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Replacing the entire moderation team of 5000+ subs is not a practical solution and Reddit admins know it (kbin.social)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Which is why /u/jailbaitlover I mean /u/spez is sending the message that they would gladly give total power to whatever mod crosses the picket line so they can boot the rest.

If Reddit had to replace all these mods it would be complete chaos and is not much better than the blackout. They will see the same exact problems Twitter has seen since they fired most of their content moderators.

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Two reasons:

The desire to shepherd a vibrant community of people around a subject that is important to you
Dick swinging

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

Replacing a lot of mods at once is going to result in a lot more of the latter and eliminate a lot of the former.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Third and most likely reason: you got involved in the early days with something that was really small, but mushroomed to become something really big.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I would classify that as a subset of my first bullet point, but it's not an unreasonable distinction.