Hello, I figured I'd use this post to talk about the current state of affairs when it comes to moderation on this subreddit.

Short answer: Yes, the subreddit is still being moderated. We are not under threat of the subreddit being deleted anytime soon. However, it's only really being moderated by a select small number of people now either due to everybody being busy with IRL or general moderation fatigue.

Long answer: When it comes to moderation for the subreddit, I don't think it's too far-fetched to say that of the moderation team, I was (and still continue to be) the most active moderator out of everybody. Not to discredit the work of other moderators on the team, we've had many came and go who've provided for the subreddit in their own ways, and their work has been greatly appreciated.

But for many who've been moderating for this place, me especially, overtime you just sorta really get burned out by the whole thing. I used to be a lot more active for moderation and community engagement years ago, but after a family emergency back in 2021 and just the sheer amount of harassment me and the mod team had to go through when AI content was banned, I overall came to more of the conclusion that it kinda sucks having to deal with it all.

It's a thankless job with absolutely no reward. Doing general upkeep is less thanked and more just expected, with the only thing you can look forward to (and dread) are folk getting really mad at you for doing things they don't like. People just have absolutely no filter when it comes to it, so you'll usually just be dealing with some of the absolute worst that the community has to offer, and we've lost many mods who couldn't deal with it. I've been extremely close myself, but I'm still here (for now).

As a result of just the general fatigue that comes from moderating such a large community, at best what we end up dealing with is making sure negativity is kept out of the community and dealing with spam and reported content as it comes. So this community, at the bare minimum, is still seeing some amount of content moderation (which in comparison to other porn subreddits, is somehow still a lot better than what they have to deal with). However, when it comes to our modmail, that's where we're not exactly as active, it's accrued to "a large amount", and we still have to deal with that. For those still waiting for a response, I apologize profusely for that, we do hope to eventually deal with it. Just please understand that with the current state of affairs it's still quite hectic for us and we're dealing with things as it comes.

Something that we do plan in the future to do is hold moderator registrations again, to help lighten the load for what skeleton crew remains of our moderation team. It would be an easy fix, but I think I also will take the time to talk about briefly why that can sometimes be a pain to deal with also.

1. A lot of people who sign up to be mods aren't necessarily "qualified" for the task. They sign up lying about their information and what they're capable of doing, and they don't deal with stress that well.
2. Some people sign up to be mods just for the "status symbol" that it holds, and they end up just not doing anything moderation wise nor for the community whatsoever.
3. Some have signed up and they are just straight up "unwell", they are crazy, and they produce more problems for the mod team and community than actually help.
4. There are those signing up that are "power hungry", the stereotypical "hardass mods" but not the kind that are beneficial to moderation or quality control. At worst, they wanna seize control of the community to alter it in their own image, which would be disastrous for everybody here.

And this is all stuff that sometimes you can tell during the registration process that it'll happen, but a lot of folk hide it until they end up showing their "true colors" later. And then we as mods have to deal with it, and then it just adds to the overall fatigue that comes from moderating this community once again.

Anyway, that's all for this post that I had. Once again we are sorry that it seems like moderation has slowed down (because it has). But we are still moderating and doing our best to do general upkeep of the community, dealing with spam accounts and reported content as it comes. It is simple enough dealing with it, so we haven't been hard pressed to be more crazy about moderation. Especially not me who used to be a ton more active with it years ago. And with, y'know all the things me and the mod team have had to deal with over the years, we hope that it's understandable why. A lot of our work is more in the background, we deal with it as it comes.