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  • TimTheEnchanter@beehaw.org
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    2 years ago

    I would love to know how many mods are no longer moderating, have reduced their moderating, or have left Reddit altogether after this whole situation.

    I haven’t been on Reddit since the third party apps shut down, so I have no idea what’s going on over there now.

    • TheColonel@reddthat.com
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      2 years ago

      I personally resigned from a subreddit I founded and moderated for 11 years. Had nearly 300k subscribers but enough is enough.

      Reddit isn’t like it was when I started using it 17 years ago and it’s not going back.

      Fuck Spez.

      • RealAccountNameHere@beehaw.org
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        I’d like to thank you for what you did.

        I had been on Reddit for a similar amount of time, but I had cycled through a number of usernames during that period. So it wasn’t nearly as big of a loss for me as it was for you—I appreciate the lengths you went for supporting the cause. Thank you. 

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      I moderated two subreddits over 1m users, one over 250k users, and a handful over 10k users.

      Every. single. one. of my team members has left, except for one on one of the tiny subreddits.

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        Some of our most active mods on /r/android left once their apps stopped working. We still keep it up with barebones modding, with a prominent link to !android@lemdro.id. Something I’m noticing is that people who were banned from communities on Reddit for inflammatory remarks, trolling, and spam are carrying over their vitriol to the Fediverse.

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      I and another dude modded a 30k+ sub. There were 5 mods, but the other 3 are basically gone at that point, and I was brought on because I was active in the community. We both left, and within a week users are complaining about the slacking mods and wondering why spam is getting through, why discussion threads aren’t posted, etc.

      We didn’t do anything with the shutdown, as it wasn’t “our” community to shut down. We were just brought on for workload reasons. But we’re both gone now, and the cracks were showing immediately.

      Sadly, I’m fairly certain it’s literally just me in the equivalent fed community. Haven’t seen any other subs, at least.

    • Chris Remington@beehaw.org
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      2 years ago

      I stopped moderating all of the niche subs (that I created) except for two and have, basically, let the mod team run things. I only dip in to check modmail in case a mod needs me. Otherwise, I don’t use Reddit at all. Beehaw!

      • TimTheEnchanter@beehaw.org
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        2 years ago

        The niche subs are the ones I’ve missed the most, honestly. There were some really great little communities on there!

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          Yeah, niche ones provide the most value since the popular ones are the easiest to replace with the larger user base that seeks them out. Too many niche subs sold themselves short on their importance when it being niche was what kept people coming back over leaving due to lack of alternatives for that interest.

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          2 years ago

          Oh absolutely! I’ll remain the ‘head mod’ of /r/AskBibleScholars but the mod team there can handle the day-to-day. I’m still considering (and working on) the Q&A section of askbiblescholars.com and hope to provide the same service to the wider Internet.

    • joeygibson@lemmy.one
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      2 years ago

      I was a mod for a 500k+ sub, and I left. I wrote the post about us going dark in protest, and that was the last thing I did. I left myself in the list of mods for a few weeks, just lurking in modmail, seeing the threats from the admins come in. I officially removed myself from the mod team about a week ago. We had 6 active mods, and there are now just two remaining.

    • Tolookah@discuss.tchncs.de
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      2 years ago

      I know dndmemes went back to sfw, and I’m pretty sure there are no active mods anymore. It looks like one person can post a few things a day, granted this ability by a mod before they were removed.

    • m-p{3}@lemmy.ca
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      I’m a mod on a 100k sub, and I haven’t done any moderating since mid-june.