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Comment by Deucer22 at 16/07/2015 at 21:17 UTC
71 upvotes, 1 direct replies
This is a great question. I mod a smaller sub with two other active moderators. We took it over from a couple of other users who were inactive for over a year. They wouldn't relinquish the top mod spots, even though we and had been building and maintaining it without their help. It was taken down by inactive mods during the blackout and not brought back up for around a week, probably because they forgot. The users (predictably) freaked out on the active team of mods. What a mess.
Comment by Geloni at 16/07/2015 at 21:02 UTC
187 upvotes, 3 direct replies
It's crazy to see people that are mods of 200+ subreddits, but that seems to be pretty common. How is that even possible? In no way could they ever efficiently moderate all of those communities.
Comment by thund3rstruck at 16/07/2015 at 21:22 UTC
9 upvotes, 0 direct replies
This is a big concern for me. I'm the most active moderator on my subreddit and have been for a year - the top mod is not involved in the community in any way.
Comment by [deleted] at 16/07/2015 at 20:54 UTC
14 upvotes, 2 direct replies
Do you have any plans to remove all the subreddit squatters?
Of course not - that would hurt SRS.
Comment by CuilRunnings at 16/07/2015 at 21:23 UTC
-4 upvotes, 1 direct replies
I find it very unsettling that I've put 2 years of volunteer work into building my community and yet it can all be undone on a whim because there are squatters who outrank me in the mod list.
Make a new subreddit and have the old one point to the new one.
