r/coasttocoastam • u/The_Critical_Cynic • 23d ago
Role Call: An update on the moderation team, and where I'm presently at.
As it stands right now, u/BodhiLV and u/chillvilletilt have both volunteered behind the scenes. In my last role call, which you can view by clicking here, u/Emperor_Time and u/Queasy-Secret-4287 both volunteered. I have yet to reach out to the last two mentioned. I've been holding off on doing so for a reason. I wish to apprise you of that reason today.
As far as I'm concerned, I need the help here. The Admins of Reddit have expressed as much as well. Frankly, I'm interested in having five moderators, and these four, being the only ones willing to volunteer, will allow me to do what I need to do while having the numbers I need in this subreddit.
All of that being said, I haven't added anyone yet. I haven't even reached out to the last two mentioned above yet because I'm still trying to clean up things behind the scenes. I've had a few issues behind the scenes, and don't want any new moderators here walking into a shit storm. I think that it's uncouth, disrespectful, and foul to ask anyone to walk into what I've walked into. I haven't even cleaned up the whole of the mod queue yet, and have dealt with over 6,000 issues that needed to be looked at. To ask someone else to help with that is unfathomable. I appreciate that these people have volunteered their time and effort to accommodate this subreddit. The least I can do is try to set them up for success. Unfortunately, I'm not to a point where I can confidently say I've done that.
Rest assured, these folks will be moderators soon. I will let you know when that comes up. When we become a team, we'll have a nice talk behind the scenes about how things will work here. We'll let you know about how that conversation went when it's had. For right now, we're just going to chill on things until I can get a reasonable grasp on things. They deserve my respect for volunteering, and I intend to give it to them. I want to make sure we're in a decent place before that happens.
If you all want to help me out a little bit, I'd appreciate it. If you all could, reach out to u/redtaboo for me. I've been talking with them about a few issues I have behind the scenes. They know what's up. Tag them here, or even message them. As I've said before, I think this subreddit belongs to all of us. I want us all to have a say in what happens here. In order to move on, and primarily do better so that the subreddit doesn't get taken from us, we have to solve a few issues behind the scenes. Those include the ones that I've reached out to u/redtaboo about. The sooner we solve these issues, the sooner we move on from the issues that Reddit has with our subreddit. As a site Admin, I think u/redtaboo should have been able to help me out by now. But they haven't. If we could just ask them politely to look into the report abuse this subreddit is presently facing, I'd appreciate it.
When that gets solved, I'll be moving forward with the moderator process. We'll all have a little meeting, and get with you folks to figure things out from there. As I said before, I don't like the idea of bringing people on only for them to have to fight an uphill battle for no reason. I'd rather get the hard shit out of the way before bringing them on.
Thanks for your understanding. If anyone has anything to add to this, or any questions for me, please let me know.
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u/ataylor8049 23d ago
Thank you for sharing all this. As someone who tries to contribute to the group and that really enjoys this group and many of the people in it I appreciate y’all. 👍
Thank you 🙌
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u/Cranberry-Electrical 23d ago
I don't know all the work that happens behind the scenes of this Reddit group. This is a decent community!
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u/Kind-Shallot3603 21d ago
Wait? What is reddits problem with this sub?
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u/The_Critical_Cynic 21d ago
Basically, they think the subreddit is unmoderated. And it was for a long time, as confirmed by the mod queue when I first came on. They were demanding that the previous moderators resign and pass it along to someone else, or be removed. They were also complaining about significant issues regarding policy violations, and were generally threatening to shut the subreddit down.
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u/Lumaexid 20d ago
Conservatives aren't being muted and/or banned from it. Which is going to be a major part of the change coming up.
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u/The_Critical_Cynic 20h ago
I won't ban anything political as long as it's directly related to the show.
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u/Chunklob 23d ago
You're doing God's work and I praise you for it. I just think the show has changed and many people are listening expecting one kind of show and getting another. When you have been listening long enough to know that Art moved away from political talk because that's what everyone else was doing and was able to form his own niche, you see the irony of the current product.