy.worldEnglish
        10•2 years ago

        Most mods tend to follow the quantity of reports they receive from the community. If you post something that triggers lots of random users… then you are screwed.

        And yes, that also happens on Lemmy… as much as folks around here consider it as a “holy ground filled with saints”. :^)

        t. A mod threatened to ban me because I was “spamming” – while I was posting once per day.

      • @Crampon@lemmy.worldEnglish
        -11•2 years ago

        That’s the case for every sub with a political undertone.

        Most subs for your favourite hobby is usually nice. Unless your hobby is US politics, believing walking dogs 5 hours a week is a job, or inventing a patriarchal society to tear down.