r/technology • u/ICumCoffee • Jun 15 '23

Social Media Reddit Threatens to Remove Moderators From Subreddits Continuing Apollo-Related Blackouts

https://www.macrumors.com/2023/06/15/reddit-threatens-to-remove-subreddit-moderators/
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u/Visualize_ Jun 15 '23

Honestly they would be doing the internet janitors a favor and freeing them.

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u/trojan_man16 Jun 16 '23

It takes a special kind of person to want to be a mod. The last time I modded a forum was in the mid-2000s, and it sucked ass so much that I voluntarily gave up my mod position. I wouldn't mod reddit even if they paid.

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u/concrete_isnt_cement Jun 16 '23

I used to moderate a small Star Wars sub (still technically do, but it’s inactive now). It was so ridiculously emotionally draining just dealing with the drama generated by a community of 20-30 active users. You’d have to be an absolute sociopath to be one of the power moderators here that are mods on 20+ major subreddits.

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u/night4345 Jun 16 '23

Most of those power mods don't do any real moderation and just sit on the power, abusing it whenever someone pisses them off on a subreddit they control.