I read somewhere that most mods who do it out of love only last about a year or two at the most. I modded a small sub of 20k almost on my own for a year and then helped out for another year… and yeah I can’t stand Reddit anymore so I’m stepping down as mod. You really are exposed to the WORST excesses present in a community - even if it’s like 97% friendly, the tiny minority that are not will do everything possible to suck out your very soul.:-( It’s made me so defensive and cagey now even irl and I don’t want to be acting that way with my work colleagues.
IMPORTANT CAVEAT: that was Reddit, and the bar was significantly lower there - I hope people will accept mod positions here b/c these communities look just about like 100% different than there.
Totally!! I modded a few different “place” sub-reddits for really small places. We didn’t have anywhere near 20K in subs but I had a few death threats in DM’s over the years. It was like, “Bro, is it really that bad that your completely unrelated post (to this sub) got removed??!” Some of the users would track me down and basically stalk my account every time I made a post on a different sub just to harass me. It was funny in a really dark, weird, why take the time, way.
I read somewhere that most mods who do it out of love only last about a year or two at the most. I modded a small sub of 20k almost on my own for a year and then helped out for another year… and yeah I can’t stand Reddit anymore so I’m stepping down as mod. You really are exposed to the WORST excesses present in a community - even if it’s like 97% friendly, the tiny minority that are not will do everything possible to suck out your very soul.:-( It’s made me so defensive and cagey now even irl and I don’t want to be acting that way with my work colleagues.
IMPORTANT CAVEAT: that was Reddit, and the bar was significantly lower there - I hope people will accept mod positions here b/c these communities look just about like 100% different than there.
Totally!! I modded a few different “place” sub-reddits for really small places. We didn’t have anywhere near 20K in subs but I had a few death threats in DM’s over the years. It was like, “Bro, is it really that bad that your completely unrelated post (to this sub) got removed??!” Some of the users would track me down and basically stalk my account every time I made a post on a different sub just to harass me. It was funny in a really dark, weird, why take the time, way.