A few examples include s*x questions on askreddit, “this” comments, nolife powermods, jokes being more frequent than actual answers
A few examples include s*x questions on askreddit, “this” comments, nolife powermods, jokes being more frequent than actual answers
I think the whole “no life mods” thing got a bit overblown. Reddit communities flourished generally due to the ones that had good active moderation. Setting a consistent theme and tone for the subreddit and keeping the bad actors out. It takes a lot of work, they did it for free and we benefited.
The issue is when some people are mods for tons of major communities. That’s when it is overreaching.
/r/askhistorians had very strict mods and was better for it.
yup. Good moderation makes or breaks the community.
They needed some form of notice to users in the form of a tag at post title level when all the comments had been deleted.
Why? It was always the same answer. People posting personal takes without any credentials or cited sources.
Because of this. You would see an interesting question, and enter the thread to read the responses and comments, only to find the the whole thread had been nuked. You would only find that out once you’d clicked into the thread, so I’m saying what was needed were tags stating something to the effect of “no comments here, don’t bother”
Agreed but I do think that’s because the nature of the sub was more academic though, so having some kind of rigor makes sense. Not sure that’s the model to follow for every community
Almost every time I saw someone complaining about the mods, I would take a gander at their comment history, and surprise surprise it was almost always full of edgelord shit.
Honestly, one of my favourite subs despite the very strict moderation (every post had to be manually approved) was r/tombstoning. Literally just images of newspaper articles where the headline and any related images/articles were very unfortunately placed. The mods basically ensured no reposts or posts that weren’t quite correct got in - so the sub basically got a reputation of only having a post every other week or so, but when you saw a tombstoning post you’d know it was quality.