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So let me get this straight:
1. Massively over-reacting to the initial post. You were "worried" so rather than delete the comment, along with adding a temp ban until your worries were addressed, you ban him permanently.
2. You ignored the user trying to resolve the situation.
3. You float a bullshit excuse: It happened because you were having a bit of a rough patch at the time.
Boo fucking hoo. Leave your personal drama at the door. Didn't they ever teach you that at your first job? Or maybe, just maybe take a step back and make admin decisions with a clear head. You obviously have issues handling your responsibilities, and from the looks of things over the last few days that seems to be an institutional issue with Reddit Admins in general.
Some may say at least you addressed it in a forthright manner. I say it's shitty it takes this kind of shitstorm before we get issues addressed. Now you've essentially admitted incompetence, and yet YOU are the one to be Mod Advocate, adding responsibilities to someone who just stated they couldn't effectively deal with what's already on their plate? Yeah, this leaves me just a wee bit cynical.
Comment by [deleted] at 06/07/2015 at 22:19 UTC
42 upvotes, 0 direct replies
Well said. Why put someone in a position that has admitted they can't handle the responsibilities of the position. If i had a media company, last thing I would want for someone representing my company would a person that overreacts to a small issue, then blame their actions on personal life. After all that, it takes it going public before anything is done. if personal life gets in the way of doing your job, it's best to take a leave of absence until shits resolved.
Comment by [deleted] at 07/07/2015 at 02:26 UTC
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Leave your personal drama at the door. Didn't they ever teach you that at your first job?
Someone needs to tell my current coworkers this. I think this ethos is disappearing.
Comment by [deleted] at 06/07/2015 at 22:39 UTC
26 upvotes, 1 direct replies
could not have said it better myself. imagine floating this kind of excuse to ANY of your previous/current employers? yeah fucking right.
Comment by d0m1n4t0r at 07/07/2015 at 13:15 UTC
4 upvotes, 0 direct replies
You were "worried" so rather than delete the comment, along with adding a temp ban until your worries were addressed, you ban him permanently.
That is so fucking ridiculous when you think of it. And the excuses for that action...
Comment by Tsrdrum at 17/07/2015 at 00:52 UTC
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Boo fucking hoo. Leave your personal drama at the door.
To be fair, I'm pretty sure that the employee in question is a fleshy, bony, gray-matter-controlled human being. Human beings are inefficient, inconsistent, and above all ruled by their pesky emotions and personal lives.
This, however, applies to all human beings. I haven't met a single person in my life who can completely divorce their personal lives with their work lives. Maybe this is because, to the human being in question, it is **their** life, which consists of a steady stream of work and real life. They can try and not feel shitty, but as anyone with depression knows, this is easy to say to someone else, but very difficult to enact. Feeling a certain way will inevitably affect how you treat customers.
I think this speaks more to a problem with Reddit's rules regarding bans, and the technological implementation of those rules. Like, maybe they could be more clear when a person is banned, and have a better option for recourse.
Maybe someday we will have robot overlords to comb thousands of message board comments and remove harmful content. Until then we're gonna have to deal with the fact that human beings are, like, human.
tl;dr stop being a dick.
Comment by ActionWaction at 06/07/2015 at 21:55 UTC
0 upvotes, 0 direct replies
best mod evur