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Mods on any decently popular subreddits will tell you that they feel limited in what rules they can enforce. Reddit users get used to the sitewide culture, so i
by OfSanguineFire 3y ago
Mods on any decently popular subreddits will tell you that they feel limited in what rules they can enforce. Reddit users get used to the sitewide culture, so if they come onto a subreddit and run up against strange rules, they hassle the mods. I’ve seen whole mobs, drawing in even the sub’s regulars, harangue mods as “gatekeepers”, with few or none standing up for the traditional rules.
Also, I’m not sure if it was true or a conspiracy theory, but I recall once hearing that mods of the most popular subs cannot institute any rules that would reduce “engagement” (and thereby profit), as Reddit would then replace them.
- crtasm 3y agoThat's awful to deal with but isn't banning and blocking them a solution, albeit a time consuming one? I don't imagine such rules on posting would fly with any of the huge subs, no. But there's always space for more small/medium subs.
- OfSanguineFire 3y agoIt's not only time-consuming, it is dispiriting. Moderating is an unpaid job, and it sucks to be the target of abuse, and then to watch all the regulars on your sub attack you as the bad guy, when they side with the newbies that you are "gatekeeping".