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Those people don't make good mods. They powertrip and can't deal with people who have seen daylight lately. See /r/subredditcancer (be warned, there's plenty of anti-pao pitchforks there)
You're pretending getting drowned in a sea of garbage is a specialization issue. I'm saying 90 posts of blogspam vs my link to some actual journalism on the same news event as all 90. Then there's 1000 reposts or blogspams of stuff already posted. If your sub is high up enough, you can't count on your regular users paying attention enough to vote it right. You've got mods and the knights of new.
The go to a new subreddit thing only works in a few instances. First off, if I'm going to create a new sub, why would I do it here where half my subs turned to garbage because the mods left? Second, long before all this, I've been in a half-dozen+ subs that went into the toilet and only 2 managed to create new subs that worked. The rest I left to go to a dead sub. And that's not counting the defaults that I unsubscribe to as soon as they get promoted, because when 8M people get subscribed to a sub, it takes an excellent team to keep the sub from turning to garbage. Only 3 have succeeded, IMO.
The rest of your post I'm not reading because it has nothing to do with my earlier response to your question. I volunteered to provide a possible answer to your question, not give you somewhere to stick your pitchfork.
Comment by HbeePtusF at 07/07/2015 at 12:35 UTC
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Lol pitchfork k. I'm saying the pitchforks are mainly for drama, not by any substanstive threat to the system. OC (comments, links, photos, posts) are not in *any* danger of leaving because of any of this. This would be relevant.
I know mods are an important element to the system, but at the same time, you can't say there's a shortage of mods willing to do the work. Chance to govern thousands or millions of people -- that draw trumps this scale of drama any day. We could have the admins drop all communication with mods and nothing would happen (where would these mods go to govern such large communities?) OC and consumers just are not directly effected in any realistic way. Reddit is way too adaptive. It is robust, and this is coming from someone who wants to see this burn.
People are upset that this apology is just words. But this whole issue is just words. It literally doesn't matter to Reddit as a system.