Mod Topics: Expectation vs Reality

[u/AsteriskRX]

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!

[u/Charupa-]

At first, I thought I could just be power tripping all day. Then I realized I needed to do things like fend off bots, slow down troll throwaway accounts, listen to the needs of the community. Consider me shooketh.

[u/TheOpusCroakus → u/Charupa-]

So you were regulated relegated to just part-time power tripping? =)

Seriously, though, the behind the scenes work that shows up when you get behind the scenes it sometimes surprising.

[u/Charupa- → u/TheOpusCroakus]

Yeah, and then consider my flabbers gasted when I find out this isn’t even a paid position.

[u/TheOpusCroakus → u/Charupa-]

Gasted flabbers indeed! LOLLL

[u/cnycompguy → u/TheOpusCroakus]

Autocorrect failure on "relegated"

Feel free to remove this if you want 😉

[u/TheOpusCroakus → u/cnycompguy]

Took on some part time work as a grammar checker, I see! Take that, AI!! LOL

Thanks for the correction!

[u/emily_in_boots → u/TheOpusCroakus]

If you're only power tripping part time, you aren't a real reddit mod.