Reddit mods fear spam overload as BotDefense leaves “antagonistic” Reddit
Reddit mods fear spam overload as BotDefense leaves “antagonistic” Reddit
Mod-made tool claims to have banned 144,926 spambot accounts.
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It's almost like it would be easier to just walk away, I feel for the people that are forced to stay and continue to mod.
I don’t understand. I’m a mod of 2 large subreddits and I walked away. I still have that account and username but I haven’t logged in for 2 weeks and have no plans to do so again.
How are people forced to continue to mod?
That's what I don't get either, at this point I don't see how anyone would willingly spend their time modding on reddit, so there they must be doing it against their will!
I guess they just don’t want their community to die / be destroyed.
So migrate the sub to Lemmy/Kbin. Nothing stopping mods from promoting links, I suppose.
Too late.
Out of curiosity, are you modding here now?
Most mods that left Reddit are just chilling here as regular community members, and I don't blame them. I would chill out too after being exploited for free labor, allowing reddit to rake in the ad money.
I personally haven't moderated prior to Lemmy (I currently moderate over two communities here - one on this account and another on another account) but I feel that it's gonna get tedious if a flood of "normies" join us here.
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You guys underestimate the amount of abuse that people who have nothing else are willing to go through.
Nobody is forced to mod for free on Reddit
Exactly, it was kind of a facetious comment, but it is kind of sad there's mods that feel a sense of obligation to run a corporate social media site and that the reddit leadership is banking on the social currency of being a mod keeping any sort of value.
Perhaps op was thinking of mods for subs like r/suicide
I feel that mods in those types of subs genuinely care about the community and would probably feel that if they walked away, they’ll lose the chance to help someone in need.
The joke was that the only people making mods be mods is themselves, and some will never let go of the power trip even if the site is dead. Less dramatic but I saw the same sentiment on sysadmim. Like their sub is their own repo of curated information that they don't feel anybody else is capable of maintaining. But now there's like 20 sysadmin communities on Lemmy so hopefully anybody who still thinks that can find the motivation to move on.
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