dealing with tons of subreddit mods (user volunteers) made me appreciate the centralized moderation on other sites. It's not perfect but man at least u get told what rule u violated instead of mods laughing in ur face when you ask what u did wrong so you know not to do it again
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It’s a demanding job but with 27 Subreddits to moderate I don’t always have time for questions. Sometimes the moderators simply know best. 😊
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no, the moderators i've had the displeasure of interacting with are terrible. I try *so hard* to follow rules, im super careful, but often get my posts removed with no explanation. once i asked 'why did u remove post so i can be better' and the mod responded 'back up'
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One thing I didn’t completely expect about that dynamic is that taking away moderation capabilities as a status symbol makes a huge difference
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Facebook and Twitter aren't better in that regard. Without a lawyer you have no way of appeal, and we Europeans only have it thanks to GDPR anyway.
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Although abused, I like the banishment component of Reddit communities. Like imprisonment is an odd concept. If you can’t behave by societal rules it seems more just to remove someone from a society and they must go elsewhere.
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Subreddits for politics/politicans/nations should have oversight though. I've gotten banned from political subreddits for saying something factual, but the mods didn't like it. The mods of some general subjects are tyrants. They got their authority by domain squatting.
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Yeah, or mods raging at you because you formatted your message in a way that some crappy old boomer version of the Reddit site doesn't display properly
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Some mods powertrip so all you might've done is being you. That's why some people shouldn't be mods ever but covet that position dearly.
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