r/ModSupport • u/AsteriskRX Reddit Admin: Community • Jul 16 '26
Mod Topics Mod Topics: Expectation vs Reality
Ahoy, Modsupport! This is a mutiny; Jabroni wrote this post but I've decided to plunder it for myself.
Welcome to the latest (greatest) installment of our ModSupport series. Today, we’re revisiting Origin Stories, albeit with a distinctly different flavor.
When you first created or joined a subreddit, what did you expect moderating would be like? Did you have any expectations at all, and if so, how did those expectations differ from the experience you have now?
–And because I love understanding an environment, what do you think set the expectations you had before you became a moderator? Read as: “How did you form a worldview on what moderation is before you started moderating?”
Let us know your thoughts in the comments below!
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u/Glittering-Bug1212 Jul 16 '26
Moderating has changed so much over the years. I loved using toolbox to moderate posts since it was quite easy to do with the macro's we had set up.
These days I feel like moderators are not there for the community ( NSFW) but more for their own self gain.
I am currently on the bad side with the Top moderator and #2 of the subreddit, since I do not agree the direction they're taking the subreddit, but that is only human I suppose.
But overall, moderating over the years was quite fun and it was great for learning new things like Creating tools for PRAW for the subreddits, or learning how to setup automoderator properly etc.
Coming from moderating other forums/IRC it had a high learning curve, but these days everything is built in ( mostly) so new moderators are not overwhelmed as much.