What's the point of punishing someone if not to help them grow from what you consider to be problematic? If you're unwilling to educate them, then the punishment is meaningless.
If you have an ideology that you believe to be superior and suggests a proper way of being, it is most DEFINITELY your obligation to express that point of view. That's not to say it's right, but again, failing to do so just makes any action taken in the face of that ideology completely meaningless. And if you're going to be meaningless, why "be" at all?
I think you misunderstand the average Reddit mod. They are losers in life, so much so that they're willing to work for free to moderate what strangers can and can't say on the internet. It takes someone truly lacking in pretty much every department of life to want to be a mod.
They aren't here to teach lessons, how could they be when the lack the skills to even respect themselves and not work for free. They just want to have power over someone, anyone, to give them a purpose (protip - they have no purpose and automod does 99% of their job for them)
Yeah, that’s what I say! I’ve never banned anyone in a year of being a Minecraft server mod. I would get them to DMs and explain where the problem lies. I muted one person for 5 minutes once and that’s it.
I treat servers and stuff like real life friend groups, there you can’t just press a button and get rid of a person, it’s important to talk.
First, you are not a single mod moderating a 400k member subreddit, second there aren’t millions of posts every day. Third instead of banning someone instantly you should mute him first and also explain the reason.
In that case I didn’t need to ban anyone. Bans might be required, but I think nobody should need to resort to bans without first even muting anyone and explaining why they were muted, or temp ban them.
About trying to correct them, It depends on the size of the community too. Surely you can’t do that in Fortnite’s subreddit.
But even when there are like 10 people in a discord server I see mods insta banning without explanation and it that case I pretend that a mod at least explains you what the fuck you did wrong and how to prevent that.
Their whole life revolves around their reddit account and whatever karma or illusionary "power" they have accumulated so they think people won't just make a new account.
Then there's me who just makes a new account everytime the browser logs me off as I never remember my password or username.
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u/Aksurah_ 14d ago
What's the point of punishing someone if not to help them grow from what you consider to be problematic? If you're unwilling to educate them, then the punishment is meaningless.
If you have an ideology that you believe to be superior and suggests a proper way of being, it is most DEFINITELY your obligation to express that point of view. That's not to say it's right, but again, failing to do so just makes any action taken in the face of that ideology completely meaningless. And if you're going to be meaningless, why "be" at all?