Recently I quit a sub as a moderator as I could not convince other mods that some of the things that some of the veteran mods of that sub were doing was not right.
What they were doing was basically this:
suppose there is a content that has potential to go viral (e.g. like an incredible win in a sports game). A regular user posted the content first, their content broke no rule at all. But some of the veteran mods also want to post the same content. Hence they did not approve that post in the queue from that user and themselves posted the same content, in many instances, the exact same content. These mods have like insane karma and after knowing how they moderate, it was clear how they got that.
I tried reasoning with other mods but basically their argument was that sometimes these mods improve upon the content (which was not exactly true as even with the improvements, both the content were more or less the same) and that there's a rule that mods can approve/remove posts on their own discretion. I also had gotten bored of that sub, so I found it better to just quit the sub rather than reasoning with them.
Now I'm running my own sub and they are quite good. I just want to know what I can do to ensure that such things don't happen with my sub by the new mods I recruit.