tell them to write a sentence that contains the words they're, there, and their, and use all three of them in a contextually accurate manner.

general user experience is more important for a userbase leaving a website. mods are a vast minority in those numbers, and people don't notice them gone until the shit hasn't just hit the fan but has splattered everywhere and they're looking for whoever the fuck is going to clean it up, or to put it another way a few days during which the mod in question has been sipping wine and sunbathing my the pool instead of, well, cleaning up shit

excuse the rant. as far as i'm aware, most mods i speak to use a desktop with the mod toolbox extension installed

i rekon you're right. the exodus from digg that populated reddit in the first place was a result of a UI change that users wouldn't tolerate, and thanks to the shit quality of the official reddit app compared to the third-party apps, a large chunk of the userbase is going to have to decide whether they want to deal with a shitty UI or not

the thing that did happen with digg that didn't happen with heaps of other websites was a negatively received UI change. people hated it.

now, people deliberately don't use the reddit mobile app because it fucking sucks, and closing down the alternatives is a negative UI change ...

personally i ran my sub thru the protest, opened up as planned afterwards because the users were spamming me with requests to join the sub as approved users, and then started thinking about what the next step is going to be. i'll take a day or two to make that decision too, because it's not a tiny community over in that subreddit and those users are who i work for, not the reddit admins.

figuring that we'll shut down for two days every week for the rest of the month, and depending on what the users opinions are i'm not sure if the sub is going to continue operating. i DO know that if the sub moves website that i don't want to moderate any more. i lost interest in the topic of the sub a few years ago and have only been moderating out of generosity and simply to keep the place operating. i would have done it if nobody else did, but someone did, and they can have fun with the role.

"fun" /s

my priority is the user experience and making that as pleasant as possible before doing anything else. i asked the users of the sub whether we were going to do the protest and followed what their answer was. not sure how many people realise that experienced mods are kinda vital to internet forums actually working and not descending into shitfights and nazi recruitment zones. the number ain't big, i know that.

when has the narrative ever changed away from that attitude? look at how mutahar has acted - knowing that we're doing the right thing but still throwing as much contempt into everything as he possibly can. the only times that people side with mods is when we're taking enormous damage so that general users don't cop it instead, or if there's a power-mad despot who should never have control of anything larger than a toy train

aye, the former mod of r/jailbait can have his cardboard castle and paper crown - let's build something better

and the mods of r/australia can sit in the hole that they dug too

SALUT, KANGA !!!!!! nice to meet ya

ahhh WOO HOO i gave my subreddit the two-weeks-notice that i'm quitting today. fuck that feels better, knowing that the endless toil is ending.

i'm gonna have a celebration and get baked

nah, crypto is smoke-and-mirrors and he knows that this isn't, so he's run away

and now it's 5am and i am THOROUGHLY stoned. rest well, everyone! see you when the sky's a different colour

lol nah, the best mods are the ones that nobody notices because they just deal with everything immediately and with a friendly and happy attitude

lol @ him wanting to appeal a high court decision

the instance that i'm typing from is being hosted in someone's cupboard with some pretty off-the-shelf parts. i'v probably got enough parts for something similar laying around my house. if instances stay to low populations and the workload is distributed amongst all of them, it's not actually stressing the system all that much at all.

that being said, as soon as the aussie zone sysadmin asks for financial assistance, i'll be putting my hand into my pocket. again, if enough people do that then it's not much of a cost at all

nice weather for ducks

so what's the full specs of the machine? would building one of them and then running it at home from an NBN connection be viable, or would it lag to hell more than lemmy's world about 12 hours ago?

btw when it's time for money, i'll put one hand up and the other into my pocket. this is the sort of thing that i would be happy to fund.

at least it got towed out of the environment

lemmings? users of this website are called lemmings? OH FUCK YES do you remember "lemmings 2 - the tribes" ?? that game was absolutely the best one in the series. are we all wearing blue snuggies and green mops on our heads too?

yeah, i'v got a sock-puppet account on lemmy world so that i can do administrative / modding work there. i'm one of those refugee reddit mods, seeing what's needed to be able to steal reddit's userbase to this platform and holding a few forts until other people come along and i can give the communities to them, but really i'd much rather do my stuff from this instance as, like, you're local and everyone else on the planet loves us simply because we're australian soooo .... hehehehe

and anyway, this place has people who understand that expletives are used like condiments in australian speech and we're not angry but are instead just using standard adjectives

aww, thank you for your concern, but i'm not being troubled by the insomnia in the slightest, and i do prioritise myself immediately after my son because i need to be fit enough to be responsible for him

that was just beautiful, thank you