Saidit.net - State of the website - 5/24/2018 - Updated comment score display, 'controversial' renamed to 'funny'

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[–]magnora7[S] 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (9 children)

Someone suggested this on reddit:

Why not make mod logs public by default. Make it so that mods have to leave a stickied comment with reason for removal for every removal, including comments.

[–]Kick 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

Transparency with moderation is essential in subs (what are they called here? /s/'s) that have a tight knit community or that need to have trustworthy mods due to a sub facilitating financial transactions.

I moderate a moderate sized drug community on reddit and everytime we remove a post we leave a comment as to why. We do this using macros from the toolbox, which is an amazing mod feature that also helps you keep track of certain users that may be causing problems or the like with notes that only the mods can see.

[–]magnora7[S] 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

They're just called subs here :)

That's interesting about the toolbox macros. Are those a RES feature or just something innate to the reddit mod interface?

[–]Kick 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

It is another chrome extension all on it's own and is super nice. I will PM you some screen shots of what it looks like in a 50k user sub and the tools it offers, I would just post it, but I don't want who I am on blast even though a ton of people know me and the subs I mod.

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

I think it's this. I hadn't heard of it either, thanks /u/Kick https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/moderator-toolbox-for-red/jhjpjhhkcbkmgdkahnckfboefnkgghpo?hl=en

https://www.reddit.com/r/toolbox/

https://github.com/toolbox-team/reddit-moderator-toolbox

[–][deleted] 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

I love it. We've got to solve the biased mod takeover problem somehow. I also like the idea of forced mod rotation for big subs.

[–]magnora7[S] 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

Oh that's a good idea, like term limits. Interesting.

[–][deleted] 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Yep term limits and some kind of easy way to hold a vote which bots can't easily game (must comment to vote, must be an active user for the vote to count, etc.). Maybe the election code automatically assigns new moderators too, to avoid the shenanigans that went on in r/conspiracy with their "algorithm".

[–]magnora7[S] 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Yeah mod elections are not good, perhaps we could have a lottery mod system? Or maybe instead of term limits we could have a way to vote mods out?

I like the idea of mod turnover (I think), but I'm not sure the best way to do it yet.

[–][deleted] 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Yeah a lottery would work. Voting mods out might be an even better solution than term limits, I like it.

I've seen a bunch of ideas that are replacements for mods, but not much about fixing bad actor mods within the reddit model. Hopefully we'll get big enough to need to worry about it.