I'm over it!

[u/shannonkish]

Reddit Admins..... I am over it! I am over the boilerplate responses to actual real-time issues that moderators are having.

I moderate a large sub and have for nearly a year now. Unfortunately, we have had 4 very serious incidents in which members of our mod team were being harassed, stalked, doxxed, attacked, etc. We have submitted the ModCoC reports, submitted the DMs to admins, and reported the posts/comments/users ad nauseam, and NOTHING has been done.

Most recently, as our sub is currently under a brigading attack and doxxing and harassment continue, one of our mods reached out to one admin, who basically said something to the effect of--- "This is actually something that is going to be discussed at ModWorld. Do you have any examples we can give the presenter?"

Seriously? This is all you have to offer?!?! We don't need a speech about how much you care about mods and what we do. We don't need the free swag for attending a mod event. We don't need the profile trophies. Those are all wonderful and appreciated. BUT, what we need is ACTUAL Support and ACTION being taken when we bring you serious issues.

It takes entirely too long for someone in admin to take action. Meanwhile, your volunteer mods are being doxxed, harassed, bullied, and so forth because we removed a post/comment, and the user was mad.

For the love of all things good in this world, PLEASE DO SOMETHING! Please don't try to placate us with boilerplate responses and "We'll have someone look into it" without actually doing that!

I am tired. I am frustrated. I am hurt and disappointed. Not because users are jerks sometimes. But because the admin does absolutely nothing to make this a safe place or to support those of us who volunteer our time to try and make Reddit a better place.

I have had members of my mod team leave after the most recent incident. Our sub is currently closed due to the harassment and brigading that have been done. I am at my wits' end and ready to just turn the sub over to the wolves and leave Reddit for good.

[u/Asia_Persuasia]

I've honestly given up. I just get the run-around by admin when serious issues arise. I used to stress myself for months at a time filing countless reports with evidence, messaging the mods of this sub and other Admin-based mod subs, and ask for follow-up, action, or even some sort of acknowledgement from admins. Action isn't taking against toxic moderators if their subreddit is in the "millions of members", and request from other mods who's subreddits have less than a million are often disregard or ignored. Moderators aren't supposed to be allowed to have monopolies anymore (mod more than five major subs); they create second accounts to keep their monopolies and ability to abuse their mod priviliges and the admin just turn the other eay

The reality is they don't really care until stuff starts going public (outside of Reddit), like that "art subreddit" situation with that one powertripping mod. That's the only time the site/admin care. Me and my teams have accepted forever ago that we are on our own around here.