Remember that r/Art mod situation? Where an artist got perma-banned and had their history wiped for mentioning prints, then got hit with "I don't even know who the fuck you are" when they tried to appeal?
The backlash from that incident got loud enough that Reddit's CEO just announced they're limiting how many subreddits a single person can moderate. The whole "power-mod" problem finally hit a breaking point.
It's wild how fast this moved. The community pushed back hard enough that Reddit corporate actually did something about it instead of just letting it blow over. Whether this new limit will actually fix the problem or just be window dressing remains to be seen, but at least it's acknowledgment that yeah, the current system has issues.
Will the hard limit fix things or is it just a stopgap?
i can't remember what users but, there's a certain few reddit users that mod quite a few of the top subs
wonder if some of them will get removed
Damn that's a diabolical noticeable rant the mods threw in the internet
Honestly, good. I still worry about mod astro turfing from alt accounts, but if you're mod for multiple large subs you either have no life or you're not involved much in moderation.
I am also same here
You're wrong in assuming there's a connection. This limit was brought up in a mod sub months ago. Initially to get feedback and then a month or so later to announce the final plans. The recent announcement was just to tell mods what the timeline for the rollout is, more detail about the exemptions, and how you can check yourself if this affects you.
This had nothing to do with the mod(s) of art. There have been breakdowns between the mods and community before and they're not the first mods to be replaced in this way. It is just a lot more visible now because of the size of the sub and the accompanying drama that caught a lot of attention.
Besides that even if they were using this new rule, it wouldn't even have affected the mod that did most of the banning. The removals from the mod teams start with the subs with your lowest moderator activity. And the former mod team banned more than 5000 people last year, guaranteeing that they'll never be removed from there with this new limit.
This wasn’t due to the art stuff, they have been trialling this shit for like 4 months
Imo it was originally to make mass events like the subreddit blackout harder to organise.
Sounds like a good idea in theory, except that its threshold is monthly views. And if a sub gets mlre than 100k monthly views x number of times their mods will start getting asked to step down or be relegated to “alumni” which is a mod in name only, which feels really arbitrary
All this will cause is less transparency as mods will just use alts
Reddit started planning this months ago.
Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/modnews/comments/1mwnoq2/addressing_questions_on_moderation_limits/
Wait that's old news isn't it? The power mod limitations are from a month ago, way before the /art drama.
On December 3, Reddit CEO Steve Huffman announced to all users that they will be clamping down on the number of popular subreddits that moderators are able to control on their accounts.
“Reddit thrives when its communities are unique. That’s why we empower them to make their own rules (on top of ours) and grow the way they want to. But distinct communities require distinct leaders. A situation where someone moderates an unlimited number of massive communities is not that, which is why we’re making a few changes,” he posted.
“Namely, we’re limiting the number of high-traffic communities any single person can moderate. This is a major shift with a lot of nuance, so we’re not rushing.”
That has been in the works for months. https://www.reddit.com/r/modnews/comments/1mwnoq2/addressing_questions_on_moderation_limits/
You can register a second, third, fourth, or fifth account for free. This isnt going to fix anything. In fact itll just further obfuscate the situation since most of those power mods will start using multiple accounts, assuming they arent already doing that.
And then they lose all the subs they were moding due to the sockpuppeting getting them banned, sounds like a win to me.
In theory, thats what should happen. But lets be real, those super mods working for free saves Reddit a ton of money. They keep them around for a reason.
Naw, this was planned a while ago
No? This is not true. These changes have been in the works for months, with a year's long road map in place.
No idea why people are linking the two events.
No it didn't. Reddit announced this month's ago.
They wouldn’t remove the subreddit rapingwomen until they needed advertising. They don’t give a fuck.
Aren't the top 100 subs modded by like 5 people? I remember the list being released a while back
Gallowboob is over party!
But limiting the mod wouldn't have stopped this mod from abusing lol
how many can one moderate?