The fact that humans continue to mod for free, to make reddit a profit which they will never see, baffles me.
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0.1 % is what they say. Why are they even still there after all that happened? Is "power" really that important to everyone?
I never met one on reddit who wasn't just getting off on the power trip. I think the nature of that role just draws a certain type who wants to do a specific thing
I never met one on reddit who wasn’t just getting off on the power trip.
The ones who don't, you never meet.
*looks around* 👀
I only mod /r/WestAllis because it was locked from new submissions; I just wanted to reopen it for public discussion and to promote a local board game gathering I run there (which has gotten maybe one redditor who is also on Facebook, which is where the bulk of promotion happens anyway). So, there: you have now met at least one, lol.
Under new rules rolling out over the coming months, a small number of users will be required to leave some of their moderator posts so that they aren’t moderating more than five subreddits with 100,000 monthly visitors.
Good. We could do with a similar rule here on lemmy. I know there's probably a lack of people to fill all the needed moderator positions, but I'm pretty sick of seeing the same people moderating the majority of communities that I visit.
It becomes especially apparent when someone gets banned from one community and the powermod bans them from every other community that they moderate. It's rare that someone actually deserves that type of scorched-earth response.
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