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[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 week ago (45 children)

I'm just not really getting all the hate hate. These people started a community or worked their way into a mod spot. They had a specific set of rules for the community that was posted and reasonably fair. Their community got popular. They realized their site admin was modding their community according to rules that they didn't want to also enforce. They tried to move the community to a better fit instance as non-dramatically as they knew how.

That's all perfectly reasonable to me. Clearly they did a shit job at doing it non dramatically but they're communicating and adjusting their position to try and accommodate others and that alone should buy them a little good will. They are trying to figure out what to do, everyone is trying to figure out what to do. What's with all the hate?

[–] Noel_Skum 55 points 1 week ago (22 children)

From what I’ve seen it appears that (at least one of) the mods claim to “own” the community - which is a disturbing way of thinking about moderation, in my opinion.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (4 children)

I mean one of the things that I hated most about Reddit in my final days was that the admins removed and replaced mods that purposefully closed in protest.

If someone starts a sub they should be allowed to close and nuke it at will. If someone wants it back enough then they can make a clone.

[–] Noel_Skum 21 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I don’t disagree with your first paragraph but partly do with the second.

If it’s a unique channel-type community you started, produce most of the content for and actively moderate quickly and consistently then, for sure, you should have almost complete control… but 196 is/was none of those things.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

I don’t think requiring a mod team to mod and create all the content is reasonable barrier for control of their sub.

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