Someone here already has 12 subs on his own. We would be inspired to avoid the era of the power mods. Moding should involve an interest, not just collecting rings of infinity like it’s a gold rush. How can it be a good practice in the long term?

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  • DarkThoughts@kbin.social
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    I think Reddit’s /u/awkwardtheturtle is a prime example of why that is a good idea. It’s a toxic sexist supermod that made it in the news a few times already and never got punished for any of their comments towards other users & groups. These type of supermods also can act abusive across several communities. If they don’t like you, they can basically ban you in a lot of places.

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    I think a larger issue is what amounts to domain squatting.

    People either recreating popular subs or creating magazines of the type of content they would like to read and then not providing any themselves.

    People who come across a made yet empty mag can understandable be discouraged from contributing just for somebody else (who hasn’t shown commitment to the community) to be able to control it.

    Effectively it’s absentee landlordism to stake claim to names and wait for posts to come.

    Perhaps a better approach would be to delete magazines with no posts so that names would always be available to people who would use them.

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      Hard agree. Already seeing someone make 30+ magazines with 0 subscribers aside from themselves.

  • Kupo_Knight@kbin.social
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    I’d support a limit, the so called “supermods” were a detriment to Reddit overall. Not to mention, as others have stated" they end up being egoistical petty kings of their fiefs. If I see gallowboob on here I’ll be right upset.

  • Kichae@kbin.social
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    Only if it’s an admin-tuneable limit. Different instances will want to handle this differently.

  • PabloDiscobar@kbin.socialOP
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    Another example. All those subs have the same moderator, next to the name is the thread, comments, post and subscribers counters.

    mildlyinteresting 0 0 0 260

    explainlikeimfive 0 0 0 173

    interestingasfuck 0 0 0 374

    damnthatsinteresting 0 0 0 220

    LivestreamFail 0 0 0 16

    LifeProTips 0 0 3 327

    Tell me it’s a good sign.

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    I don’t think this is a problem right now. I’m in favour of deferring any decision.

    Right now, getting more magazines opened is more important than who mods them. Without content, there’s no users, and without users, there’s no content. If someone wants to create a dozen magazines and get the conversations kick-started, that’s a good thing.

    If moderation on a new magazine is shit, people will move to a new one. The same thing happened at Reddit. r/gaming was too memy, so people made r/games. You had two large subs in r/relationships and r/relationship_advice.

    The only issue in my mind has to do with continuity planning. What do we do in a few months when a hundred magazines have AWOL moderation? Who decides?

    • PabloDiscobar@kbin.socialOP
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      Check my other example, 8 subs open, zero content created. Those subs have not been open by someone with an interest on the subject, otherwise there would be content by now.

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    This website should do nothing like reddit mods are. They are loser special snowflakes who ban everyone they don’t like. Also take it easy with sitewide rules. Reddit rules on their own are very strict.

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      Anarchy is what you want? There are sites for that, bro, no need to fuck up this place if all you want is chaos.