• abff08f4813c@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    To all the folks saying that reddit couldn’t replace the mods, that it was too big an effort, that they couldn’t run a big sub all by themselves, I have only one thing to say to you.

    You were right.

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      1 year ago

      I’m sure users will step forward if they care. Otherwise, it’s just a campaign optimization at work. Limit the breadth of organic content to deepen the brand-friendly content and push more paid media into the feed.

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        1 year ago

        I’m sure users will step forward if they care.

        This is the part I didn’t quite get. Like I am sure that there were users who requested this sub in r/redditrequest after r/TIHI became unmoderated.

        For some reason I don’t understand, these requests did not pan out and it ended up getting shut down instead.

        At the very least, users stepping forward doesn’t seem to be enough on its own.

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          From the one time I tried requesting a sub there, they don’t just let someone have a sub if they ask and it’d be banned otherwise, they probably won’t give it to you if you don’t have mod experience for example (the reason I didn’t get the niche sub I was trying to revive, which is reasonable enough), or if they feel that what experience you do have isn’t enough that you’d likely be able to handle the particular sub. TIHI is a big sub, so they’d not just be looking for any random volunteer, it’d have to be someone experienced with moderating sizable subs, probably. And those people are, well, exactly the kind of people angry with reddit right now.

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        1 year ago

        Yes they most definitely will…but increasingly such things likely will not happen on the Reddit platform, moving forward. There are actual reasons that the mods left - e.g. to moderate a sub of millions of subscribers takes effort, which needs tools to make that happen - and those reasons still exist.