Reddit moderators without expertise leading to dangerous advice
Reddit moderators without expertise leading to dangerous advice
Reddit moderators who participated in protests against the company’s API charges say that they have been replaced by individuals who...
I started a sub that had 400k users and was around for 10 years. /r/functionalprint
After I made it read only, admins they just up and gave it to some rando mod that had no experience in that sub at all.
So it doesn't surprise me the mods of a lot of subs have absolutely NO experience in the subs they are modding.Screw Reddit.
There are a ton of dangerous 3D printing happening. Especially people doing shit that's pressurized.
You got a Lemmy community nowadays?
Built my 3D printer from scratch back in 2013 because prebuilt was so expensive, lot of money later it worked well but now it's in the garage waiting for IDK something.
Yes,
https://kbin.social/m/functionalprint
most lemmy's can find it.
But it appears your particular lemmy (mindoki.com) isn't federated with kbin or something.
It should look like https://lemmy.mindoki.com/c/[email protected]
If fact, mindoki is missing a LOT of communities in the fediverse.
Built my 3D printer from scratch back in 2013 because prebuilt was so expensive
That's cool, I did the exact same thing in 2013... http://www.shadowram.ca/
JHead + Greg Wades Extruder with a RAMPS 1.4 board... retrofit an old Cartesian bot that was scrapped.
It's almost like moderators were highly skilled workers in a very, very small niche. It's as if a company that sold highly specialized training for prenatal brain surgeons, started a campaign to discredit every single prenatal brain surgeon in the world and force them all to lose their jobs, then attempted to fill in every one of those jobs with middle school theater kids.
Are... are you a prenatal brain surgeon?
moderators were highly skilled workers in a very, very small niche.
Let's not pivot 180 degrees here. Mods were not the chosen ones by any means. In fact some other breaches of trust that Reddit plagued its users with were specifically because of how much power mods had and how they abused those powers. Maybe some mods were actually knowledgeable about the field, but there isn't really any reason to extrapolate.
I just don't know how I feel about the whole reddit mod situation in the context of this article.
On one hand, it does seem like the removal of moderators from some subs contributed to the deterioration of quality content. Reddit making that decision against the will of certain subs felt disrespectful to the autonomy of those communities.
On the other hand, I was personally never under the impression that moderators were at all subject matter experts. Their primary role is to enforce the rules of the platform and the sub. Any sort of vetting process exists almost solely on the current mods and the feedback they decide to consider from the community.
They don't need to be experts but they should be able to recognize bad advice at the very least so they can remove it.
Doesn't matter; increased profits
we hate that posts are removed for stupid reasons on reddit so we made lemmy and now we celebrate that posts aren't removed from reddit for stupid reasons.
god I hate redditors.
Science community was looking for mods here on Lemmy and I immediately thought of this. I totally have the time and experience to moderate but... I'm not an expert in anything science. I'm not even smart.
Go for it. Even if you don't know much about science; there are other things a mod can do to improve a community. Deleting troll posts and spam and advertisements, creating and maintaining community rules, adding a nice banner and icon, featuring posts, keeping an eye on possible harassment, fix broken/decayed links ... you don't need scientific knowledge for these, and it may still help the other mods. You can leave the actually scientific discussions to the community members, as long as you manage provide a safe environment to enable these discussions ;)
The effort to glorify mods since Reddits demise is risible.
Mods who made arbitrary decisions on content and bans, suddenly find themselves subject to arbitrary decisions and bans.
Cry me a fucking river.
Mods>Gods
Yeah, I have no sympathy for any mods. All my experiences have been negative. Even when trying to help communities by reporting spam or asking mods what they are doing about it, I would just get a permaban and muted.
Maybe if more of them did an effort to actually moderate the moderators, have subs work like democracies, actually ban bots then maybe just maybe more users would have cared about them.
Begun the moderator PR campaign has
Anything to be profitable, I'll say