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Comment by drak0n1c | Hacker News Reader

For context, the admin logs show that the Reddit Corporate Admins only bothered to remove on average one comment per few days. It wasn't a deluge. The Oregon post is an anomalous casus belli.

https://twitter.com/thedonaldreddit/status/11439265704086446...

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A regular subreddit would see almost no admin interaction, so if the admins are needing to correct failing moderation every couple of days that's a very bad sign. I helped moderate a large subreddit teaching people how to buy drugs on the darknet and we had zero admin interactions despite being very close to the line of what was allowed because we were aggressive with our moderation. The subreddit only ended up being banned after SESTA/FOSTA passed.

Edit: It's important to note that there isn't a report function that bypasses subreddit moderators, unless you directly message the admins. So if the reddit admins are having to step in on reports it means that the moderators are ignoring them, either deliberately or due to a poorly managed moderation team (not enough members or time zone coverage).

It's understandable that an engaged, political subreddit revolving around a controversial figure requires more admin oversight.

Isn't that the job of the mods though? Admins are not moderators.

Over the same period the mods handled 83,000 cases.

You mean the_donald mods handled 83k cases?

Yes

It should require zero admin oversight. The moderators should ensure that it follows the reddit rules and there will be nothing for the admins to intervene about. In this case the moderators weren't even following the subreddit rules that they had created which say "No Threats towards Government Officials".

> only bothered to remove on average one comment per few days

Does this effectively measure the incoming complaints/requests to reddit admins? If those went up, but their admins' capability to moderate was already saturated maybe the rate of comments removed would stay the same.

Likely not given that the sub's custom CSS had all but removed the report and downvote links.

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