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The way reddit admins operate is madly arbitrary. From experience, I am willing to bet that some subreddit admins or moderators get money under the table from i
by jimbohn 2y ago
The way reddit admins operate is madly arbitrary. From experience, I am willing to bet that some subreddit admins or moderators get money under the table from interested parties to look the other way or worse.
- duxup 2y agoI don't know about money, but I did have an experience where it felt like an admin was "protecting" a particularly usual / abusive sub level moderator who seemed to frankly have some serious mental health issues. They'd rant about people stalking them IRL because of their status as a moderator. At first they were just strange questionable stories but later it escalated. Some of their stories sounded like they'd assume anything as being stalked IRL. It got to the point where their stories involved them making vague references to threats to other users. The community was at a loss as far as what to do and no amount of contacting the admins seemed to illicit help, response was always seemingly from the same admin who seemed to sidestep all the worst behaviors. Then somehow some other admin noticed and cleaned it all up... just all perfunctory like that.
- toomuchtodo 2y agoYou're never going to be able change Reddit and it's arbitrary actions, you can only move the discourse elsewhere.
- jimbohn 2y agoIndeed, and I encourage others to do the same. I'd rather pay a couple of bucks to make sure my post lands instead of hoping a funny intermediary will consider the post okay. I've got a post that has been pending review by moderators for six months, with me messaging the mods of said subreddit; never again. I think LLMs could actually improve reddit from this POV.