This feels like the opposite of a Power Trippin' Bastard.
Unless he tripped over his own power? 🤔 🤔 🤔
This feels like the opposite of a Power Trippin' Bastard.
Unless he tripped over his own power? 🤔 🤔 🤔
I'm involved!
I'd still like them to confirm. I dont mind moderating, but clearly this was a decision they made rather... Abruptly. And I'm sure that they didn't think things through.
It can be real hard dealing with an onslaught of criticism from a growing cohort of internet randos.
Ive modded larger subreddits and forums, I generally dont find it to be much it an issue personally. Its not something to take personally in the first place, and people who go over line into harassment can be ignored / comments deleted / banned anyway.
I would also put my comment clearly in the constructive territory.
I would say yours was just a little more pointed, but I agree that it still falls under constructive criticism. I also think you're doing the right thing continuing to try to get a response out of the original moderator in case they did this in a fit while having an unrelated bad day or something. We never know what's happening in people's lives outside the internet, and maybe they were dealing with a death in the family or who knows, just something where the stressors added up and this stress of moderating became too much to bear when faced with constructive criticism. They may come back in a day or so and regret their decision, which is why it's good of you to keep communications open. Cheers, mate.
This is honestly just funny.
Moderation by sortition is also an interesting idea, even though this isn't quite that.
That's the opposite of power tripping. This belongs on a "fedi drama" sub, not this one.
This is pretty funny though. Lemmy is full of people who bitch and moan, but never step up and fix anything.
I've had people bitch about what I post in my communities. My response is usually pretty simple: if they don’t like it, they’re welcome to post their own content in my communities, or they can start their own communities. They never do. They just complain. LMAO
So hey, I'm loving what the guy did.
The complaints are quite reasonable - and point of note, that comment from me was one of a whopping 3 in that thread - with a bunch of posts having been removed by that mod. The post started off blaming the users for deleting after they got an answer, including one that was marked solved.
Thats not what happened though, the mod deleted them. Not locked, removed.
I stand by my comment that its the wrong approach.
I mean that take is pretty fair, the number of people bitching about features but not willing to learn a little bit of coding to contribute is too damn high. "We want better UI and to make it easier for normies!" So then contribute to the project. "No!"
I can see that. You don't like how I run this? It's your fucking problem now.
That's an awful mentality to have as a moderator, I'd hate to see how you do things in the real world. I will definitely be avoiding your communities.
I kept about 20 niche subreddits alive by moderating them instead of letting them get closed, until reddit pissed me off enough to leave.
I didn't owe reddit shit all, and nobody owes you anything. But you sure seem to think so.
Can you show me where I said you owed me anything? That's a two way street, and I'm allowed to not want to participate in your communities if I don't like your behavior. Is there a reason you're acting like this in this post?
You still seem to be pissed off, maybe it wasn't just reddit?
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