My own opinion of mods is that most of the times you won’t notice that, but at the same time you’re likely to notice that automated tools are effectively getekeeping the place much more than any human mod.
Another issue is that obsessing over reddit or discord mods speaks volumes on one’s engagement with these social media.
Like, we say that mods are ‘no lifing’ the site, but so are users who complain too much.
Either way we have dozens of tools to make research or learn new things and we certainly don’t need reddit to do that.
Shitty mods are shitty mods and reddit neither invented nor cornered the shitty mod market.
I disagree that it takes an obsession to get annoyed by moderator actions you don’t agree with, especially when it happens to something you are actively engaging with. Double especially when you know via that participation that no rules were broken and that it was likely the subject matter itself being censored (or just one side of it) rather than anything that the community was better off not seeing.
My own opinion of mods is that most of the times you won’t notice that, but at the same time you’re likely to notice that automated tools are effectively getekeeping the place much more than any human mod. Another issue is that obsessing over reddit or discord mods speaks volumes on one’s engagement with these social media. Like, we say that mods are ‘no lifing’ the site, but so are users who complain too much. Either way we have dozens of tools to make research or learn new things and we certainly don’t need reddit to do that.
Shitty mods are shitty mods and reddit neither invented nor cornered the shitty mod market.
I disagree that it takes an obsession to get annoyed by moderator actions you don’t agree with, especially when it happens to something you are actively engaging with. Double especially when you know via that participation that no rules were broken and that it was likely the subject matter itself being censored (or just one side of it) rather than anything that the community was better off not seeing.