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This is why Reddit if they want to be a community needs to allow ELECTIONS. Our MPPs and MPs are elected for multi-year terms. Why not require that mods be el
by Sunspark 3y ago
This is why Reddit if they want to be a community needs to allow ELECTIONS.
Our MPPs and MPs are elected for multi-year terms.
Why not require that mods be elected for a 2 year term and that they have to campaign to be re-elected? If they are a hated mod, they won't get re-elected.
Instead we have dictator-for-life Eric Cartman moderating multiple subs.
- ajmurmann 3y agoAre there actually enough people willing to do the mod job? I am only in one sub where everyone hates the mods, but even there I haven't seen any discussion of anyone becoming a mod. Maybe it's because mods delete insurrectionist posts. However, I cannot imagine many people want to do such a thankless and stressful job that pays nothing at all.
- fakedang 3y agoI'm pretty sure mods are paid from somewhere. I remember reading some stuff about 4 or 5 years back, about how the left-wing party of that country (I think it was UK Labour) had taken over mod duties of the country subreddit.
- Sunspark 3y agoIt's not thankless or stressful if all you do is just enforce the overall corporation rules plus perhaps some locally agreed upon additional rules. If people want to post sunsets and nobody is writing you emails to complain about it, then have at it. It's the voice of the people.
- ajmurmann 3y agoIt's all easy till the fuzziness of reality hits with it's ambiguity, anger, etc. Have you read Yishan's famous thread on the topic? https://twitter.com/yishan/status/1586956430162083841 https://twitter.com/yishan/status/1586956430162083841
- Sunspark 3y agoI had not, good thread! It seems to come down to that people need to debate on the same level. Some drunk bum is not going to walk out of a bar and into a classroom and debate a professor. But that's what happens on social media.