I started a sub that had 400k users and was around for 10 years. /r/functionalprint
After I made it read only, admins they just up and gave it to some rando mod that had no experience in that sub at all.
So it doesn’t surprise me the mods of a lot of subs have absolutely NO experience in the subs they are modding.Screw Reddit.
There are a ton of dangerous 3D printing happening. Especially people doing shit that’s pressurized.
It’s almost like moderators were highly skilled workers in a very, very small niche. It’s as if a company that sold highly specialized training for prenatal brain surgeons, started a campaign to discredit every single prenatal brain surgeon in the world and force them all to lose their jobs, then attempted to fill in every one of those jobs with middle school theater kids.
Are… are you a prenatal brain surgeon?
moderators were highly skilled workers in a very, very small niche.
Let’s not pivot 180 degrees here. Mods were not the chosen ones by any means. In fact some other breaches of trust that Reddit plagued its users with were specifically because of how much power mods had and how they abused those powers. Maybe some mods were actually knowledgeable about the field, but there isn’t really any reason to extrapolate.
Sorry did you forget the /s?
Nah, that’s a former reddit mod
No, I was never a Reddit mod. My first modding experience is at sh.itjust.works. I was making a analogy, which I’ll admit was a bit strained, but I stand by it. The analogy was not intended to imply that Reddit mods were the equivalent of surgeons, it was intended to compare a set of specialists to another set of specialists and what happens when an organization forces generalists (above-mentioned theater kids) into the tasks of specialists. Things always enshittify. All of the mods I’ve interacted with in Lemmy instances and on Reddit have been specialists, in terms of professional, ethical management of content and an exceptional ability to manage “soft” power. I have no motive to flatter any mod anywhere, this is what I’ve observed. If you don’t agree with the observation, fair enough, but those types of mods are characteristic of the communities in which I choose to spend time. Your mileage may vary, but if you find mods to be otherwise, I would question your chosen community first, as the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree. A wise man used to say to me, “If you look around and every room you’re in is full of assholes, it’s you. You’re the asshole.”
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Hope it’s something a little stronger than PLA: If you’re going to go to the trouble of making something might as well make it to last.
Pla+ is actually the most used filament for printed guns afaik.
PLA+ is a little stronger than PLA.
The effort to glorify mods since Reddits demise is risible.
Mods who made arbitrary decisions on content and bans, suddenly find themselves subject to arbitrary decisions and bans.
Cry me a fucking river.
Mods>Gods
Yeah, I have no sympathy for any mods. All my experiences have been negative. Even when trying to help communities by reporting spam or asking mods what they are doing about it, I would just get a permaban and muted.
Maybe if more of them did an effort to actually moderate the moderators, have subs work like democracies, actually ban bots then maybe just maybe more users would have cared about them.
we hate that posts are removed for stupid reasons on reddit so we made lemmy and now we celebrate that posts aren’t removed from reddit for stupid reasons.
god I hate redditors.
I just don’t know how I feel about the whole reddit mod situation in the context of this article.
On one hand, it does seem like the removal of moderators from some subs contributed to the deterioration of quality content. Reddit making that decision against the will of certain subs felt disrespectful to the autonomy of those communities.
On the other hand, I was personally never under the impression that moderators were at all subject matter experts. Their primary role is to enforce the rules of the platform and the sub. Any sort of vetting process exists almost solely on the current mods and the feedback they decide to consider from the community.
They don’t need to be experts but they should be able to recognize bad advice at the very least so they can remove it.
Begun the moderator PR campaign has
Doesn’t matter; increased profits
Science community was looking for mods here on Lemmy and I immediately thought of this. I totally have the time and experience to moderate but… I’m not an expert in anything science. I’m not even smart.
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To be fair, reading and writing feel more like a natural ability I was born with, over a skill I developed over many years. For context: I was reading single words and short phrases at age 3. By 8, I had read my parents entire encyclopedia library. While I can see pictures in my mind’s eye, my thoughts are generally visualizations of words themselves. I hope this doesn’t come off like a brag or anything… I’ve always just found it weird because most people I talk to do not experience this.
Yep, definitely a redditor
You’re above average. Having a minimum of reading comprehension already qualifies you as a mod. You don’t need to know much about a given topic to mod the obvious trolls. But… you’re only one person, no matter how fast you read or write, you have a limit, and you shouldn’t go above it or you end up halfassing the job, or what users call “power tripping” (not taking context into account, blindly relying on user reports or votes just to get things out of the way, etc.).
While I can see pictures in my mind’s eye, my thoughts are generally visualizations of words themselves.
There were some interesting discussions about imagination, aphantasia, internal monologue, and different ways of internal perception on Reddit… they’re likely gone now (at least for my part).
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Anything to be profitable, I’ll say
