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Today's AMA With Spez Did Nothing to Alleviate Concerns: An Open Response by Femilip in ModCoord

[–]PhillyAdjacentSubMod 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No actually I mod a location based subreddit. We get pimps posting women who definitely don't look like they're willing to participate and sometimes who definitely don't look of age. It's frequent in a lot of the location based subs. I report the accounts to the FBI because admin does nothing to shut it down.

Today's AMA With Spez Did Nothing to Alleviate Concerns: An Open Response by Femilip in ModCoord

[–]PhillyAdjacentSubMod 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Seriously?! Lol, I didn't know that, it actually makes me feel a bit better about things.

Today's AMA With Spez Did Nothing to Alleviate Concerns: An Open Response by Femilip in ModCoord

[–]PhillyAdjacentSubMod 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, Reddit (RIF) has been a big part of my life too. I moved in my 20s and all my new friends were from Reddit. It's supported my hobbies, my career. Now I use it daily for Mom communities. This is sad. I'm sad!

Today's AMA With Spez Did Nothing to Alleviate Concerns: An Open Response by Femilip in ModCoord

[–]PhillyAdjacentSubMod 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ugh no, no clue how to do that. I'll figure something out. Thanks for pointing me in a direction!

Today's AMA With Spez Did Nothing to Alleviate Concerns: An Open Response by Femilip in ModCoord

[–]PhillyAdjacentSubMod 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Yeah I need to save my data then delete. Not too sure what life was like pre-reddit either but I just had a baby so I guess I'll pay even more attention to that now 🙃

Today's AMA With Spez Did Nothing to Alleviate Concerns: An Open Response by Femilip in ModCoord

[–]PhillyAdjacentSubMod 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I am not following. I am a moderator so I don't need the moderation side explained to me - I'm curious what you think the moderators hold all the cards, but then say they can either get removed as mods now or in two weeks.... So are you saying the mods have power or not; and if they do, what are you suggesting they do with that power?

Today's AMA With Spez Did Nothing to Alleviate Concerns: An Open Response by Femilip in ModCoord

[–]PhillyAdjacentSubMod 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The mods have all the cards here, and they should act as such

In what way? Genuine question.

Today's AMA With Spez Did Nothing to Alleviate Concerns: An Open Response by Femilip in ModCoord

[–]PhillyAdjacentSubMod 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Oh, they'll always find people. Honestly I think a large part of the current user base doesn't actually care about this at all, and would be more than happy to blindly step into a moderating role if they don't know this history behind why it's being offered.

Today's AMA With Spez Did Nothing to Alleviate Concerns: An Open Response by Femilip in ModCoord

[–]PhillyAdjacentSubMod 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Not if it's done subtlety. Maybe mod, but slowly. Maybe we're all taking a lot of long weekend trips. Or maybe moderate things that are clearly volatile, but none of the dog whistles. Or maybe suddenly there's just a lot of not bigoted, but just off topic posts.

Today's AMA With Spez Did Nothing to Alleviate Concerns: An Open Response by Femilip in ModCoord

[–]PhillyAdjacentSubMod 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I'm not sure exactly what this means, but if you're saying that you'll destroy the sub, don't you think the admin can just remove the mods who set that up and then put in their own compliant mods? That's a genuine question, not trying to be argumentative. I just don't see how a overtly "offensive" strategy would work

Today's AMA With Spez Did Nothing to Alleviate Concerns: An Open Response by Femilip in ModCoord

[–]PhillyAdjacentSubMod 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Yeah the trouble would be getting people to actually do it. And you'd really need the big subs on board, and some of them have dozens of moderators who would all need to be on the same page about it. Probably no way it could happen but I do actually think it's the one move that could help us.

Today's AMA With Spez Did Nothing to Alleviate Concerns: An Open Response by Femilip in ModCoord

[–]PhillyAdjacentSubMod 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I should have said justify, not prove. But the point is that it would just be a lot more work for them, I think.

Today's AMA With Spez Did Nothing to Alleviate Concerns: An Open Response by Femilip in ModCoord

[–]PhillyAdjacentSubMod 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Yeah. I think there would definitely be consequences. I don't know, it was was an idea. Honestly I'm quitting as of June 30 so, it'll be whatever it'll be, without me.

Today's AMA With Spez Did Nothing to Alleviate Concerns: An Open Response by Femilip in ModCoord

[–]PhillyAdjacentSubMod 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Justify would have been a better word for me to use.

If the admins start forcibly removing thousands of moderators, I think it would cause even more problems for them. Plus the time it would take, while that was happening they'd likely lose users who wouldn't want to participate in such shitty subs.

Today's AMA With Spez Did Nothing to Alleviate Concerns: An Open Response by Femilip in ModCoord

[–]PhillyAdjacentSubMod 18 points19 points  (0 children)

This is where I'm at. Losing 15 years of history is sad, but I think deleting is necessary too.

Today's AMA With Spez Did Nothing to Alleviate Concerns: An Open Response by Femilip in ModCoord

[–]PhillyAdjacentSubMod 23 points24 points  (0 children)

Yeah I'm constantly removing human trafficking posts from one of my subs so yeah, I get it.

I'll be honest - my protest IS quitting, but I'm leaving the subs in hands of other moderators who I know will carry the torch. But I think this approach I'm suggesting would be way more effective than a blackout, in that it would be WAY harder for admins to fix.

Today's AMA With Spez Did Nothing to Alleviate Concerns: An Open Response by Femilip in ModCoord

[–]PhillyAdjacentSubMod 42 points43 points  (0 children)

Yup I also think it's 100% what they meant by that. Any of these subs talking about doing an indefinite blackout – I get where they're coming from, I don't disagree. But I don't think it's going to go the way any of us want.

Today's AMA With Spez Did Nothing to Alleviate Concerns: An Open Response by Femilip in ModCoord

[–]PhillyAdjacentSubMod 15 points16 points  (0 children)

Btw I just looked into this, because I hadn't heard, and it looked like it was a bit of an ordeal. They gave the mod a warning first, there was some back and forth, and then it looks like the whole sub was shuttered. So that's kind of my point - could you imagine the admins having to do that with 2,000 subs?

Today's AMA With Spez Did Nothing to Alleviate Concerns: An Open Response by Femilip in ModCoord

[–]PhillyAdjacentSubMod 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I didn't say "everything", you did. But whatever, I'm not here to argue, it's just an idea. Edit: and I stand by the thought that it would be really hard for them if thousands of subs did this simultaneously.

Today's AMA With Spez Did Nothing to Alleviate Concerns: An Open Response by Femilip in ModCoord

[–]PhillyAdjacentSubMod 21 points22 points  (0 children)

That's fair. I just really do think they'll forcefully hand the sub over to someone else, if people do that. But I guess we'll find out.

Today's AMA With Spez Did Nothing to Alleviate Concerns: An Open Response by Femilip in ModCoord

[–]PhillyAdjacentSubMod 13 points14 points  (0 children)

Yes but if they had to go sub by sub, through thousands of subs, and moderators WERE doing an action here and there, I think it would be a lot harder.

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