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Moderators are needed, of course and im glad i am not one. But i can only imagine how much of a burn out job with little satisfaction it must be. Like data entr
by ansible 9y ago
Moderators are needed, of course and im glad i am not one. But i can only imagine how much of a burn out job with little satisfaction it must be. Like data entry jobs in the past.
I'm one of the moderators over on reddit.com/r/AskEngineers.
It is work... that I don't get paid for. Or any kind of reward, really.
But I'm doing it because I want to promote high-quality discussion on various engineering topics. I'm glad when we can help each other out by answering questions.
To be a moderator, ideally you're in it for the long term, by trying to guide your community in a good direction, educate people, uphold standards of good and civil discussion.
- losteverything 9y agoDo you manage time so that there is planned downtime? Like no moderating weekends or 8/40/5? Or is it a mostly 24/7 look-at-all-new-posts thing
- ansible 9y agoThere's only 65K subscribers, so it isn't a huge sub compared to others. And /r/AskEngineers is a pretty well-behaved bunch for the most part, so it isn't too hard. I'm usually checking the new queue and moderation queue a couple times per day. It's good to have multiple active moderators, who are in different timezones to provide better 24/7 coverage.