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syncretic  ·  4347 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: I'm one dot away from filling up my first hub wheel.

    I'll bring this up again - your entire SFWPorn network is deliberately hostile to the average user.

Quite honestly, that's by design. There is a learning curve, a barrier to entry. If you want to submit in our network, you need to read the sidebar, read the FAQ, and even then, it's still largely subjective in a lot of cases which subreddit a picture "belongs in"... so users submit, they get their image removed, and most likely have a conversation with a mod about it. Usually several conversations until they get the hang of things.

The users who are hostile about it - who cares? No, seriously. I ban them and move on. There are two million redditors and only a few of them willing to put in the blood sweat and witchhunts necessary to be a good moderator. If you cuss out one of my mods because they asked you to post your image in a different subreddit, you are less than dirt to me. I've been through it too many times - we all have, really, any experienced moderator - that at this point, if the user isn't willing to play ball, they can go back to /r/pics for all I care.

The SFWPorn Network is designed to do two things - showcase pretty pictures, and breed moderators. If you never submit an image, like 99% of the userbase, you will be perfectly happy. When you cross that barrier into a submitter, and you do it frequently, the system is designed so that eventually, you will most likely become a network moderator... and it's very effective at it. Of course, not everyone wants the responsibility, and that's fine. The small class of users who want to submit things but don't want to read the rules or listen to the mods... they may as well not exist for all I care.

As you know well, I used to view reddit through rose-colored glasses. After almost two years of moderating, I don't anymore. Since the defaults have blown up, it seems like most redditors are crude, vulgar 14 year olds who would sooner call you a faggot than thank you for anything.