Comment on My Thoughts on the Fosstodon Drama | Kev Quirk
LandedGentry@lemmy.zip 9 hours agoI moderated a 2mill person sub on the shithole site until I left over the API fiasco. I was never paid, I was never interviewed, I received nothing. I banned maybe 10 people over 3 years. Only a few friends know I even did it and it’s because it organically came up during the api shit.
I legitimately did it because I had been a member of the community for years and really felt passionate about keeping its standards and making sure it remained safe for the community. I am not amazing, I am not unusual. Most mods on some level do it because they want to see a community thrive. The terrible ones exist, there are even a lot of them. But as you can imagine, people don’t notice the quiet ones who just do their thing and tend to it the same way they tend to a garden.
rglullis@communick.news 9 hours ago
Would you do it for a community you didn’t care about?
Do you think that doing something because you “really felt passionate about it” is “selfless”?
LandedGentry@lemmy.zip 9 hours ago
I’m not sure if you responded before I added my last paragraph. Have you read it?
rglullis@communick.news 8 hours ago
No, I missed it before.
My “axe to grind” is not against mods. My “axe to grind” is against Small Fedi. I can elaborate more later if you, but now I need to get back to work…
LandedGentry@lemmy.zip 8 hours ago
I think ultimately you’re arguing against something I’m not really arguing for. Again, any mod who thinks that this is some 100% purely altruistic endeavor is sniffing their own farts and is definitely an incredibly thin sliver of the modding population. If you want to keep boiling things down then you can ultimately reduce any active charity to some degree of selfishness and say that there is no truly altruistic action and therefore your final conclusion is “mods are ultimately selfish and putting up altruistic window dressing,” which as long as you can say “it’s never 100% selfless” means you can’t ever be wrong rhetorically. That’s a philosophy discussion, not a practical discussion of what motivates people to become moderators.