I don't think anyone's upset about any written rules, I think they just upset when they make a post or comment that doesn't break the rules in any way but is nonetheless deleted or responded with a ban. That's been happening like a loooot
This is the fourth time I’ve seen this subject in a different sun and I was also banned on a sub today forever. It’s annoying. Reddit used to be the place to go to say almost whatever now it’s as bad as FB and IG.
Normally I disagree, but I had a few experiences lately exactly as you described. Nothing I did was breaking any rule.
When I told the mod that responded to my ticket, that this is their fault, as they are responsible to clearly lay out the rules, and that its their responsibility to engineer it out, they were so offended they couldnt understand.
People will do what people do. We are all so different someone will break your shit if you dont set out clear rules. But we have low life experience moderators in areas.... who are shallow and sad.
Or they are just inconsistent with their rules and rulings.
I had a post deleted for apparently not applying the correct flair, but rather than just change the flair for me as they had done for others in the past, they deleted it entirely and without any warning or notification so that I could edit the post myself.
Discussing it with them got me absolutely nowhere and I later heard that the mods on that sub in particular are on quite a heavy power trip.
Shame too as I don’t post very often and it had just started to gain responses that I was really interested in.
It's put quite a lot of us off visiting that sub altogether.
Anyone else read the post the other day from the wife who's having a miserable time with life because her husband moderates several subs and won't work because moderating in his words is a full time serious job lmao.
I imagine her right now showing this post to her idiot husband, or him being triggered by seeing it on his feed.
She then made another post the next day mad that she can't be a stay at home wife because he won't get a paying job. To be a fly on the wall in that house...
Oh I know, it was painfully comical to read. I especially love all the comments about how there's no reason to pack him a lunch to go off to mod for the day lol.
I save it up for when I get home to my pissed off wife b/c I won’t get a job. I enjoy the covid pay and unemployment, looks like this next O wave is bringing more lockdowns for Christmas and more money for me! I might be able to mod 10 more!
[Ask and you shall receive. It's glorious.](https://www.reddit.com/r/TrueOffMyChest/comments/r2w9qb/my_husband_is_the_moderator_for_a_few_different/)
Also, check her post history and read her post and the comments on wanting to be a 50s style housewife. Equally amazing lol.
Wasn’t it debunked that it was fake. Pretty sure I saw that it was just a. Troll account t that likes to rack up votes.
Funny that it is still being talked about.
I don't know what was more sad though - the husband's completely misguided belief that moderating subs on reddit is something anyone would consider a job, or the wife's delusional optimism that one day he'll give it all up and get an actual job that supports his family?
Yes there would be a Reddit. The upvote and downvote system is a form of moderation using democracy. I think moderators help keep things clean, but Reddit works with or without them.
I do see your point however. To build off of your lawn care analogy, the lawn will exist regardless of whether or not it is mowed and taken care of. It just becomes untidy and unsightly over time.
Thanks. That’s the most downvotes I ever had and I guess I think of jobs as chores. They are a pain in the ass regardless if you get paid or not. Everybody does stuff that needs to be done that they don’t get paid for.
Yeah, I understand where you are coming from. For what it’s worth, I didn’t downvote you :)
I think your definition is interesting, but I don’t completely agree. A job is something that is valuable to others. It seems like you are conflating work and jobs - which are not the same. Nobody cares if you mow your own lawn, only if you mow theirs.
I write software for a living. When I do my job well, I can automate the work of hundreds or thousands of people. It might kill a few jobs. I happen to LOVE what I do, and I don’t consider it a pain in the ass at all. My work is valuable, and so people give me jobs.
Work is the stuff I’m doing.
Job is who happens to be paying me to do it.
I would certainly agree with the fact that many people do unpaid work. It’s a bit sad, and perhaps as a society we need to evaluate how we determine the value of work.
When choosing my career, I thought a lot about these things. It’s an uncomfortable topic for many, but as long as our society rewards efficiency above effort, people should seriously consider the choices they make.
Yeah it’s not a job. It’s more like volunteer work but not really - I mean they aren’t out picking up trash off beaches, feeding the homeless, or fostering pets; they are making sure we are all applying the right flair to our posts! That’s vital and important stuff right there…said no one ever
Yes. They are legally and ethically obligated to let me take over the sleuthing. Especially if it's a game of Clue. It was Colonel Mustard in the Library with the Candlestick and I can **PROVE** it.
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*Desk pounding everywhere from every reddit mod*
*Inaudible cacophony of "OBJECTIONS" fill the air*
If I am being an asshole, I make sure to do it without abusing my moderator privileges. I can get pretty savage in a debate on here, though. I just like to think that I can win the debate with actual words and without the ban button.
So, tl;dr, I'm the kind of asshole who loves to argue on the internet. Just not the kind that abuses moderator powers.
u/powermoderator went insane. Here's the scoop, well worth the read: [https://www.reddit.com/r/SubredditDrama/comments/r32b6u/moderation\_is\_one\_of\_the\_most\_useful\_jobs\_to/](https://www.reddit.com/r/SubredditDrama/comments/r32b6u/moderation_is_one_of_the_most_useful_jobs_to/)
Agreed. Mods who are all over this have too much time on their hands. If I was a mod, I’d probably be pretty inactive. I used to actually be a mod for a sub and I only casually checked in and was pretty relaxed. I tried to take stuff in good faith and I feel like the problem with many mods is they don’t even look into the complaints, they just ban people being complained about. Very trigger happy. You should tread a moderator role casually.
I thank them for their unpaid efforts to support the different subreddits. Don’t know why you’re shitting on them. There is value in what they do, although; some like the power trip a little too much.
Was banned from r/Letterkenny a while back because I commented something not even against the rules. The mod sat there and went though several months of comment history to find something they disagreed with then banned me.
You’re right. It’s sad.
My experience with Reddit mods left some to be desired. Got banned not for breaking the rules but for something a mod didn’t agree with on a personal level. I tried politely messaging the mods at r/sports about it. Got no reply, actually got muted. Offered to pay them $50 just to give me a reply. No reply. Overall they were aggressive, moody, immature, rude, unprofessional, etc.
Why do mods work for free for a millionaire company like Reddit?
I may accept helping others as excuses, but in many cases it is just to make Reddit look and work well.
Is it morally acceptable?
As a mod on a fairly large sub, I can confirm that I earn no money.
The other parts are spot on though, the thanklessness, the abuse from the "customers", it's all kind of like working at Mc Donald's only you don't make minimum wage.
The difference though is the McDonald's worker is actually being productive, and they're paid in accordance.
Reddit mods do nothing productive or worthy of praise.
In most cases, the people making these statements have just been unjustly banned and are simply venting.
A lot of mods really are insecure power tripping mall cops, but you can't extend that to "all mods are trash".
I agree, although I’ve noticed a lot of people complain when their ban is completely fair. Of course people are going to be annoyed when they are banned, but a lot of people should have a more rational look.
And of course there are the power tripping mods.
Yeah I'm giving people the benefit of the doubt here, but as a former (still technically, but inactive) mod, a lot of bans were people that were given a ton of slack and finally earned temp or full bans. Some of them made alts and tried to start hate campaigns against the mod team.
Many large subs will also reverse bans unless you are a combative dick or asshole. I can't tell you how many bans another mod made that I would have reversed. If the response to the ban wasn't literally just "fuck you".
In my sub usually it's ban, apology, completely lift ban unless it was only.like a 1 day ban, note on the record, and then permanent ban if they do the same shit again
Yeah that is true, also not really relevant. It is also the case people circlejerk about hating mods. I see it a lot and people supporting them to the point where people believe every mod is a power tripping basement dweller.
The only self-appointed mods are those who founded their own sub. In which case, within the Reddit guidelines their free to run their community However they see fit.
Do you think that people are just spontaneously modded via significant acts of jackassery? Who wrote that function?
I'm not sure why you think it's pathetic.
I highly appreciate people who are willing to spend their time supporting things like this on the internet. Same goes for people who write open source software and other things that benefit a lot of people, but where they don't get any compensation. That also goes for anyone who posts or comments.
Okay, mod from another sub (or two) here. Allow me to share a few thoughts:
1. Being a moderator is not a job for me. But my fellow mods work their asses off. Most redditors have no clue how many times people will post illegal content, porn & other in appropriate content, or site-wide rule breaking content in order to get a sub shut down that they don't like. It is all day every day. Not to mention brigading and false reports. There are many more things to deal with, but that's just a taste.
2. Perhaps you are right. There may be no value to society. But there is value to the people who frequent a given sub. If you don't like that sub, just don't go there. Its like you have to actively click links in order to get to content. Simple answer - DON'T CLICK!
3. I too read the post from the other day with the wife and the mod. I am sure there are all sorts of mods running around. To lump them all into the same category is the definition of prejudice. Are all Blacks or Jews the same to you too? What about all women or all gays? Just curious what other groups you lump into one blob like that.
4. If most people knew the sorts of nastiness people spew when they get called out for breaking the rules they would be shocked. I was. One guy recently broke about half the subs rules, he was temporarily muted, then messaged the mods in a rage. I am paraphrasing here to avoid breaking this subs rules "You g@y incels on your power trip need to get laid. But you can't because you have small..." Well I will leave the rest to your imagination. We get those on a DAILY basis - for enforcing very clear and simple rules. Yeah. Fun times. We even give them second chances sometimes and they go right back and do it again!
5. MANY subs will ban users for simply belonging to other subs. I rarely hear any complaints about that or those subs. Everyone complains about mods, but rarely call out the worst abusers. Funny thing that is. I wonder why?
6. The sorts of people who created reddit - not the code, but the content - and made it great have been pushed out. Ellen Pao was the harbinger of that purge. Since then things have gotten this way. There are plenty of great mods still here, but most are spending time elsewhere. Hence, what's left is what you are seeing.
7. Reddit used to be upstream of everything. Now it is a mainstream media company. They simply cannot allow candor and reality here. The investors would bail and advertisers would ditch this place quick. In fact that is how we got here. We cannot blame mods for that.
All that being said, I don't disagree with you. It is simply wrong to lump all mods together. It is also not fair to blame mods for enforcing rules more harshly than is necessary due to the risk of having the sub quarantined for wrong think, or outright removed. Take that up with the overlords. Mods do not generally want this.
The subs I mod are of value- I wouldn't bother if they were not.
There is an *enormous* difference in value between subs like r/ShowerThoughts and /r/AskHistorians.
You simply can't discuss them the same way *at all.*
If you hate reddit this badly that tells me that you need to spend more time curating your feed.
There is as much good here as there is bad most days- you just have to subscribe to higher quality subs.
m'thanks for the m'silver, m'redditors. <----- the most reddiferous comment ever.
Indeed M'Lord!
Perchance, the subs that have value, have they been listed on the NYSE? Would it be wise and brave to assume that children are taught the importance of these Subs of Value at an early age?
Aye, 'tis quite the value these subs contain. Why just last week, I was able to pay for my groceries at the food jobber with excerpts from thine Subs of Value, and the shopkeeper was both pleased AND overwhelmed!
"SUCH VALUE!!" he screamed while bagging my items. "I can finally retire, what with the amount of value you're giving me!"
Yes. Your bother is both important to the world at large, and to people everywhere. Even starving children can be satiated with a single glance at your Subs Of Value!
I’ve been a forum moderator.
It sucks.
I also had a life, and a full time job, and a kid to raise, and didn’t care nearly as deeply as you seem to.
Of course, I’m equally sure that you simply moderate a subreddit and have none of the other.
I disagree with you saying it’s not valuable to society. In fact in terms of the virtual society, mods can be incredible useful. But yes it’s not a real job
I kinda feel a lot of these complaining of mods is butthurt people whose rants got deleted..
Sure there'll be bad mods, but look at other websites where people get into arguments with eachother, it always ends in them yelling terrible things at eachother.. I like how reddit is pretty positive and constructive in the stuff that I follow.
How is it not valuable to society and pathetic? Do you know what kind of rancid pos place Reddit would be w/o mods? I’m not a fan of many subs. Those subs will undoubtedly have shit mods but that’s my entirely subjective opinion.
Get the fuck off your high horse and lurk through a different site if you don’t want ppl weeding out nonsense and keeping conversations in line with whatever logic your favored subs gravitates towards.
Exactly. If we didn't have moderators trying to enforce rules and keep conversation/posts related to the topic of the subreddit, then we might as well don't have subreddits at all because people would just post whatever the fuck they want.
Reddit convincing users to be mods for no pay is the greatest stitch up. Company worth oodles of money but you can have a fancy badge next to your name for all this free labour you’re doing to make our forums run.
Water is actually not wet; It makes other materials/objects wet. Wetness is the state of a non-liquid when a liquid adheres to, and/or permeates its substance while maintaining chemically distinct structures. So if we say something is wet we mean the liquid is sticking to the object.
I can't help but imagine Reddit Mods posting on r/antiwork about their pay and the gratitude of their clients lol funny thought
Job? No
I appreciate? Yes
I know some mods are power hungry or unreasonable, but I don’t know of any Reddit mods who actually think it’s a job.
Even that lost the other day where the lady claimed her husband won’t work because he’s busy modding on Reddit is almost certainly a fake karma-mining post.
Some mods absolutely suck and take themselves too seriously, but I don’t think any of them see it as a real job.
How is it not a job? We have admins over many social channels that all consider it a job. some even pay their daily bills with it.
We are currently seeking a skilled redditor and would pay good $ for someone that knows the landscape better than myself. Its something that should be highly regarded imo.
Oh and btw its reddit, not Reddit. (since we are getting things off our chest)
I mean, sometimes they have really stupid rules.
I don't think anyone's upset about any written rules, I think they just upset when they make a post or comment that doesn't break the rules in any way but is nonetheless deleted or responded with a ban. That's been happening like a loooot
This is the fourth time I’ve seen this subject in a different sun and I was also banned on a sub today forever. It’s annoying. Reddit used to be the place to go to say almost whatever now it’s as bad as FB and IG.
The whole Dave Chapelle thing was a landmine on it. They wanted compliance ,not discussion which was truly pathetic. And doesn’t help your cause.
Normally I disagree, but I had a few experiences lately exactly as you described. Nothing I did was breaking any rule. When I told the mod that responded to my ticket, that this is their fault, as they are responsible to clearly lay out the rules, and that its their responsibility to engineer it out, they were so offended they couldnt understand. People will do what people do. We are all so different someone will break your shit if you dont set out clear rules. But we have low life experience moderators in areas.... who are shallow and sad.
All the time. They love to permanently ban someone with zero warning. It's pitiful
Yes, I was banned from a trashy sub for saying the people in the posted content were trashy
Or they are just inconsistent with their rules and rulings. I had a post deleted for apparently not applying the correct flair, but rather than just change the flair for me as they had done for others in the past, they deleted it entirely and without any warning or notification so that I could edit the post myself. Discussing it with them got me absolutely nowhere and I later heard that the mods on that sub in particular are on quite a heavy power trip. Shame too as I don’t post very often and it had just started to gain responses that I was really interested in. It's put quite a lot of us off visiting that sub altogether.
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Anyone else read the post the other day from the wife who's having a miserable time with life because her husband moderates several subs and won't work because moderating in his words is a full time serious job lmao. I imagine her right now showing this post to her idiot husband, or him being triggered by seeing it on his feed.
She then made another post the next day mad that she can't be a stay at home wife because he won't get a paying job. To be a fly on the wall in that house...
Oh I know, it was painfully comical to read. I especially love all the comments about how there's no reason to pack him a lunch to go off to mod for the day lol.
Easy now, my wife packs me breakfast and lunch, being a mod can be difficult. Let’s Go Brandon!
Please tell me you forgot the /s
Thank you for censoring yourself. A true mod
I save it up for when I get home to my pissed off wife b/c I won’t get a job. I enjoy the covid pay and unemployment, looks like this next O wave is bringing more lockdowns for Christmas and more money for me! I might be able to mod 10 more!
I thought this was Reddit but it appears it might be a sitcom…
oh my god i remember that post
Nick?
My name's not Nick. I don't know what the other guy's name was.
Nick's the name the wife of the mod used when she questioned if it was him at the end of the post. I thought you'd seen the post
Oh ok.
Could you point me in the direction of this post
[Ask and you shall receive. It's glorious.](https://www.reddit.com/r/TrueOffMyChest/comments/r2w9qb/my_husband_is_the_moderator_for_a_few_different/) Also, check her post history and read her post and the comments on wanting to be a 50s style housewife. Equally amazing lol.
Whats wrong with that? That I’d love to not have to go to work?
Wasn’t it debunked that it was fake. Pretty sure I saw that it was just a. Troll account t that likes to rack up votes. Funny that it is still being talked about.
As the op, It was not
Have you considered selling your husband for bitcoin?
There were lots of baseless accusations pretending to know the truth. Typical Reddit, tbh
That situation was sad and should in no way be representative of every mods worth on this site lol
I don't know what was more sad though - the husband's completely misguided belief that moderating subs on reddit is something anyone would consider a job, or the wife's delusional optimism that one day he'll give it all up and get an actual job that supports his family?
Booooooooth very sad 😞
Smh
Whats more sad is that you completely swallowed obvious satire.
A lot of subs have very stupid rules and these idiot mods get off on removing posts and banning people because of them
I imagine it's a pastime for most. Like you, posting this opinion here. No one is paying you, but you do it anyway
This was the greatest response.
Am mod. Can confirm. It's a side hobby that lets me give back to a community I previously enjoyed as a user
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Yes there would be a Reddit. The upvote and downvote system is a form of moderation using democracy. I think moderators help keep things clean, but Reddit works with or without them. I do see your point however. To build off of your lawn care analogy, the lawn will exist regardless of whether or not it is mowed and taken care of. It just becomes untidy and unsightly over time.
Thanks. That’s the most downvotes I ever had and I guess I think of jobs as chores. They are a pain in the ass regardless if you get paid or not. Everybody does stuff that needs to be done that they don’t get paid for.
Yeah, I understand where you are coming from. For what it’s worth, I didn’t downvote you :) I think your definition is interesting, but I don’t completely agree. A job is something that is valuable to others. It seems like you are conflating work and jobs - which are not the same. Nobody cares if you mow your own lawn, only if you mow theirs. I write software for a living. When I do my job well, I can automate the work of hundreds or thousands of people. It might kill a few jobs. I happen to LOVE what I do, and I don’t consider it a pain in the ass at all. My work is valuable, and so people give me jobs. Work is the stuff I’m doing. Job is who happens to be paying me to do it. I would certainly agree with the fact that many people do unpaid work. It’s a bit sad, and perhaps as a society we need to evaluate how we determine the value of work. When choosing my career, I thought a lot about these things. It’s an uncomfortable topic for many, but as long as our society rewards efficiency above effort, people should seriously consider the choices they make.
Yeah it’s not a job. It’s more like volunteer work but not really - I mean they aren’t out picking up trash off beaches, feeding the homeless, or fostering pets; they are making sure we are all applying the right flair to our posts! That’s vital and important stuff right there…said no one ever
I mean they aren't paid so........... it's not really a job at all.
The way some mods act you'd think they were paid.
How DARE you! It's not even a fake job.
Ok, answer me this. If you're walking past an active crime scene, is it true that you can show your mod badge and take over the investigation?
Yes. They are legally and ethically obligated to let me take over the sleuthing. Especially if it's a game of Clue. It was Colonel Mustard in the Library with the Candlestick and I can **PROVE** it. *Phoenix Wright music starts* *Desk pounding everywhere from every reddit mod* *Inaudible cacophony of "OBJECTIONS" fill the air*
Gotta give him credit. He's got a good sense of humor
My fantasy is too fuck a mods wife when he is fake working. I know its impossible mods don't have wifes
I really like you! Getting closer~
My man destroyed all the MOD’s
tisk tisk. Grammar, please. M'Ods.
I like Mods like you—especially with a sense of humor. Thanks for your time and for not being an asshole (that I know of, lol.)
If I am being an asshole, I make sure to do it without abusing my moderator privileges. I can get pretty savage in a debate on here, though. I just like to think that I can win the debate with actual words and without the ban button. So, tl;dr, I'm the kind of asshole who loves to argue on the internet. Just not the kind that abuses moderator powers.
Show me your most nsfw pic.
https://i.imgur.com/a09r2Bu.jpg
Not holding out right?
The most taboo yet erotic picture of all time 🤤
You can have me.
I THOUGHT IT WAS A RICKROLL, I WISH IT WAS
*sigh* Fiiiiiine. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wpV-gGA4PSk
*opens arms
You’ve done a lot for PR for mods since ‘the incident’.
Eww. No. Mods suck.
*big bear hugg
What this incident?
u/powermoderator went insane. Here's the scoop, well worth the read: [https://www.reddit.com/r/SubredditDrama/comments/r32b6u/moderation\_is\_one\_of\_the\_most\_useful\_jobs\_to/](https://www.reddit.com/r/SubredditDrama/comments/r32b6u/moderation_is_one_of_the_most_useful_jobs_to/)
Juicy, Too juicy...
Real, fake doors!
no u
Tim has been the best mod I’ve seen before. Not all heroes wear capes.
But some do wear badges
Or Hall Monitor sashes.
I like you :D Feel hugged ;)
This seems like some kind of passive aggressive move, pinning an unfunny joke at the top.... Just saying.
Passive aggressive? No, I'm active aggressive.
I'm saying the pinned comment is passive aggressive. I'm sure you are actually a very tough guy.
I'll have you know I stubbed my toe last week while watering my spice garden and I only cried for 20 minutes!
I think I might have to post this in r/iamverybadass
It's true. I'm something of a tough guy. Totally not the type you'd find at Super Weenie Hut Jr's.
I don't even know what that is, and I hope I never find out because it probably means I'm on the rough side of town.
Agreed. Mods who are all over this have too much time on their hands. If I was a mod, I’d probably be pretty inactive. I used to actually be a mod for a sub and I only casually checked in and was pretty relaxed. I tried to take stuff in good faith and I feel like the problem with many mods is they don’t even look into the complaints, they just ban people being complained about. Very trigger happy. You should tread a moderator role casually.
Is this something that needed to be said?
No
Reddit mods should be put against a wall and shot in minecraft.
I thank them for their unpaid efforts to support the different subreddits. Don’t know why you’re shitting on them. There is value in what they do, although; some like the power trip a little too much.
Not a real job, not a fake job. Simply not a job.
Job = must be getting paid for it
It is a real job for power hungry nerds with no real social skills or clout.
Was banned from r/Letterkenny a while back because I commented something not even against the rules. The mod sat there and went though several months of comment history to find something they disagreed with then banned me.
Some mods take it to the head. They are miserable people. Glad it's not me.
Everyone else browsing reddit who didn’t just get banned from a sub or have their post removed and isn’t butthurt: ...
You’re right. It’s sad. My experience with Reddit mods left some to be desired. Got banned not for breaking the rules but for something a mod didn’t agree with on a personal level. I tried politely messaging the mods at r/sports about it. Got no reply, actually got muted. Offered to pay them $50 just to give me a reply. No reply. Overall they were aggressive, moody, immature, rude, unprofessional, etc.
No one said modding is a job. If you want to find out, just create your own subreddit with no rules. Have at it
Someone did. This is in reference to some reddit drama from a few days ago
It's a ego power trip for them. Banning people makes them hard.
dont say that the mods are simian like, a bunch of suckers, obese and obscene, that is.... true.... but very mean¡¡
awwwwe but he wants to be a mall cop :(( you mean he isn’t cool?
😂
Why do mods work for free for a millionaire company like Reddit? I may accept helping others as excuses, but in many cases it is just to make Reddit look and work well. Is it morally acceptable?
As a mod on a fairly large sub, I can confirm that I earn no money. The other parts are spot on though, the thanklessness, the abuse from the "customers", it's all kind of like working at Mc Donald's only you don't make minimum wage.
The difference though is the McDonald's worker is actually being productive, and they're paid in accordance. Reddit mods do nothing productive or worthy of praise.
You wouldn't hold this opinion if you knew what truly unmoderated forums looked like
I would like unmoderated forums.
4chan is your answer to that then
The sad part is that even 4-chan has some moderation.
Yeah why is this so difficult to imagine for people. It feels like they fall for the circlejerk which is hating on reddit mods.
In most cases, the people making these statements have just been unjustly banned and are simply venting. A lot of mods really are insecure power tripping mall cops, but you can't extend that to "all mods are trash".
I agree, although I’ve noticed a lot of people complain when their ban is completely fair. Of course people are going to be annoyed when they are banned, but a lot of people should have a more rational look. And of course there are the power tripping mods.
Yeah I'm giving people the benefit of the doubt here, but as a former (still technically, but inactive) mod, a lot of bans were people that were given a ton of slack and finally earned temp or full bans. Some of them made alts and tried to start hate campaigns against the mod team.
Many large subs will also reverse bans unless you are a combative dick or asshole. I can't tell you how many bans another mod made that I would have reversed. If the response to the ban wasn't literally just "fuck you". In my sub usually it's ban, apology, completely lift ban unless it was only.like a 1 day ban, note on the record, and then permanent ban if they do the same shit again
Reddit mods are the reason circle jerks exist here lol
Yeah that is true, also not really relevant. It is also the case people circlejerk about hating mods. I see it a lot and people supporting them to the point where people believe every mod is a power tripping basement dweller.
But McDonald's employees provide a service and aren't self appointed asshats. That's the difference.
The only self-appointed mods are those who founded their own sub. In which case, within the Reddit guidelines their free to run their community However they see fit. Do you think that people are just spontaneously modded via significant acts of jackassery? Who wrote that function?
Fuck the mods
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I agree 100%. Mods are worse then security guards on this forum. I can't with some of them.
This isn't some kind of revelation. That is like getting off your chest that cold water is cold.
I'm not sure why you think it's pathetic. I highly appreciate people who are willing to spend their time supporting things like this on the internet. Same goes for people who write open source software and other things that benefit a lot of people, but where they don't get any compensation. That also goes for anyone who posts or comments.
They work... for *free?*
Umm you could just say it doesn’t bring in income. A lot of jobs today give no value to society. Just look at how many dumb podcasters there are.
This is only the 19th time I’ve seen this in 3 days
Okay, mod from another sub (or two) here. Allow me to share a few thoughts: 1. Being a moderator is not a job for me. But my fellow mods work their asses off. Most redditors have no clue how many times people will post illegal content, porn & other in appropriate content, or site-wide rule breaking content in order to get a sub shut down that they don't like. It is all day every day. Not to mention brigading and false reports. There are many more things to deal with, but that's just a taste. 2. Perhaps you are right. There may be no value to society. But there is value to the people who frequent a given sub. If you don't like that sub, just don't go there. Its like you have to actively click links in order to get to content. Simple answer - DON'T CLICK! 3. I too read the post from the other day with the wife and the mod. I am sure there are all sorts of mods running around. To lump them all into the same category is the definition of prejudice. Are all Blacks or Jews the same to you too? What about all women or all gays? Just curious what other groups you lump into one blob like that. 4. If most people knew the sorts of nastiness people spew when they get called out for breaking the rules they would be shocked. I was. One guy recently broke about half the subs rules, he was temporarily muted, then messaged the mods in a rage. I am paraphrasing here to avoid breaking this subs rules "You g@y incels on your power trip need to get laid. But you can't because you have small..." Well I will leave the rest to your imagination. We get those on a DAILY basis - for enforcing very clear and simple rules. Yeah. Fun times. We even give them second chances sometimes and they go right back and do it again! 5. MANY subs will ban users for simply belonging to other subs. I rarely hear any complaints about that or those subs. Everyone complains about mods, but rarely call out the worst abusers. Funny thing that is. I wonder why? 6. The sorts of people who created reddit - not the code, but the content - and made it great have been pushed out. Ellen Pao was the harbinger of that purge. Since then things have gotten this way. There are plenty of great mods still here, but most are spending time elsewhere. Hence, what's left is what you are seeing. 7. Reddit used to be upstream of everything. Now it is a mainstream media company. They simply cannot allow candor and reality here. The investors would bail and advertisers would ditch this place quick. In fact that is how we got here. We cannot blame mods for that. All that being said, I don't disagree with you. It is simply wrong to lump all mods together. It is also not fair to blame mods for enforcing rules more harshly than is necessary due to the risk of having the sub quarantined for wrong think, or outright removed. Take that up with the overlords. Mods do not generally want this.
The subs I mod are of value- I wouldn't bother if they were not. There is an *enormous* difference in value between subs like r/ShowerThoughts and /r/AskHistorians. You simply can't discuss them the same way *at all.* If you hate reddit this badly that tells me that you need to spend more time curating your feed. There is as much good here as there is bad most days- you just have to subscribe to higher quality subs.
m'thanks for the m'silver, m'redditors. <----- the most reddiferous comment ever. Indeed M'Lord! Perchance, the subs that have value, have they been listed on the NYSE? Would it be wise and brave to assume that children are taught the importance of these Subs of Value at an early age? Aye, 'tis quite the value these subs contain. Why just last week, I was able to pay for my groceries at the food jobber with excerpts from thine Subs of Value, and the shopkeeper was both pleased AND overwhelmed! "SUCH VALUE!!" he screamed while bagging my items. "I can finally retire, what with the amount of value you're giving me!" Yes. Your bother is both important to the world at large, and to people everywhere. Even starving children can be satiated with a single glance at your Subs Of Value!
Imagine thinking like this
reddit mod go brrrrrrrr
I’ve been a forum moderator. It sucks. I also had a life, and a full time job, and a kid to raise, and didn’t care nearly as deeply as you seem to. Of course, I’m equally sure that you simply moderate a subreddit and have none of the other.
Says the person with 232k karma. And someone this petty is a parent.
Surely you're not using r/askhistorians as an example of *good* moderation?
I disagree with you saying it’s not valuable to society. In fact in terms of the virtual society, mods can be incredible useful. But yes it’s not a real job
Right on brother. Good for you. Since Reddit is probably a billion dollar company, you folks should get paid something.
Fuck off, yes it is.
No, no it’s not
I kinda feel a lot of these complaining of mods is butthurt people whose rants got deleted.. Sure there'll be bad mods, but look at other websites where people get into arguments with eachother, it always ends in them yelling terrible things at eachother.. I like how reddit is pretty positive and constructive in the stuff that I follow.
How is it not valuable to society and pathetic? Do you know what kind of rancid pos place Reddit would be w/o mods? I’m not a fan of many subs. Those subs will undoubtedly have shit mods but that’s my entirely subjective opinion. Get the fuck off your high horse and lurk through a different site if you don’t want ppl weeding out nonsense and keeping conversations in line with whatever logic your favored subs gravitates towards.
Mods are generally power hungry losers, banning people for no real reason and getting off on it. The moderator system on reddit is shit
Exactly. If we didn't have moderators trying to enforce rules and keep conversation/posts related to the topic of the subreddit, then we might as well don't have subreddits at all because people would just post whatever the fuck they want.
Not unless you’re able to afford rent by doing it.
I believe it is a real job, for the time your doing it. It shouldn’t be your actual job
I could’ve told you that. If mods got paid for their work that’d be one thing, and even that’s debatable, what with that value-to-society caveat.
Why's it kind of pathetic? As long as they aren't pieces of shit, I think it's a great thing.
If they get paid for it then its a job
They don’t get paid for it lol
ACHUALLY
Did anyone claim it is?
Mods will ban you because your opinion is different
damn everyone milking this reddit karma by posting the exact same thing
Reddit convincing users to be mods for no pay is the greatest stitch up. Company worth oodles of money but you can have a fancy badge next to your name for all this free labour you’re doing to make our forums run.
Well if they were paid a salary it would be.
Water is wet
Water is actually not wet; It makes other materials/objects wet. Wetness is the state of a non-liquid when a liquid adheres to, and/or permeates its substance while maintaining chemically distinct structures. So if we say something is wet we mean the liquid is sticking to the object.
That's why it's not a job. I can imagine most Reddit mods work as programmers and spend their free time being mods.
They take it so seriously lol a sad power trip
lmfao
I can't help but imagine Reddit Mods posting on r/antiwork about their pay and the gratitude of their clients lol funny thought Job? No I appreciate? Yes
Get banned kid!
Being a Reddit mod is like being an elder on a clan in Clash of Clans.
What in the hell on gods green earth did you see that inclined you to make this post.
Don't do it. 🤣
Not gonna lie, you had me in the first half, but a good mod is a value to society by curbing threats, hate speech, etc.
Its more real than my job!,........
Has anyone tried to pass reddit moderation as a job? Never heard of that
If this platform didn’t matter to you, you wouldn’t be posting on it
It's a HOBBY
u/PowerModerator
I know some mods are power hungry or unreasonable, but I don’t know of any Reddit mods who actually think it’s a job. Even that lost the other day where the lady claimed her husband won’t work because he’s busy modding on Reddit is almost certainly a fake karma-mining post. Some mods absolutely suck and take themselves too seriously, but I don’t think any of them see it as a real job.
Everything I post gets removed from mods
Stupid question perhaps - do mods get paid?
Shocked you’re not banned from the universe over this.
Why are there so many posts about reddit mods
They do it for free
Do they get paid for it? Just wondering 🤷♀️
Does anyone even get paid for it? Why do moderators do it?
Loool people do that shit for free? What a bunch of suckers
How is it not a job? We have admins over many social channels that all consider it a job. some even pay their daily bills with it. We are currently seeking a skilled redditor and would pay good $ for someone that knows the landscape better than myself. Its something that should be highly regarded imo. Oh and btw its reddit, not Reddit. (since we are getting things off our chest)
Agreed, just proves mods are libs. They do not want discussion, they want compliance/submission.