![]() ![]() Reddit also functions as the best independent product reviews site - my back owes plenty to /r/Mattress.īut as a news and politics site, it's basically dead. Nor did it have the special-interest boards (including pornography). Today there was a loud boom in my city and the first place I heard about it was the local subreddit. Reddit is now what Forumer used to be and a less reactionary NextDoor if you're in at least a medium-sized city. When Digg died, it was still primarily a news site, and the community was smaller and more cohesive. Reddit will never die like Digg did, but also it already has. I never read actual confirmation for this but I assume the position was named for the Soul Coughing song ![]() UPDATE: April 30, 2003: Lowtax did the IK contest this week, and instead of numbers he asked people to post states. Anyone who posts a duplicate number, a number that is not between 1 and 100, or posts in the IK thread but has not posted in FYAD in the last 24 hours is also banned for a week. ![]() The person who posted the number closest to the Loser King number is banned for a week. When the contest is over (Usually 20 minutes or so), the person who posted closest to the Idiot King number becomes the Idiot King for a week, with most of the powers of a moderator and a ceremonial title. Everyone who wants to enter the contest posts under that thread, and chooses a number between 1 and 100. The admin has already two numbers, one for the Idiot King and one for the Loser King. Once a week, she (or another admin) posts a thread. Fistgrrl, in her infinite wisdom, proposed the Idiot King contest. Others said that a moderator would ruin FYAD. When it started to become more popular, however, certain users did stuff that was just annoying (spamming huge images that broke the tables and made threads impossible to read, posting a billion threads, posting illegal porn, that sort of thing) so certain people called for some kind of moderation. That's kinda how FYAD used to do it with regular election of a new "Idiot King". The structure just doesn't scale since your dictator just can't see what all the mods are doing. and none of this really applies to the context of reddit, and especially not for the larger communities of millions of users. Lots of forums and whatnot slap a load of badges and medals on mods that gives the role an air of privilege that isn't deserved. In retrospect one other thing that should have been done would be to separate the mod identity from the community identity as a way of tempering the ego that sometimes causes issues. I think this made a difference compared to other communities that I saw around that time. Generally I handled this by throwing mod responsibilities as a burden of those that were generally already community contributors in other ways (devs, etc) and they seemed mature enough. Additionally, on a gaming forum, the general age and maturity of these applicants leaves much to be desired. Maybe 100% of people that "apply" or show any desire to be a mod are mostly just thirsty for some of that banhammer power. The other thing is that mod selection is really, really difficult. This is how I ran thing until I didn't have time any more, at which point things deteriorated (not in some dramatic way, mind you.) One thing, and alluding to the other reply, is the "benevolent dictator", they need to be keeping the mods in shape - not doing any moderating themselves, but to keep them from running amok. ![]() I certainly think it's not a simple thing to solve. ![]()
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