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[–]magnora7[S] 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (15 children)

We'd like to avoid powermods too. Each person gets one sub a week, that ought to be enough. I don't want anyone taking it upon themselves to own 500 subs and try to categorize everything, that's one of the big problems reddit had, was the powermods, like you mentioned.

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

Exactly. Last thing this joint needs I reckon.

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

Good to hear. Save this somewhere being the Bossman: you have my word (for what that's worth from a random user) that my intentions are exactly as I stated; get the traffic up, get the niche subject subs going, and when/if the subjects are not aligned to my interests I'll pass the torch to a user that is active in said community and passionate about the subject itself.

Sound good?

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

Sounds good. Actions speak louder than words though, my friend :) Looking forward to the future

[–]JasonCarswell 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (6 children)

That's my thinking too.

[–]Greedeater 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (5 children)

Just pinged ya mate, subs live but the text is unreadable in grey on the background. I'm not a CSS bloke so I copy pasted it into a comment with said ping in case you hadn't backed it up.

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

What ping?

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

What ping?

I've got darker tiles now. Gonna whip up some banners.

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

Ach my bad, hangover from Eddit haha. When you type a username, they get the username mention I presumed it was the same here.

I made an announcement post and dropped your username in it, to get your attention.

[–]JasonCarswell 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

If you mean like /u/Greedeater - it works here too. But I didn't get a ping.

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

Nor I, just checked my inbox and saw your message as a direct reply... Unless it's a separate section of the app I gotta use?

Edit; my bad, me pinging you didn't work due to typo haha

[–]JasonCarswell 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

Besides censoring and power tripping bullies, what else is problematic about powermods?

I don't know why categorizing things is bad. I know this is the system that exists so far but as far as organizing and search ability for specific information (issues aside) Steemit strikes a pretty good balance with categories and 5 metatags, though many would like more tags, myself included.

[–]magnora7[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

Because a mod controls the flow of information. So if someone is modding tons and tons of subs, they can control a ton of the flow of information (including deleting a ton of stuff). This is one of the major problems reddit had. Just accept the fact that things won't be perfectly organized, because they were never intended to be. Hiding things on tiny subs just guarantees the information will get lost, so it's not benefitical if your purpose is to get the most people to see it.

We'll develop the crossposting system. Please just relax about it in the meantime.

[–]JasonCarswell 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Hiding things on tiny subs

Really?

Hiding things in a morass of chaos is the opposite.

My purpose is to make it accessible and useful, like most people. I don't think anyone intends to make a "tiny sub" that's never looked at, but honestly I'd rather have a quality tiny sub that is about that topic for people to find than have them aimlessly wander over generalized topics.

If there were more tiny subs then there'd also be less centralized pooling and the powermod thing issue might also be diminished.

But I'm not a Redditor, so what do I know. I have however, gleaned there's a balance between being too specific and too general and it's not always as obvious as you'd think.

I'm relaxed, though now I'm obviously a conspirator. Openly. If that's frowned upon too I can withdraw my friendly proposal to Greedeater.

One way you could shut me up, for a little while, is to keep me busy and let me do banners for /s/censorship, /s/piracy, and maybe some other subs of yours. Pick some for me. Throw in some ideas, collaborate, or just let me surprise you. If you like them or don't lemme know how I can improve them. I aim to please. If you like my (not quite finished) CSS you/I/we can add it or you can make me co-mod for a short while. After I'm done applying my graffiti you can un-co-mod me. Being mod is not in my field of interests.

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

Hiding things in a morass of chaos is the opposite.

Chaos is having tons of duplicate posts in the /new tab that look like spam, tbh. Just look at the page and how all the duplicates and triplicates make it look

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

That's what I thought back when I asked you about it.