u/999_Seth

two months ago a dude who's been noticing how active I was in the community says to me "this feels more like personal thing. i dont even think they deserve it. you're doing a hell of a job here man i appreciate it."

and he went on further, "You dont have to tell me about it. even though i quit squad long time ago, i still look at the sub time to time and i can see that you're always around here like a squad mate. very dedicated and consistent. i've been looking at this sub way before i made my own reddit account. yet i didnt even know you were a mod until maybe a couple of years ago. thats what i actually want to see as a whole squad community. yeah i know its impossible but it was kinda like that years ago. maybe its just me missing those days. so i really appreciate your attitude and honesty. squad was a hobby to me as well. but i dont belong to squad anymore. its not the same game to me but still cant completely move on.. the itch still there. thank you for your efforts again."

The mostly idle "top mod" did not always like the 'active moderation' approach I use, told me to use alts, and this morning just took me fully off the team after nearly three year with no warning or explanation whatsoever.

It's wild to me how many mods take this very social, very personal role, yet they never say anything, and everything they do is from behind a curtain. Some subs that probably makes sense for, but a small-to-medium community?

I think it's best to have a visible mod team who's actively participating in the discussions, and that's the hill I died on.

I see a ton of posts where people are just talking exactly like they do in medication commercials, and it doesn't make sense.

When you get over Crohn's, you typically forget about it. When you're hurting? that's when we hang out online.

Somehow that has completely seemed to flip over in recent years, and it ain't just a handful of people trying to wish their remission into happening - it's the vast majority.

Makes zero sense except as a marketing job for the most profitable field of medicine in history.

I really enjoy that weird little feature that gives us an AI-summary of the users who post and comment. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't, but I've always thought it was interesting. I remember seeing how it would give people different results on different subreddits.

I noticed today, comparing my summary from about a year ago to what it is now, and noticed the thing has gotten a little wordier.

It's gone from "Posts in r/Channel5ive discuss documentaries and hip-hop. Comments in r/squad are critical of game design. Other posts are unrelated."

and now it's much more colorful:

"Active moderator for r/Channel5ive and r/joinsquad. Contributes insightful, philosophical reflections on platform moderation and community management.

Engages in niche gaming and meme subreddits. Collaborative, tech-seeking, and community-focused."

Went from sounding like everyone I've met who's just like 'I don't know what he's on about' to like it's embellishing a linkin page for me. "philosophical reflections" is so cringe, I love it.

I don't mess around with AI anything that I know of, other than that and the algos that curate everything, so I'm not too familiar with what I'm seeing here. it's highly amusing though.

one of the subs I help run was talking about Reckless Ben Schneider, and a lot of the methods they describe sound a lot like crack-pot lone-wolf sovcit paper terrorism, but the folks having the discussion don't know terms like that and they're mostly cheering him on.

is there another more accurate legalese term for folks like Mr. Schneider?

Mod team here is redoing the user-flairs, cause frankly the ones we've got going are as old as Hunter Biden's dad

What do we need to include on that?

quotes, faces, landmarks?

and it would be extra good if y'all wanted to post any square image from the videos, we'll shrink them down to 128px and put them in the flairs

post flairs too, what are we missing?

the new mod here u/6nyh set it up so that the sub will start auto-assigning these to people who join the sub - if you want an auto-assigned flair early you can test this feature out by leaving and joining the sub real quick. it's real neat.

I'd like to get things set up here so that the auto mod assigns flair to people like the nerds are talking about doing here: https://www.reddit.com/r/ModSupport/comments/1uqwbnx/assign_random_user_flairs_to_unflaired_commenters/

none of us on the team know how to do that because - like most reddit mods - we're all total degenerates, felons, and habitual liars

also you see how there's little pictures in the flairs?

I have no idea how they did that. it was like that when I got here.

The mod team was formed about two and a half years ago, and when I look at the team health stats now it's like none of the other mods are interested in the sub anymore. ( r/joinsquad )

I've identified three people who have a really positive online presence, and two of them wrote back to me saying they'd like to be on the team.

Wrote a message on the mod-team "discord," nothing yet. Wrote a "mod discussion" in the mod mail, no response to that either.

Am doing this right? What's the next step I should take to try to get those new mods added on?

old reddit still has the "share link" button, but that option doesn't allow for writing anything in the post

and I am not seeing the options for link sharing here on new reddit

does this new input box do all that automatically some how, or is there something I need to do to trigger it?

SOLVED thanks to u/Mrtom987

>Copy the share link from youtube and when you make a post in reddit, put the link in the "Link" tab. There are several tabs for you to choose like Text/Pics/Videos/ Link /QnA, etc. You need to put the link in the Link tab and can choose to add some additional info in the little text below below and hit post.

probably the fastest anything from a video game has shown up there for me.

you guys starting to dream about Africa yet?

so I guess the way it works now is teams just stay exactly the same between matches

what I've been seeing happening is like any other large player count game the side that loses more players between matches starts off with a disadvantage that isn't entirely skill-based. in bellum this can be especially challenging it comes to dropping caches.

not sure how factions are decided - sometimes I end up on the same faction a couple matches in a row, but I don't do long enough sessions to have any idea how that works.

is it supposed to be this way now or is my system broke somehow?

loneliest class in the game, totally out of the loop on everything, feels like a practical joke.

can't do it.

I've told them to just block the guy, but this mysterious user just keeps reporting for no reason

I'd very much like their ability to make false reports taken away

I go to https://www.reddit.com/report every time and report it, and every morning he is still doing this.

These reports should be taken a lot more seriously. I don't expect much, but when I report a dozen instances of report-abuse I want something done about it.

A lot of real good super experienced mods overlook this one

On browser, if you go to a link like this, or replace "newmods" with the name of your sub, it will take you to a list of every comment coming through from newest to oldest https://www.reddit.com/r/NewMods/comments/

This is a supertool. On established subs you'll catch the wackiest things happening on old posts this way. On new subs you'll be able to check one page to see everything that has come through.

It's especially powerful for maintaining a presence in the subreddit you moderate.

This will take to you right to where the conversation is happening. If there's a fire to put out you'll see it before anyone else does, if there's a question in the wrong place you'll be there to answer it or redirect them on where to ask, if there's a really good comment you can be there to say "hey this would make a great post."

I'd be completely lost without it in the subreddits I help run.

Also if you can mention where you heard what you know that'd be super helpful.

I don't keep up with all the press and podcasts but I've always said I'd pre-order an actual book if they came out with one.