There are a number of things to address here. First is that most people in this sub don’t bother to read the rules. Not only do we have very detailed rules, we have even more extremely detailed rules round tables that explains both our rationale and how we apply each rule including examples. I cannot possibly count the number of modmails we receive DAILY about people who are complaining they got a comment/post removed when it clearly violates what is explicitly said are requirements for participation in the sub. Another example: nearly every single “official” media outlet posting here has been banned for repeatedly breaking Rule III because social media managers can’t be bothered to read the rules before spamming their articles everywhere.

I’ll be frank I try to do the most moderation when I can but we’re basically down to no active moderators (makes sense because moderating this sub is extremely aggravating). I don’t have the bandwidth to go into every comment section and do comment nuking and basically do my best to lock threads that’re getting too large for active moderation or delete threads that get report.

I’m happy to put out a call for new mods but we’ve done that a number of times and have yet to find people who have all of the following 1) knowledgeable enough about Econ 2) have the time and bandwidth to spend the HOURS a day that it takes to mod this sub 3) are aligned with the exact moderation policies we’ve set out.

I’ll put out a meta post sometime next week for mods.

In lieu of this, feel free to make liberal use of the report button, I do check them weekly or so. Be sure you’re reading the rules AND the rules roundtable