I was a digg power user then transitioned to reddit when that all went to shit and my intended grift of making money through selling digg visibility disappeared.

I've run dozens of subreddits and still do although incredibly lazily like 99% of legacy reddit mods that have been in their positions for way too long.

I started the use of subreddits as hashtags via spamming /r/hailcorporate in response to every shill post on the site.

I even got a job in the game industry as an internet janitor too and have worked with EA, Ubi, Paradox, Sega and others. I firmly believe in that title for any online moderation and community management, all we do is keep things clean for everyone to enjoy an online space and ego in online moderation is a serious problem.

Ask me anything

    • Awoo [she/her]M
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      4 years ago

      Are they still active elsewhere on the site? If they're active on the site it is basically impossible, if they're inactive for more than 30days you can do /r/redditrequest and the admins will hand over the subreddit.

      This is the reason hundreds of subs have legacy mods that have been there for years who have lost interest in moderating and advancing the subreddit but can't be removed. They won't leave because they like the bragging rights of modding when they do fuck all anymore. They might have done something in the past, even been good, but have since just stopped for lack of interest.

        • Awoo [she/her]M
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          4 years ago

          This used to cause community uproar in the old days of the site and the admins actively encouraged "make a new subreddit" and having mass exoduses from one subreddit to another.

          Over time this stopped getting encouraged and then all the reddit shit went down with witchhunts of people on other sites and doxxing. After that happened reddit said "no witchhunting" as a sitewide policy which was intended to only really be about doxxing and attacking people on other sites or real life, subreddits however took this policy and blanket applied it to anything and everything -- this included complaining about moderators on any subreddit which got deemed "witchhunting".

          The result of these policy changes without guiding the mis-implementation of them by modteams was the entrenchment of mods and subreddits that can never be complained about and basically making it impossible for any new community to replace any existing community.