For example, people on Reddit asking redundant questions and give equally redundant or unhelpful answers.

Whenever every ‘What’s the worst show you’ve seen?’ is asked, you’ll get 10,000 “Kardashians” answers, which is just easy karma farming.

If someone posts in a community that’s geared for something like opinions, but someone elects to just go on a full scale rant instead.

  • andrew@lemmy.stuart.fun
    413·
    1 year ago

    Centralization of anything. Powermods shouldn’t be a thing, and major central instances are a bit sketchy too. No offense to ruud et al.

    • Decoy321@lemmy.world
      141·
      1 year ago

      The problem with power mods is that it’s a thankless job that people do for free. You’re not exactly getting a line of people out the door willing to take up the mantle, so a small group of power users end up taking on more and more.

      • KᑌᔕᕼIᗩ@lemmy.ml
        8·
        1 year ago

        You’re giving them too much credit. Although some are altruistic, many are greedy power hungry scabs who’s entire life revolves around holding whatever merger power they can over others.

        I stepped up once and made a sub for a small niche game I liked when none existed. The devs noticed, reached out me with free copies of the game to give away on the sub and everything. Then some power mods got wind of it, made their own subreddit for the game and completely overwhelmed my little sub though cross promotion via their other subs and with their army of alt accounts too.

        Most of them don’t want help, their cries are just to elicit sympathy and get free stuff out of it. Power mods are the scourge of Reddit.

        • Decoy321@lemmy.world
          1·
          1 year ago

          I’d wager it’s the other way around. Most of us are decent people, it’s just a few bad apples that make the rest of us look bad.

          And yes, I’ve been a mod for a couple decades on various platforms. On reddit I ran about a dozen smaller subs for years. Almost all the mods on my teams were decent people, only a single person was the exception.

          And the problems with reddit are more systemic than “hurry durr power mods r bad.” It’s like having a cough, then blaming your mouth for it. Don’t just look at the guy doing work for free, look at the people getting paid off the backs of free labor.

      • andrew@lemmy.stuart.fun
        61·
        1 year ago

        Well right. The answer is just to have GPT moderate everything in exchange for Bitcoin. /s

        You’re definitely right, though. It’s thankless but important and idk what the solution really is, but I think distribution is definitely better than centralization. More mods the merrier even if they’re just there as checks and balances. But that’s definitely getting into politics as well, which I’m not great at.

    • MeatAndSarcasmGuy@lemmy.world
      81·
      1 year ago

      I suspect powermods are more of a myth than reality, but I agree we should be concerned with any instance becoming the defacto site for Lemmy.

      I think the best way to avoid this is already in motion (though slowly), which is to have smaller topic instances which house the topic in its entirety and don’t have as many users (for example there is one for Star Trek and one for Android already). This way, regardless of your instance you still have access to the topic.

      That’s just my 2 cents, anyways.

        • MeatAndSarcasmGuy@lemmy.world
          4·
          1 year ago

          That’s quite interesting.

          To be honest, I was never active enough to encounter a power mod; but I suppose anyone could go overboard trying to protect their community (even if they wind up doing more harm than good). Without having encountered any power mods, it’s hard for me to say what percentage fell into that category.

          In your experience, did the level of power of the mod seem directly proportional to their level of overboardness/corruption?

          I apologize if the answer seems obvious. I keep hearing about the power mods, but since I’ve never seen one in action, I would certainly like to learn more.