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[–] 2 points 5 months ago (2 children)

I've complained about this in "mildly infuriating" before, numerous times, and based on response it seems that a critical mass of folks agree with me. However as long as the mods are inactive and don't remove irrelevant posts, the problem isn't going to get resolved. (I try to downvote the really bad offenders, but since most people browse all or subscriptions rather than in the community itself, they're probably not comparing the content against the community all that closely, so the upvotes for content always outweigh the downvotes for context).

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago

    The mod issue is a combination of things. There definitely are power mods and power-tripping mods here (see: yepowertrippinbastards@lemmy.dbzer0.com), although I'd believe the theory that many mods here intentionally try to have a light touch. I think the bigger issue is inactive/awol mods, and insufficient mods (many? most? smaller communities only have one mod: the person who created the community, who may/may not still be around). Also there are mods who welcome most any activity in their community, because otherwise they'd be dead.

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