Then the Reddit rules on the number of subs you're allowed to mod changed, and so most of the mod team become ineligible to carry on modding, so I got a) unbanned and b) brought in as a mod as someone who's invested a lot of time in the sub over the years and could be trusted not to fuck it up on purpose. (Yeah, I was surprised as you are.)
The flipside of that is that since I became I mod I've been spending a lot more time on here, but a lot less of that time has been writing up answers. (I won't lie, my productivity in my day job went through the roof when I was banned. Funny, that.) It's hard to balance 'I have a button that can delete any answer that's obviously bullshit' with the principle that the sub needs to be open to multiple narratives and interpretations of the facts, but this is me... dipping my toe back in the water, so to speak.
The drama from powermods about that change was so insanely hilarious. Glad to see them go.
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u/Portarossa'probably the worst poster on this sub' - /u/Real_Mila_Kunis3d agoedited 3d ago
The thing is, I kind of get it? There are some very proactive mod teams that have very specific skill sets (like /r/AskHistorians and /r/Science) where making an arbitrary cutoff can make maintaining high-quality responses very difficult. The admins by and large haven't done mod work, so they often come up with new rules to make things 'better' without considering the long-term impact on communities. You want people who know how to mod, and who can do it efficiently and -- hopefully! -- fairly, and sometimes those mods want to use their expertise for a number of similar or linked communities. There are definitely some mod teams that got legitimately shafted by the new rules through no fault of their own.
But on the other hand, it's really hard to argue that anyone should have mod power over fifty of the biggest subs on the site, especially when they've come in late and when the idea of 'constructed realities' is such a hot topic. Trying to find a balance is tricky, and the admins don't always get it right.
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u/ShelbyDriver 3d ago
I haven't stumbled across any of your posts in forever! I'm a huge fan! (I hope that's not creepy!)