Acquistion of a dead subsaidit

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[–]magnora7 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (9 children)

Subs being "dead" has nothing to do with the moderation team, and everything to do with if people post there or not. I've seen more subs killed by over-active mods, than lack of mods

[–]roseata 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (8 children)

It most certainly has to do with moderation. Christians for example, don't want a sub that atheists can start posting porn to to spite them, and without moderators, that will happen.

[–]magnora7 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (7 children)

Porn is against site rules, so no that won't happen

[–]roseata 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (6 children)

If it is not porn, it will be something. With no moderation, birgading here will be at all time high.

[–]magnora7 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (5 children)

Mods aren't the only ones who can stop brigading

[–]roseata 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

Yes they are.

[–]magnora7 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

No.

Admins can also stop brigading. Also users can have a big impact with their votes and comments

[–]roseata 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Users shouldn't have to deal with it and if they had a choice of not dealing with it by going somewhere else they will. One can't expect administrators to moderate subs either to the level that's needed. It's barely possible to moderate one sub, let alone every sub.

[–]magnora7 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Perhaps at some scale, yes. It's been working fine for 2 years on saidit though.

But if moderators are needed they can be found. People who go out of their way to acquire moderator positions usually aren't doing so with the best of motives

[–]roseata 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Saidit is still small scale though and is attracting the first wave of a very specific subset of people. If you want to expand beyond disillusioned /r/news and /r/politics redditors though, the people want their echo chambers. For example, the first thing I looked for when I came here was /r/Christianity and I immediately noticed it was dead with no hope of it ever becoming anything more than a wasteland.