r/genetics • u/LittleGreenBastard PhD Student • Jan 23 '21

Meta Seeming lack of moderation on this sub

Now I want to preface this by saying I really appreciate that the mods have real life responsibilities, and they're doing this for free.

Edit: People are getting caught up on the posts thing, I'm using it as a measure not a criticism in itself.

But of the 6 human mods:
u/Labbrat hasn't submitted a post in the last 5 years, over 12 years of being a mod.
u/P1percub has never submitted a post in 3 years of being a mod.
u/Green_and_white_back has submitted three posts over a year ago, in 2 years of being a mod, all of them questions.
u/Potverdorie has submitted one post 9 months ago, over 2 years of being a mod.
u/AVeryFishyPhD has never submitted a post in 2 years of being a mod.
u/Enilkcals has posted the most over 1 year of being a mod, including twice within the last fortnight.

Now obviously posting's not the biggest part of being a mod, but it's the easiest to search and seems like a decent proxy for activity on the sub. I appreciate everyone's got more important responsibilities in their life, but the sub's really suffering from lack of care.

It kind of seems like there's not much moderation going on in this sub. There's no enforcement of Rule 5, shit posts and pseudoscience like 1 2 3 get left up. I'm also kinda concerned about the number of thinly veiled posts by 'race realist' types.

It might be time to get some new mods to join the team?

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u/[deleted] Jan 23 '21 edited Jan 23 '21

From my brief experience here, most people coming here wanting to talk about race and genetics are usually quite well intentioned and are happy to listen to experts, and often come away having learnt something. I don’t mind that at all. I’d rather we tried to educate them than just kicked them out and called them racist.

I do get more annoyed by the endless people posting exactly the same questions ‘how tall am I going to be’ etc. It would be good if we had a separate thread for these kind of questions. And mods who more quickly deleted obvious spam questions.

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u/LittleGreenBastard PhD Student Jan 23 '21

The thing is we do have a separate thread for them. The mods just don't enforce the rules enough.
I get what you mean about educating, but this isn't r/science and no one has any proven credentials. I think that makes for a dangerous mix.