• nicetriangle@kbin.social
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    11 months ago

    Fucking delusional on this writer’s part. It was far more than dozens and a lot of those people were power users with an outsized influence on the community.

    I personally moderated two 150-250k user subs. Stepped down from both and wiped all my posts and comments and have not contributed a single thing since.

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      11 months ago

      I modded a couple of million user subs, and ended up replacing all of my posts with the same text before never logging in again. Wonder if I’ve been removed from any of them yet.

      Side note, my life has improved so much after not doing free work for reddit. The things I’d see everyday… looking back I’d never do it again.

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        11 months ago

        I learned the “Don’t be a mod for free” lesson back in the IRC days. It’s not worth the mental strain, even if it’s for a community you love.

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      11 months ago

      I wish that was true for askhistorians. For some reason, there’s a lot of people with a huge amount of knowledge and potential that are attached at the hip to corporate platforms.

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      11 months ago

      I tried to wipe my comments but I during the protest I couldn’t access my user page, I could manually navigate to each of my comments via the posts but that would have been an impossible task. Soon after submitting a service ticket I was permabanned for a comment I’d made 2 years earlier… and even more bizarrely they message me a few weeks later saying they’d taken action against an account I’d reported for CP 4 years ago

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      11 months ago

      I didn’t wipe my old account, but I have not been back since everything went down. I’ve looked at it occasionally but contributed nothing. It seems pretty shit atm.