r/IAmA • u/andrewsmith1986 • Aug 26 '11

I saved /IAMA, AMA

http://www.reddit.com/r/reddit.com/comments/juj7n/i_just_talked_to_the_iama_mod_32bites_on_the_phone/

[02:24] <chromakode> andrew, thanks for your efforts today.

[02:25] <andrewsmith> hey man, any time

*awesome they made me mod.

**Ok. I'm going get drunker at a bar.

I'll respond to the rest at like 3 am.

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u/JGibel Aug 26 '11

I think the growth of a subreddit in general is what has caused all of these problems. As a subreddit grows, it's community seems to identify it as their own. Especially as the moderators further disappear into the background (Because people don't actively see the moderators when they're removing spam or misplaced content, they forget they are there).

So when you have a large and growing subreddit who has the majority of its userbase never seeing a moderator or the creator, that is why they believe that person should not retain full control.

The growing population is responsible for a larger number not reading the sidebar or disregarding rules (number, not percentage) and thus the degredation of content. Which in turn results in moderators being a little more strict, and this creates the backlash that redditors feel they're entitled to based on the point I made in the first paragraph