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View submission: /r/xkcd kerfuffle megathread
You guys should add /U/Wyboth as a mod, he earned it!
Comment by Wyboth at 01/02/2014 at 17:47 UTC
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I messaged /u/mattster42 about it. Here was my message:
A few /r/xkcdcomic users have been asking for me to be modded in /r/xkcdcomic. I'm willing and able to be a moderator, but it looks like you already have a competent mod team. They seemed to imply that I deserved to be modded because of the work I put in on /r/xkcd, or the work I did promoting /r/xkcdcomic, or as a condolence present for being pissed on by the current /r/xkcd mod team. I wanted to be clear that I don't expect anything in return for all of that. Since you hadn't replied to any of those comments, you either hadn't seen them, or you were politely declining. I was just wondering which reason it was.
He replied:
Hey Wyboth!
At this point, for its size, I honestly believe that /r/xkcdcomic has a sufficient number of moderators. Between the three of us and the bot, everything should run fairly smoothly.
I don't see a subreddit related to xkcd as one that would have to be heavily moderated. Discussion happens in a fairly routine pattern, and, recent events notwithstanding, discussion is rarely controversial.
I don't hold any hope that the /r/xkcd situation will ever be corrected, and /r/xkcdcomic now has enough members to be a self-sustained community. Indeed, many of the posts have an amount and quality of discussion that beats out the original. Therefore, the best course of action is to move on and be our own community.
Unfortunately, one of the catalysts in the debate has been a feud between a couple different groups. I admit I knew nothing of these conflicts before this all happened. Unfortunately, it seems that soccer and the other mods believe you to be in the SRS community, as do some other SRS users.
Whether or not that's true, I believe that the absolute worst thing that can happen is for one sub to be the "SRS" xkcd sub, and the other one the sub for holocaust deniers and racists. I honestly don't believe you'd try to turn this sub into an SRS sub, I feel like appointing you as a mod, even if we needed the extra help, would be claimed as a victory by the SRS community and would turn this sub into something its not. I feel like it's best for this sub to be perceived as neutral in every way possible.
In short, thank you so much for what you've one for the xkcd community. If we expand to the point where additional moderators become a necessity, I'm sure you'll be hearing from me. Cheers!
-mattster42
I understand his reasons, and I'm perfectly fine with this. Mattster, if you're reading this and you didn't want that PM posted, feel free to remove it.
Comment by tigger04 at 30/01/2014 at 23:32 UTC
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i'll second that!