Modus Redditus upsets some janny sympathizers

Hmmmmm good execution on the animation, but the moderator should either be incredibly fat or look like a holocaust victim.

Can we get him here and grace us with a bardfinn piece. Think of all the dramacoin he would receive

Reddit mods are shit. They banned me from all the defaults because of "personal attacks". How can you attack someone over the Internet? Like I can't even see them let alone punch them.

Lame.

You get to a point where you gotta think “there’s no way that ban evasion is not an intentional part of Reddit’s design”.

I believe I’m about to be downvoted here because I’m running counter to a heavy circlejerk, but frick it: this post is honestly not cool.

Mods can be complete buttholes sometimes, just as well as users (and any human) can. But we shouldn’t forget at the end of the day the vast majority of them are silent hobbyist volunteers who keep to themselves and put in some time of their regular days to mod communities based on their actual personal interests, for no other reason than because they want to help provide a good space for people to engage with a subject they’re passionate about.

For each power-hungry idiot mod, there are probably, I don’t know, 100?? completely fair and fine mods volunteering their time to dozens of really small subreddits you never knew existed. It’s not fair to shit on 101 people because one of them is a piece of crap and they happen to share the same kind of role in this site.

By all means mock and poke fun (and harshly criticize when needed) specific moderators or the moderation teams of specific subreddits who deserve it. But it’s not cool to frame all moderators as being power-hungry sad no-lifers like this just because of the salient minority of power-hungry mods in the more popular subreddits. That’s how you get the good people to stop wanting to moderate anything, and the end result is a self-fulfilling prophecy: everybody says all Reddit mods are shitty people, causing only shitty people to want to be mods in the first place, making Reddit as a whole a lot less welcoming.

This process is almost certainly already happening to a large extent, and this kind of post only furthers the decline of Reddit we’ve all been witnessing.

If you want better moderators on this site, the constructive way to go about this is to support mods, advocate for better tools and moderation processes for them, and let Reddit the company know they should be more valued. That’s how you get better mods. Devaluing all of them like this will only push the good ones out.

Either that, or apply yourself to be a mod on a community you enjoy. It shouldn’t be hard to do a better job than the bad mods you’re complaining about.

(And PS, before you go looking at my profile to see if I am a mod, I’ll save you a minute: I help mod r/TheWitness, a really small subreddit for my personal favorite game of all time. I don’t remember the last time I took a mod action except for marking posts as spoilers that need the flair. I certainly never banned anyone.)

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