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As a recent user who now has mod status (500+ reputation), I find moderators don't get any recognition really maybe my perspective is skewed. We talk about how
by Kagerjay 8y ago
As a recent user who now has mod status (500+ reputation), I find moderators don't get any recognition really maybe my perspective is skewed. We talk about how unfriendly SO is, but moderators do keep the quality of SO in check to some degree, even at the cost of "marking it as duplicate" among other things. Its almost like stackoverflow has the same issues as subreddit moderators, perhaps they could learn a thing or two here? I've had to mod my own subreddits as well
I know recently stackoverflow has started to push fake posts under the "review queue" to gauge if you are actually moderating correctly.
I still get frustrated as a user asking a question on stackoverflow. I have had my share of questions marked as duplicates. I tried arguing and fixing the wording of it after the fact, it still is downvoted (-1) and still marked as duplicate.
- corobo 8y agoModeration is naturally a recognition-less job - If you do it right, nobody knows you've done anything at all The problem comes in when others are doing the moderation in a negative way, because the good bar is set at "can't see what I did" every moderator gets lumped in with the bad moderators who dupe and close and offtopic everything for internet rep points If it's recognition you're after being a SO or subreddit mod is not the way to get it
- jjeaff 8y agoWait, so SO is creating trick posts to find out if their completely uncompensated moderators are doing their job? You'd immediately lose me as a moderator when that happened.
- Kagerjay 8y agoAs a new moderator (as of 2 months ago) they threw in about 20% trick posts to see if I was moderating correctly. They told me when I failed and passed them. Example, on June 2018. https://i.imgur.com/YIVXX87.png https://i.imgur.com/YIVXX87.png