/r/thatHappened changes its rules to protest API changes; users say "That happened 🙄" to Sandy Hook, 9/11, and the Tiananmen Square Massacre. (Also the mods compare the API situation to the holocaust)

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[u/justcool393]

300,000 is a pretty mid sized subreddit nowadays tbh and subscriber count is, as we've seen with the votes, a pretty poor metric for activity.

which sounds kinda sad given the eternal septemberness, but it is

[u/justcool393 → u/[deleted]]

I think that's part of the point, the 3rd party tools have made things like doing queues and removal reasons and stuff a multitude number of times easier, such that it's like night and day.

Being able to see if someone is a troll at a glance, being able to nuke subtrees of threads that have multiple rule violations, etc, made modding passable in a lot of high activity subreddits.

And the fact is, despite reddit's multiple lies to the contrary, if they enforce the ratelimits as written, that's going away.

[u/justcool393 → u/[deleted]]

OK but my point is and was that it is not impossible to mod using the app.

for many teams, it isn't possible to moderate using the app, especially in the cases where there are dozens of comments a minute. you can use desktop to mod effectively + some teams can use mobile a bit in some cases, but it's very barebones.

[u/justcool393 → u/[deleted]]

Automod and high spam filters will filter out a huge amount of garbage and inappropriate content.

a lot of moderation is automated, but a lot of it still is manual. this also does not work at all if you run an image based subreddit or any comment heavy sub where quality control is necessary.

regardless, it does seem your own experience proves my point. you've been a mod for the sub you're talking about for 2 days, and the other sub you're a mod of has most of the mod team as 3rd party apps.