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Reddit wouldn't be what it is without mods. Good luck finding people that will work for free without a sense of ownership.
by pier25 3y ago
Reddit wouldn't be what it is without mods.
Good luck finding people that will work for free without a sense of ownership.
- checker659 3y agoI've been on reddit for the majority of its life. Mods are dime a dozen.
- darknavi 3y agoIt really depends on the sub. Some subs have a lot of very specific rules and higher quality bar and then some are just a shit show of sub-specific content. Any community that operates with strict structure is done with dedicated mods and bots (which the mods manage).
- pier25 3y agoMaybe for some subs but not the good ones like r/AskHistorians
- bdw5204 3y agoThere's an endless supply of people who want to moderate forums and are happy to do so for free even if they don't get to set the rules or operate as a dictator. The moderators who consider the lack of "a sense of ownership" a deal breaker are precisely the people you don't want as moderators. They're the ones who are likely interested in that power for the sake of abusing it to serve their own personal agenda rather than the good of the community. It's no different from why we don't want cops to be able to make their own laws (and why laws that are vague enough to give them discretion to act capriciously are bad laws).
- pier25 3y agoThe problem is not the supply of mods, it's the commitment. Lots of people imagine they want to be mods but very few people really want to do the work.
- bheadmaster 3y agoThere is a plenty of power hungry basement dwellers who crave any kind of authority. Mods are literally the worst aspect of Reddit. Good riddance.
- canadaduane 3y agoThis seems unbalanced. You're right, but also overlook the superior quality that good mods bring.
- bheadmaster 3y agoI'm sure Hitler brought a lot of jobs and built a lot of quality infrastructure. Is saying the world is better off without him unbalanced because of that?
- fullshark 3y agoSome tiny fringe subreddits will die, some high visibility subreddits will have literally 100s of people trying to become a mod, including people who are potentially paid by an economic entity to be moderator of that subreddit.