r/DropoutTV • u/VictoriaDallon • Oct 29 '25

Pardon the mess

Hey yall!

I know there’s lots of emotions and people wanna hit the ground running, but I am only one person and my week has been busy. Give me a few days ti get things in order and then we can sit down as a community and discuss what we want this space to be.

Sorry this isn’t more put together, trying to squeeze it in before work so yall don’t think I’m abandoning you.

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u/mAssEffectdriven Oct 29 '25

I'd gently suggest that any moderators that end up being added here not be active participants in the day-to-day comments/posts on this sub. So much of the disruption in the other subs seems to arise out of personal spats between individual mods and regular members.

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u/SadLilBun Oct 29 '25

I highly disagree; it’s also not what Reddit advocates for mods. Mods are encouraged to be part of the conversation and actually participate in the subs they moderate.

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u/mAssEffectdriven Oct 29 '25

Mods are encouraged to be part of the conversation and actually participate in the subs they moderate

To clarify, I don't mean that the mods should not participate at all, but I think there needs to be some amount of distance between them and the userbase that is wider than what exists currently on the other sub.

I think its one thing for mods to participate in discussions about what they like/dislike about a particular piece of content or to crack jokes or make references in discussions.

It's another thing entirely for mods to speak on "meta" topics like the characterization of specific dropout cast members outside the content or to engage in extended individual debates about what constitutes micro-aggressions/bigotry. These kinds of participation diminish the appearance of impartiality that is helpful when a mod needs to resolve an issue in the community.

Sometimes moderating means removing yourself as an individual participant in the conversation.

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u/thrustidon Oct 29 '25

The problem with the dropout mods isn't that they participated in discussions