Why Lemmy's Piracy Community Outshines r/Piracy? (lemmy.fmhy.ml)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by InternetPirate@lemmy.fmhy.ml to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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r/Piracy on Reddit is more of a meme subreddit. I've never seen any actual discussion or valuable information as I do on this community. Why is that?

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[-] lemann@lemmy.one 4 points 1 year ago

If the users grow, but the mods do not, and it becomes too much for the mods to handle, it will fall. It’s easy logic.

This might be a problem for shititjustworks. Where lemmyworld has been expanding their mod team and admins, I haven't seen posts of shititjustworks doing the same. They seem to be struggling with a subset of exploding-heads users posting horrid things and signing up under new accounts when banned, which doesn't help.

[-] gjghkk@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 year ago

Also, some might suggest bots, and scripts to auto-remove comments and posts to help for moderation. While this might indeed help, there still needs increase in mods eventually if the userbase grows, but maybe less more than it is needed without any scripts.

Think like this: You need to go from point A to point B. You can do it walking, you can use a bicycle, or you can use a car. All of them needs energy (moderators). Some more than others. If you use tools, you need less, but still you need to use it. And if the distance of these two points become bigger, you need more energy, but of course a car helps tremendously, but still you need to focus on the car and use energy.

So a 1 person moderators with all the tools, bots and filters won't help much if there is an user-base of millions in the community.