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by dageshi 1229 days ago
My guess is, being a mod means you see patterns and you know when something is going to descend into a shitstorm because you've seen similar comments descent into a shitstorm before.

So eventually mods kill comments not because they particularly dislike them but because they can't be bothered with dealing with the inevitable shit to come.
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ilyt 1229 days ago
Right but at that point you're not doing your job and should leave.

And also some mods think it's their job to delete stuff that was self-moderated by downvotes anyway which is just silly in the first place.

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dageshi 1229 days ago
It's not a job. It's a hobby at best. The people who do it don't have to care about your free speech, nobody has to care about your free speech other than the government.
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johnnyanmac 1223 days ago
They treat it like a job. Regardless, I think when you tire of something that's not critical to your livelihood you should step down.

But if that happened, powermods wouldn't be a thing.

>The people who do it don't have to care about your free speech

No, but I don't have to care about the bog swamp of discourse you moderate just because "we have 1 million subs". Well great, everyone is angry and nuance is talked down. I don't want that to be the place.

But if keeping your mod power is more important than, well, moderating your community, you reap what you sow.

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