It's relevant because the moderator in the OP is a teenager and I question if kids should be handed the reigns to moderate like this no questions asked.

If nobody is being harmed, why not. It's unpaid management experience.

Giving kids responsibilities drives maturity.

Sure, but at the same time that's a lot of power to give to a random teenager (or anyone, for that matter).

Case in point, I dug into it the drama here a bit more, and it seems like the kid basically just handed control of the entire Stable Diffusion Reddit and Discord communities to the Stability AI corporation, no questions asked. That creates all sorts of conflicts of interest, and it seems to have been done against the wishes of the community itself.

Its an internet community. If the mod team screws up you make a new one. The stakes are really low.

That true to some extent, but it's also a bit like saying that if Facebook screws up we can just make a new Facebook and move everyone there. It's not that simple; there are huge network effects at play here.

Other considerations:

- Obviously from a purely technical perspective, making a new subreddit is easier than coding and deploying a new Facebook

- It's less friction for a user to subscribe to a new subreddit than to sign up for a new website

+ The name of a subreddit can contribute to its popularity quite a bit. The community can make a new subreddit, but not a new /r/StableDiffusion

Yeah but Reddit isn't mum and dad's little cafe. You can think of it as a public newspaper. Anyone can ask for their own page titled whatever they want and curate that content to their own biases as they please. I could have nabbed the r/StableDiffusion page of the news paper and decided to only allow posts that smear StabilityAI.

In my experience, moderation can absolutely be harmful to the moderator's own mental health, because it involves removing the posts that aren't allowed. Porn, gore, insane political ramblings... a moderator is responsible for cleaning all that up. A 13 year old should probably not be doing it.

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-57088382

In my experience, it's 13-year-olds that are posting the porn, gore and insane ramblings in the first place.

It's also a volunteer gig. If it makes you uncomfortable, stop doing it.

There's also the occasional direct or thinly-veiled threats of death, doxxing, tyre slashing or public stalking for removing an off-topic post where subby knows better.

Add /s or people will not understand

They should be notified. He was not, from his claims.