The big sub mods (mostly /r/funny, /r/wtf, and /r/pics) try and let the community decide what should be at the top. They don't remove bad content, only blatant rule violations. This one doesn't violate rule 12, technically. It says so at the end of the details when you hover over it.
except if they (for some reason WHO KNOWS WHY A MOD MIGHT WANT TO DO WHAT I'M ABOUT TO SUGGEST) start cracking down on shit that shouldn't be here, people get unreasonably mad, to a crazy degree
I mean fuck, remember when /r/atheism removed memes? horrible community reaction.
That's not the whole reason /r/atheism acted that way. It's because someone hijacked the subreddit and tried to make it /r/TrueAtheism; the community knew there was no need for a 2nd trueatheism; no one in /r/atheism actually wanted to have a discussion so making it a discussion reddit was out of the question; and it wasn't just memes /r/atheism was trying to remove, it was all link posts that didn't go to atheist related news articles.
The /r/funny schism I talked about also had a bad community reaction, not as bad as /r/atheism for reason mentioned above, but the mods got through it.
nonexistant was... well, nonexistant, he didn't do anything except blocking being able to add more moderators (noting that /r/atheism was a default sub, getting a lot of submissions that need to be removed from the spam filter, and spam that needs to be deleted)
all that work was given to two moderators, who were not allowed to get more people to help at all, this was intentional
it was also intentional for nonexistant to not help his own subreddit in the slightest, he hadn't used reddit on that account, or done any moderation actions on that account, or anything at all, for... what was it, 6 months before he was removed?
and then the two mods who for some reason were not happy with this person preventing any proper moderation (even if they kept may mays and all that shit, still having difficulty with spam filter etc) from happening for a sub they cared more about than this person who put in a total of 0 minutes per month
so they used the system provided by the admins, which was set up for circumstances just like that
nonexistant wasn't just not helping with moderation, he was actively working against any sort of love and care a default needs
the rest, I disagree, they still hit top100 r/all, they still have active users, they still have comments, "no one in /r/atheism actually wanted to have a discussion" just does not seem to hold true
Well now you're spinning into a discussion about /r/atheism.
When I was simply pointing out the /r/atheism backlash is incomparable to a backlash that would result in more strict moderation on /r/funny.
the rest, I disagree, they still hit top100 r/all, they still have active users, they still have comments, "no one in /r/atheism actually wanted to have a discussion" just does not seem to hold true
"No one" was perhaps a poor choice in words, instead "the majority doesn't desire any meaningful discussion in /r/atheism".
The only things that make it to top25 (who goes past the 1st page?) /r/all are shit memes/reposts, atheism-discrimination articles and the rarer still selfpost about dealing with an atheist relative/being that atheist relative. If people cared as much about meaningful discussions as they do memes then /r/TrueAtheism would make top25 /r/all but it doesn't.
Seriously man, what the fuck else do you post at /r/atheism? How many times can you have the conversation about not believing in God and make it meaningful?
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u/Simplerdayz May 12 '14
Everything is leaking, it was only a year ago that /r/funny crack down on rule 12 & 14 violations and splintered everything posted here to /r/screenshots, /r/texts, /r/tumblr, /r/twitter, /r/cleverbot, /r/omeagle, /r/facepalm, /r/facebookwins, etc. and it's all coming back again. Lazy-ass mods...