someone on a subreddit said they had brain bleeding. i asked how it happened. a mod immediately removed it and said that it was an intrusive comment or some nonsense…i messaged them asking them to explain how, and i explained how i thought it would actually be beneficial for the readers if they decided to answer and that they didnt. they responded with some authoritarian nonsense which they actually later deleted. today i get this from them:
Yesterday, I told you:
please tell me that you are willing to back down, to follow our rules, and to take moderator direction in the future without endless and exhausting debate – or indeed without any debate at all. Otherwise, you will no longer be welcome at r/(removed)
Since you have not confirmed and are instead ignoring me, may I take this to mean that you no longer want to be part of r/(removed)?
i was tempted to reply “yes mistress”
this is sadly almost a step in the right direction cuz now they will ban you solely if they dont like your posts or other communities youre a part of.
they want you to go belly up and comply like they get off on it 😂.
i hope reddit crashes and burns hard lmao
Moderation as a skill involves many subskills in my opinion: critical thinking, empathy, taking on another perspective, restraint, etc.
The issue is that reddit showed lack of all these in the months following the API fallout. This led to many „real“ moderators leaving.
The people remaining have a moral code that allows them to ignore the things that happened because otherwise they would leave too (empathy), or they think they can fix it (critical thinking).
Thats why you end up with messages like this.
It’s the “no good cops because good cops either quit or become bad cops” problem.
A good point, but this kind of atrocious moderation has existed for many years. https://github.com/MaximilianKohler/Archive/wiki/Reddit
The main thing that changed recently is that the admins are now as capricious as mods. The admins don’t live up to a higher standard, they do whatever they want.
Probably not the space to ask this, but have you ever talked to a doctor about depression?
I never thought of it this what but I think you’re right. But what is it that lead you to believe there was a mod exodus after the API lockout.
I‘m a former reddit mod, I was part of the reddit mod community, I have discussed the topic at length with other mods, a lot of us have made new communities on lemmy. I‘d say thats how I got the idea.
All the mods that exited lol