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I'm having difficulty seeing how this comment relates to the post.

by d23 4y ago

c7DJTLrn 4y ago
It's relevant because the moderator in the OP is a teenager and I question if kids should be handed the reigns to moderate like this no questions asked.
- jstarfish 4y ago
  If nobody is being harmed, why not. It's unpaid management experience. Giving kids responsibilities drives maturity.
  - permalac 4y ago
    Add /s or people will not understand
  - colpabar 4y ago
    In my experience, moderation can absolutely be harmful to the moderator's own mental health, because it involves removing the posts that aren't allowed. Porn, gore, insane political ramblings... a moderator is responsible for cleaning all that up. A 13 year old should probably not be doing it. https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-57088382 https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-57088382
    - jstarfish 4y ago
      In my experience, it's 13-year-olds that are posting the porn, gore and insane ramblings in the first place. It's also a volunteer gig. If it makes you uncomfortable, stop doing it.
    - linker3000 4y ago
      There's also the occasional direct or thinly-veiled threats of death, doxxing, tyre slashing or public stalking for removing an off-topic post where subby knows better.
  - c7DJTLrn 4y ago
    Yeah but Reddit isn't mum and dad's little cafe. You can think of it as a public newspaper. Anyone can ask for their own page titled whatever they want and curate that content to their own biases as they please. I could have nabbed the r/StableDiffusion page of the news paper and decided to only allow posts that smear StabilityAI.
  - Ajedi32 4y ago
    Sure, but at the same time that's a lot of power to give to a random teenager (or anyone, for that matter). Case in point, I dug into it the drama here a bit more, and it seems like the kid basically just handed control of the entire Stable Diffusion Reddit and Discord communities to the Stability AI corporation, no questions asked. That creates all sorts of conflicts of interest, and it seems to have been done against the wishes of the community itself.
    - bawolff 4y ago
      Its an internet community. If the mod team screws up you make a new one. The stakes are really low.
      - Ajedi32 4y ago
        That true to some extent, but it's also a bit like saying that if Facebook screws up we can just make a new Facebook and move everyone there. It's not that simple; there are huge network effects at play here. Other considerations: - Obviously from a purely technical perspective, making a new subreddit is easier than coding and deploying a new Facebook - It's less friction for a user to subscribe to a new subreddit than to sign up for a new website + The name of a subreddit can contribute to its popularity quite a bit. The community can make a new subreddit, but not a new /r/StableDiffusion
- numpad0 4y ago
  They should be notified. He was not, from his claims.

I'm having difficulty seeing how this comment relates to the post.

by d23 4y ago

I'm having difficulty seeing how this comment relates to the post.

It's relevant because the moderator in the OP is a teenager and I question if kids should be handed the reigns to moderate like this no questions asked.

jstarfish 4y ago
If nobody is being harmed, why not. It's unpaid management experience. Giving kids responsibilities drives maturity.
- permalac 4y ago
  Add /s or people will not understand
- colpabar 4y ago
  In my experience, moderation can absolutely be harmful to the moderator's own mental health, because it involves removing the posts that aren't allowed. Porn, gore, insane political ramblings... a moderator is responsible for cleaning all that up. A 13 year old should probably not be doing it. https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-57088382 https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-57088382
  - jstarfish 4y ago
    In my experience, it's 13-year-olds that are posting the porn, gore and insane ramblings in the first place. It's also a volunteer gig. If it makes you uncomfortable, stop doing it.
  - linker3000 4y ago
    There's also the occasional direct or thinly-veiled threats of death, doxxing, tyre slashing or public stalking for removing an off-topic post where subby knows better.
- c7DJTLrn 4y ago
  Yeah but Reddit isn't mum and dad's little cafe. You can think of it as a public newspaper. Anyone can ask for their own page titled whatever they want and curate that content to their own biases as they please. I could have nabbed the r/StableDiffusion page of the news paper and decided to only allow posts that smear StabilityAI.
- Ajedi32 4y ago
  Sure, but at the same time that's a lot of power to give to a random teenager (or anyone, for that matter). Case in point, I dug into it the drama here a bit more, and it seems like the kid basically just handed control of the entire Stable Diffusion Reddit and Discord communities to the Stability AI corporation, no questions asked. That creates all sorts of conflicts of interest, and it seems to have been done against the wishes of the community itself.
  - bawolff 4y ago
    Its an internet community. If the mod team screws up you make a new one. The stakes are really low.
    - Ajedi32 4y ago
      That true to some extent, but it's also a bit like saying that if Facebook screws up we can just make a new Facebook and move everyone there. It's not that simple; there are huge network effects at play here. Other considerations: - Obviously from a purely technical perspective, making a new subreddit is easier than coding and deploying a new Facebook - It's less friction for a user to subscribe to a new subreddit than to sign up for a new website + The name of a subreddit can contribute to its popularity quite a bit. The community can make a new subreddit, but not a new /r/StableDiffusion
numpad0 4y ago
They should be notified. He was not, from his claims.