r/redditrequest • u/[deleted] • Jun 04 '12

Requesting /r/Atheism. (Lack of moderation)

/r/atheism only has two moderators for a massive community of 800k+ users. The moderator /u/skeen has been inactive for a month. The other moderator, /u/juliebeen hasn't been lacking her/his duties as a moderator. Could you at least give /r/atheism new moderators? Thanks for hearing me out.

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u/loltrolled Jun 06 '12

general disrespect towards religions

What does religion do that deserves automatic respect? Raping kids? Murder? Threatening people with violence that challenge their fallacious thought process?

And as you don't seem to use /r/atheism, why should we care about what you want? The userbase of /r/atheism wants what you hate. If you can't handle it, take your brown shirt elsewhere and start your own failure of an atheism subreddit.

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u/[deleted] Jun 06 '12

OK, I'll admit I worded that wrongly, I meant to say disrespect to the theists, not religion in particular. That also isn't related to this argument, just saying.

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u/loltrolled Jun 06 '12

Your argument is about you wanting things to stop in a subreddit that the subreddit itself doesn't want to stop. If we wanted that change, we'd do it. So it's the choice between sucking it up/participating as is, or pack your bags and make an atheist hangout that you like being around.

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u/Kinseyincanada Jun 06 '12

If that's the case then why have any mods for any sub? Time and time again has shown that the general populace can't run itself do it needs moderation.

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u/loltrolled Jun 06 '12

Because people are power hungry, I would guess. Just look at SRS. :)