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Re:Reddit is taking over Google by some_random on Wednesday April 17, 2024 @05:44PM (#40070382)
The biggest problem with mods is that normal people do not have the interest nor energy to moderate a subreddit past a certain point, so they end up getting muscled out by weirdos as a sub grows.
Re:Reddit is taking over Google by SkyPuncher on Wednesday April 17, 2024 @07:14PM (#40071103)
I briefly modded a subreddit (before deleted my account in the blackout).

It was neat at fist, but then it basically became people getting uptight about everything. “Your rules don’t say we can’t posted obvious spam”, “you need a transparent process for appealing things”, “mod suck here”.

Like, I don’t care enough to provide a service for a multi-billion dollar company. If you don’t like it, start your own sub.

Re:Reddit is taking over Google by pavel_lishin on Wednesday April 17, 2024 @08:29PM (#40071678)
Yep. Most people don't read the rules, and are then surprised when we remove posts or comments. Some get very angry when we don't allow them to post wildly off topic content, or outright spam. I had to make an alt account after someone started sending death threats.
Re:Reddit is taking over Google by veunes on Saturday April 20, 2024 @08:00PM (#40102087)
> after someone started sending death threats

What strange creatures people are.

Re:Reddit is taking over Google by robswc on Wednesday April 17, 2024 @06:27PM (#40070724)
This is 1000% the reason.

It almost self-selects for the worst type of people. You not only have to have tons of free time, you have to be willing to be "paid" for your work in the small amounts of power you can wield in an online discussion board. In theory if you have a few people they could contribute a bit of time and have it covered... but like you say, the weirdos "out-spend" them on time and muscle their way in.

Re:Reddit is taking over Google by floxy on Wednesday April 17, 2024 @07:03PM (#40071007)
Worst of all, we probably have now immortalized this behavior in-the-before-AI-times archive, so that if you want to have an AI moderator, it will probably try to mimic the broken behavior.
Re:Reddit is taking over Google by Tiktaalik on Wednesday April 17, 2024 @09:55PM (#40072189)
Just like every other political system IRL :)