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by cocojumbo123 1093 days ago
> Then they will find new ones.

Looks easier than it actually is. Here's how a mod routine looks like:

check modqueue (that's the place where all reports come). Some are fake because one user has some beef with another, some trolls, some spam, some user insulting each-other.

you work through the queue, by the time you are done users who were banned are already complaining on modmail, you take your time to read all complaints and try to shrug the threats and the attempted doxing. you get a thank you for each 100 threats.

rinse and repeat. whereas it might look glamorous from the outside in practice is boring, repetitive and tedious. in large subs you also have to coordinate with other mods to make sure there is some consistency in modding actions.

finding new mods is easy, having them stick around, I'd say not so much.
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arbitrage 1093 days ago
Reddit came down hard on threatening mods the other year. Did you forget, or are you omitting that on purpose to strengthen your argument?

If you're a mod, and get threatened, ban the user. It's simple. Move on with your life. 90% of your problems in Reddit are caused by 10% of the people. Get rid of the trouble makers and your job is a cakewalk.

Is this really that difficult to reason through?

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pavel_lishin 1093 days ago
> If you're a mod, and get threatened, ban the user. It's simple. Move on with your life.

Have you ever moderated a sufficiently large community?

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cocojumbo123 1092 days ago
> If you're a mod, and get threatened, ban the user.

threats always come after the ban and is trivial to create a new account and continue the threats. the complaints about mod harrassment are as old as reddit but spez always promissed solutions and never delivered. heck, my sub had its mod discussion archive leaked - on reddit!, we reported it to admins repatedly and they did a big nothing.

one of my mod colleagues got doxxed and had a banned user ringing at his very physical door demanding "to discuss the issue", how would you feel about it ?

edit: and this is a boring country sub, I can't even imagine what modding a political sub is like.

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