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One of the original ideas was with the up and down arrows, the good content rises to the top. The problem with heavy handed moderators is that they are often bi
by opiemonster 6y ago
One of the original ideas was with the up and down arrows, the good content rises to the top. The problem with heavy handed moderators is that they are often biased and many get on a power trip.
- dmoy 6y agoFor a sufficiently large sub there is no time for power tripping. Only an endless queue of spam and vitirol
- CogentHedgehog 6y agoThis, more or less. Even if someone wanted to powertrip like crazy they literally wouldn't be able to do much. Delete 100 comments? Wait 15 minutes and another 100 will replace them.
- CogentHedgehog 6y agoPeople assume "mod powertripping" too quickly. The reality is that most of the moderation is accomplished via automation, primarily Automoderator rules on Reddit. The volume is far to high to manage by hand -- it varies by community and month but it's around 75%+ automated for us. Automation makes mistakes. A LOT. Sometimes a person catches them and overrides the bot, often they don't. There are some communities that abuse the automation to enforce bias, of course. For example, /r/news appears to be auto-censoring things about coronavirus or that might be perceived as negative for Trump (ex: the Russian bounties scandal). But this is much rarer than people think -- with the exception of bans, most of the "mod abuse" is simply bots screwing up.