Last week Reddit proposed a program called Adopt-an-Admin where one of the suits joins your mod team to “build empathy” with the unpaid interns.
Just reading the details on this stuff is kind of fun, one of the only reasons I still go. r/modsupport, r/modnews, r/modhelp. The popcorn never really went away, it just evolves.
They’ve got insane persona non gratas blowing up their mod mail, moderator coups, their own posts get wacked by the automod. Fun stuff.
Adopt an admin has been a thing for a long time.
Basically they let moderators do the onboarding process for new admins for free.
I had a look behind the curtain, and admins have to do it on their free time, so they usually don’t show up.
The worst excuse ive seen from admins that joined but went radio silent was, that they expected communication happens on discord instead of the modmail.
Reddit is a through and through incompetent company, and it’s coming from the very top with spez. Admins that make decisions or speak up are getting replaced. The competent ones leave by themselves. The ones left are all scared and trying to please spez all day.
If you talk to them on camera, they all look like beaten dogs.
that’s actually pretty rich. I’m glad they leave these subs open and that there’s people who’ve seen how shitty it is inside. definitely alleviates my own angst for how bad it declined over the last decade
Popcorn evolves? Damn, evolution theory is getting out of hand.
