One of the oldest mods (who isn't even modding that much these days, it's mostly another one single person, poor them btw) replied with the statement in the title.
Always the inactive ancient that prevent improvement and course correction.
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It's not a competition :/
Indeed :-/
Absolutely :\
But Reddit is keeping score! Number go up or no dopamine.
The objective is to help newcomers to the city integrate
That's the objective you've projected into the subreddit and its moderation team.
Their actions make it clear that their objective is this weird capitalist "growth at any cost" mentality that permeates the modern influencer culture online today. They resent competition because they don't want to have to try.
I'm not so sure.
There were discussions a while ago about splitting the sub in two communities: the main one, and then a "new comers" one, for where people could ask regular new comers questions. There was some push for the community, as the sub was becoming more and more a "what are the best neighborhoods" set of questions every week.
That one mod (I think it was them, not sure, but anyway, it's not important) where against it, because it would "fragment the community". From a pure growth perspective, creating another community where people would also come was beneficial to them (as they would mod both), but I guess they were just reluctant to change. To me it's more this than the growth mindset that pushes them to make this kind of decisions.
capitalist
Still so weird that people work for a Nasdaq company for free.
I mod here a few communities on Lemmy, because I know everybody, from the devs to the admins to the app devs, is a volunteer. Giving my free time to work for a company that has shareholders seems so strange.
I don't care for proprietary platforms and supporting them, but a good mod is always an invisible mod. My personal opinions are irrelevant as a mod. Mods are community janitors in service to said community. If the community moves in the direction of another source or platform and a mod stands in the way of that, the mod is the problem that should be addressed and removed. It is one of reddit's and link aggregators' biggest flaws. There is a massive blind spot where the membership and momentum of established communities are neglected as irrelevant, with "start a new community" as the only effective solution to bad root mods. Admin do not seem like a very effective governance system for the nuances involved in specific niche communities, but I am quite naïve about the activities of admin on various platforms like reddit. In my experience they were absent when a terrible mod violated reddit's terms of service.