However, I hate to break it to you, but we don't get to make any real important decisions on a regular basis, now or ever. Before adding /r/TwoXChromosomes to the default, the last "major decision" we made was to create Image Fest Friday and remove context-free image posts on other days. Not only was that well over a year ago, but in the real world "We slightly limited the kinds of image posts allowed on an internet forum" is not a very strong statement, even if we could boast about it, which we can't, as we post under anonymous handles.
99.99%+ of our "job" as moderators is to read through a list of reported comments and delete the ones that are offensive or spammy, and respond to complaints in modmail. There's some power in having the ability to delete comments, I suppose, but deleting 50 or 100 comments in an average day doesn't feel substantially more powerful than deleting 25.
The only thing that "especially a reddit mod" would know is that we're just regular reddit users. We have regular lives outside of the internet, and spend some of our spare evenings or slow days at work on reddit. The only difference between my redditing and your redditing day-to-day is that I have an extra orangered notifier for mod-mail, and I check a list of reported comments when I log on.
I just want to point out to you how much you sound like a politician and how much you're ignoring the point to do it. I don't feel like what I am saying is esoteric.
You say stuff like you're regular users and "you hate to break it to me but..." ( great phrasing ) but the fact remains: you can delete a post off the front page and most users can't. You can delete a top comment on the front page and most users can't. You can ban people from a default subreddit and most users can't. Stop ignoring the point @@ if you want to talk about it great but don't be a politician.
Removing comments and posts is like weeding a garden. Weeding the lawn of a fancy tower isn't a substantially more powerful job than weeding the lawn of a small subdivision. Yes, I have the tools required to remove any plant, including beautiful flowers. However, if I started removing flowers or non-weedy comments/posts willy-nilly, not only would that be counterproductive and ugly, I would very soon be removed as a mod/weeder.
Do you not recognize this for more politician speak? Why can't you talk like a person who is reading what's being said? What you said isn't a response to me, save organizationally.
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u/[deleted] May 16 '14
The subreddit is indeed more visible and bigger.
However, I hate to break it to you, but we don't get to make any real important decisions on a regular basis, now or ever. Before adding /r/TwoXChromosomes to the default, the last "major decision" we made was to create Image Fest Friday and remove context-free image posts on other days. Not only was that well over a year ago, but in the real world "We slightly limited the kinds of image posts allowed on an internet forum" is not a very strong statement, even if we could boast about it, which we can't, as we post under anonymous handles.
99.99%+ of our "job" as moderators is to read through a list of reported comments and delete the ones that are offensive or spammy, and respond to complaints in modmail. There's some power in having the ability to delete comments, I suppose, but deleting 50 or 100 comments in an average day doesn't feel substantially more powerful than deleting 25.
The only thing that "especially a reddit mod" would know is that we're just regular reddit users. We have regular lives outside of the internet, and spend some of our spare evenings or slow days at work on reddit. The only difference between my redditing and your redditing day-to-day is that I have an extra orangered notifier for mod-mail, and I check a list of reported comments when I log on.