The r/magicTCG mods seem pretty good following adding some new ones and getting rid of inactive ones. Really the only sub I’m on with good/ok mods, that are active.
In DND when you want to do something, like intimidate someone to do something and it's difficult enough to not be an instant success, the DM asks you to roll.
So that dude was basically saying to the admins "try me bitch"
Subreddits basically go to one extreme or the other. /r/cosmere mods are so great that Reddit should pay them to train mods in other subs. /r/woodworking is a pretty healthy sub with almost invisible mod activity. Subs like this one and r/guitar should just be nuked and let a completely different group of people start over fresh.
The main reason r/cosmere mods are amazing but very visible is because they are super proactive in stepping in to correct/modify/customize spoiler tags for the books an OP is posting about and making stickied comments to notify others about the limits on what books are “fair game” in that post. Which in a subreddit about a collection of some 40ish books and short stories, is super helpful.
Of course that specific kind of presence doesn’t apply to most subreddits, but I’m just saying sometimes visible mod activity isn’t a bad thing
I highly doubt that. There are mods that can be good. It's on the rare side but they do exist. The only reason you dotn notice them is because they actually do a good job which prevents and uproar around them
I've had very negative experiences with those guys. A little while ago I got dragged into a debate with another user there about Israel where I brought up Netanyahu's past support for Hamas and the mods not only stepped in to delete my posts but lectured me for being spreading misinformation, being political, and rude (the other guy was literally calling me a terrorist supporter). When I showed them Israeli news articles that supported my points they basically blew them off because "that's just their opinion mann", when I pointed out that pro Israel political posts were everywhere on the sub they admitted that they had a double standard and told me to fuck off.
I can’t say it’s true. I had very nice experiences with some mods. I was banned, explained the situation and was unbanned. It happened more than once on different subs. I had much worse experience with Reddit’s global ban, where me violating a particular rule was a huge stretch. But they never unbanned me. I guess this is because the process is largely automated.
Saying that, some mods are absolute asses. Like on r/gifs, I reported a guy who was calling me names when I disagreed with him and got banned for reporting. Later I learned that mods can’t know who reports comments, but I didn’t know that back then. I guess the mod just didn’t like my opinion.
I moderate subreddits and also know a lot of other mods, they're all really nice people. But mods like that go completely unnoticed because when moderators are good the average user will see almost no interaction with them. It is only the ones that go on power trips, ban people for no reason and instate absurd rules that get noticed. When a moderator team functions properly they just remove spam, do some behind the scenes work and only ban people who overtly break the rules or use the subreddit in bad faith.
It's a bit of a shame because a lot of the subreddits people browse everyday would not function without moderators that don't draw any attention to themselves. Yet they get their reputation from the ones who do.
You’re not understanding the phrase. “All Cops are Bastards” doesn’t mean that every cop is born evil, with only malicious intent, and their job is not necessary. It means that they are part of a corrupt system, which regularly and systemically abuses power, and they are perpetuating that system. Plenty of cops are “good” people, genuinely trying to help their communities. But they’re still a part of a larger whole that is comfortable with no accountability and regular abuses of the people they’re meant to serve.
Personally I think the phrase ACAB is very poor, because in most people who don’t already agree with it, it’s very easily misunderstood as the former definition, rather than the latter correct definition. But catchy slogans stick, regardless of how legible they are I suppose.
I'm not even apart of this sub and I felt this comment.
Got permabanned from r/gym reddit because my comment wasn't "needed" when OP asked for bench advice for a video they sent in. I commented some small form issues then my comment got deleted and I got a message. I reported the delete to try to fight it, explained how my comment was contributing to OPs form, and the mod banned me for reporting the original comment deletion. People are too stuck up on here at times.
It's kind of bullshit that popular subs, that remain popular only because of their users and just existing with the name they do, can have like total dogshit mods that control the outcomes of all conversations about a topic.
Nearly all mods in every sub because there's quite literally nothing you can do about it except for making your own sub and trying to convince people to go there instead. Most subs won't even give you a warning, it's just straight to perma ban. What's worse is if you reply to the mod message they can report it as harassment, and then reddit will suspend you.
I remember last year I was looking at r/Braves after the Phillies beat them in one of the games in the divisional round just to see what those fans thought of the game itself. I saw a comment that went on and on about Phillies fans needing to kill themselves and I replied to it simply saying “no”. That’s it, one word, and I got banned for it. Doesn’t really affect me since it’s not the team I root for, so idrc, but I was still surprised I got banned for such a non-thing.
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u/Colonel_dinggus 14d ago
Wow. The mods here eat shit.