"El Psy Kongroo!" Hearthstone Moderator
"El Psy Kongroo!" Hearthstone Moderator
"El Psy Kongroo!" Hearthstone Moderator
"El Psy Kongroo!" Hearthstone Moderator
Well, I just got extra confirmation that Reddit and most internet places are a shithole. I don't really understand why you'd create a community that claims to be about high-effort discussion and then not punish shitposting. Meh, whatever.
The problem is they're setup in a way that downvotes are only supposed to be used for posts that don't contribute - shitposting, trolling, whatever - but instead people use it as a "disagree" button, so even if someone makes a really good case for a dissenting opinion, it'll just get bombed and buried. It's actually an interesting thing to study, and people have found a lot of ways of spoofing systems like that, which can be important if it comes to getting something of yours seen (for ad revenue etc.)
In my case I just assumed all of the mods for the big, default subreddits were all cut from the same cloth. Most of them seem to be pretty mature and level-headed, but the mods I appealed to in one of the other big defaults were pretty damned childish. Oh well.
"El Psy Kongroo!" Hearthstone Moderator