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with respect, you are missing the whole point of this issue! It isn't about doing X but about how you do X. If Victoria had done her job with condescension tow
by lingben 11y ago
with respect, you are missing the whole point of this issue! It isn't about doing X but about how you do X.
If Victoria had done her job with condescension towards mods, if she had been haughty in her communications, arbitrary and non-transparent in her decision making, etc. then you can bet your bottom dollar that she would not have been so valued by the mods and the wider community.
This isn't about making 'difficult decisions' but about how they are made, communicated and implemented.
That is why I added the bee analogy in my previous comment.
- intended 11y agoThat's incorrect. I'm one of the "nicer" mods on my subreddit because I'm polite and very careful and careful in how I construct my responses to actions. But at the end of the day I'm also liked because I'm not the most active mod. The very act of exerting power over another user, especially someone who has never stopped to think about the rules or the site history, results in resentment. The better your mod team is at being able to implement the rules, the more friction there will be. People will also come out to complain more than compliment. This results in distancing from the community, just because of how painful it can be. Good tools to moderate create more ways to censor people, track them, decide what words are ok and others which are not. In short, Victoria is far removed from the kind of things which make people hate admins.