So are automods just roombas?
Pretty much. "better than nothing but will often miss corners and edge cases, and get tripped up by the sock someone left on the floor.’
Mods have always been treated shitty as far back as ye olden BBS and FidoNet days. Always.
Has an automod ever run over a dog turd and spread it all over the floor?
Give it time. I’m FAIRLY certain if that hasn’t happened, it will.
Lots of people say the mods are useless but they are honestly the main reason Reddit spaces were useful at all. It’s easy to not have a mod team when there’s only a few hundred people in a board, but “be nice” doesn’t work with a million users.
Yeah mods were over hated on reddit. Large communities would go to shit without thwm. Sometimes they didn’t always make the right decisions but ultimately large subreddits couldn’t exist without them.
The automod from r/196 (RIP) was u/196_roomba
What incentives could be created to make that janitor work less thankless and more thankful? Their favorite 15" pizza - the toppings being in non-stingy portions - arriving every Friday at supper time by gig-worker delivery for the length of their tenure?
Occasionally, they’re the ones with a knife taped on.
