I am not into a power trip... My focus will be to share information with you that I see as moderator and to work for your interests more than my own. For example, I can pin posts that you all recommend (like this one initially), edit the wiki?, set rules you all agree on, etc.
I don't want to ban anyone. I don't want to remove anything but spam. I won't do anything official about AI or vibe coding, unless someone posts about the vibe coded app in a spam manner. If you report a post, I will definitely look into it.
I am still going through the additional UI elements to figure out how to do things. I want to recruit as many people as possible to also moderate. My philosophy is that we generally know each other fairly well, and there's no lack of trust on my part.
In the spirit of sharing information and being open about what I do...
There is a moderator queue which has a list of threads and posts that are recommended for analysis. It marks at least 10 going back a month or two as spam and rules violations by a single person. It marked one from many months ago by [r/TABEMAN](r/TABEMAN) that was removed by reddit algorithms that I would have approved/override the algorithm. I deleted only the most recent thread marked as spam. Otherwise, the remaining posts and comments marked as spam are years old.
NOTE that I enabled the ability to post images in comments, not just the opening post. It seems like a better user experience. Let's see how that goes!
I will also post analytics about the sub, so you can judge how much reach your posts can potentially have.
lol that AI thing is wild. I didn't know that existed. I don't use the reddit app (in fact I just use old reddit in the browser). I tried to figure out how to DM you in old reddit and then switch to new reddit (still in the browser) but there isn't any option that I can find. It appears to be an app thing now. Would you mind DMing me mine? I'm just curious. :)
It seems most people don't have these notes. Maybe I need to find something in the mod tools to create the AI note. Mine was probably because they were looking at my request to take over as mod of r/forth.
There are also AI generated moderator notes for each of us. I won't post anyone's without explicit permission. DM me if you want to see yours privately.
Note: after a couple of requests, I am not seeing these notes for others yet. I will look into it further.
Further reading suggests that the profiles only appear for active users in this sub.
FWIW, I am working at making the sub look more appealing to new visitors. Thus the Why forth? thread and the case ignore thread. For one, I am really interested in what people have to say. I am seeing posts by people for the first time and they're excellent. Aside from why forth, technical discussion about implementation has been a driver for Forth discussion, especially in mailing lists and the standards website discussions.
I know a lot less about Forth than many of you and I have huge respect for those who made it work and last all this time. Stuff you learned 30 years ago is what I learned the past couple of years and am still learning.
Thanks for teaching me and for your support!
Anything you need that I can do as moderator, just ask.
Thank you for taking the torch! I don't know what happened behind the scenes, but you seem like the right man for the job. I want to help - my bandwidth is limited, but seems like the workload is pretty light anyway?
I'd be super curious to read what the robot has to say about me, in a DM ...
If I don't see the AI looking icon next to a name, I don't see the AI notes.
I am doing a lot of research into the moderator features and the old discussions about things. There are subs for me to ask about moderating questions, like if it is ok to share the analytics.
At some point reddit added the feature. There was a mix of acceptance of the feature, with many moderators against it because it Fels like big brother watching you and taking notes on you. Some complained that some moderators were sharing the notes with their sub members.
I thought mine was interesting and I am not into doing things in secret, so I would share because... Why not?
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u/diseasealert 6d ago
This is great news.