Reddit Admin team asking for volunteer moderators at tons of subreddits

I hope it all burns down.

Imagine pissing off your free labour. Spez is a fucking idiot.

Not to rain on the ‘fuck reddit’ parade, because well, fuck reddit, but the volunteer mod requests in the image are all two to three months old. Wasn’t all the backlash from the API decision only in mid-June?

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I am so tempted to volunteer.

And then immediately go malicious compliance, turning everything NSFW and creating funky rules for whatever subreddit they give me.

• /r/Chrome would be exclusively about chromed-metal-centric DIY projects and car mods, everything else gets deleted and you get banned for repeat offenses.
• /r/therapy would just have a single stickied link to a how-to-delete-your-reddit-data-and-profile guide.

Etc, etc.

I find it especially concerning that subreddits dedicated to mental health like r/Anxietyhelp or r/therapy are just thrown into the mix to have some randoms be mods. They could easily come with bad intentions and even well intentioned individuals could inadvertently cause a lot of harm.The job of managing any community dedicated to helping those suffering from mental health issues is by no means an easy task just anyone can do. A lot of knowledge about mental health and certain subtle/not easily recognizable problems (i.e. covert incitement of suicide) is required. This is not something any responsible admin would just give away to just about anyone like this.

We don't need no water, let the motherfucker burn.

They haven't gotten to mine yet (/r/sandals and /r/flipflops). I still have them set as private. The admins won't be happy with whoever takes over because they will 100% turn them into NSFW fetish subs.

My favorite so far is /r/OpenAI, where the moderators locked and deleted the post call and the replies are mostly promises to enable NSFW pics only. 😂 Good mods!

It's so weird, there's no way they're not intentionally trying to kill the site.

I am a mod of a dedicated niche Discord fanclub server. We run the server well enough that the actual creator of the thing we like & owner/admin of the official server pops in occasionally to say hi, interact, and give updates on events & future releases. Hell, even the mod team from the official server joined our server for a more casual experience.

If I wasn't passionate about the subject, there's no way I'd be helping to maintain it out of the "good of my heart". The work of moderating something with an ultra-large fanbase? If you don't truly and passionately care about it, forget it! And even if you did, it can still be too much of am endeavor to put up with for free!

To let just any rando moderate a community will lead to its downfall. I'm especially worried when it comes to things like mental health & recovery subs.

3 months ago?

Did the mods leave on their own or were they thrown out after the blackout?

Oh man, that's a huge potential for trolling right there!

Just wait until they enact the draft.

r/therapy and r/anxietyhelp

I'm sure this will go well.

It’s only gross because they turn a profit on volunteers.

Sadly, my local laws, consider volunteering for a company as illegal work. So I can't help reddit. Of course there is dome exception, but none applies here.

I checked and there are 14 posts requesting mods in the past 6 days.

What's the pay like?

no. pay me.

This is how communities go to shit. On average, the people signing up to mod are losers with nothing better going on, then they abuse their new powers they obtained by simply responding to a post

No.

I think they misspelled "pawns" when they said volunteers.

These mods will be patsy's for the Reddit exec team to keep up the illusion of community until the stock IPOs.

People should become mods and ban people left and right. Eventually users will get annoyed and leave the platform.😂😂

Power mods about to be consolidating their power

Funny!

Is their AutoModerator still tracking all the porn subs?

Wow not even super niche communities either beard advice and whoosh used to be "popping" as they say

I would have accepted the offer so I can allow porn on the sub and remove every rules

Reddit should have the top mod be an admin, for at least the majors. Kind of crazy that the don't.

Oh dear and it's some of their more vulnerable subreddits too like Anxietyhelp and Therapy.

Oh and need some for Chrome, lol.

“We can’t subsidize other people’s businesses” - Steve "Fuckface" Huffman

That is SAD.

we all must accept this offer, to accelerate the crash of reddit

Four of those were posted three months ago, well before this whole thing kicked off.

Curious to know if the comments are more “What’s the time commitment…expectations…etc?” Or “Bahahaha fuk /u/spez and fuk reddit lolz”

Yeah I tried creating a reddit user a month ago, and I was immediately shadow-banned.

I wouldn't be surprised if reddit has a "no fly" list.

They're about to discover just how fucking difficult it is to find good moderators.

Modteams can't find good mods when they're actively searching as part of their passion for this shit. Admins will do a much worse job of finding anyone.

But those were posted months ago?

We haven’t seen the fallout from mod departure and good bots shutting down yet. This is going to get ugly

Ask how much is the pay because giving away free labor for billion dollar corporations is for suckers.

Asking for warm body that does not close or nsfw sub until Spez's ipoh. No other work needed.

Just offer all the jobs to ChatGPT!

they've closed r/r4r down 😔

Let me tell you how I nearly downvoted the post reflexively because of the title. My bad on that, and seriously, what the fuck reddit. What utter trash.

More replies than I thought there would be. Are those volunteers?

Apparently Margot Robbie is a mod on our android (world) community? Isn't that cool? Reddit is old and busted. Maybe we'll see more celeb mods? Go figure.

Wooooosh

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Lemmy FTW.

All of Hitler's American youth are going to flock their and get their fascist dream job.

(My Hitler's you I mostpy mean 45+ yo men)