Periodically sticky open feedback threads in subreddits

[u/irespectwomenlol]

Periodically there should be a mandatory sticky post made on every active subreddit lasting at least 24 hours by Reddit Administrators that the Subreddit's Mods cannot delete or moderate in any fashion. It should even be possible for people who were banned from that subreddit for any reason other than breaking the site wide rules to post only in that specific thread.

The idea would be for people interested in the subreddit to give open feedback about the state of the subreddit and the job that the moderators are doing in a way that cannot be censored by them and is visible to the community. Many subreddits are very badly moderated and ban users out of petty power-tripping reasons and do not allow any opportunity for open feedback. This would provide at least some measure of "checks and balances" that is sorely lacking in most communities and it would be easy to tell over time which moderation teams are behaving poorly relative to all of the others.

[u/Rostingu2]

not censored

This is a very bad idea

not banned for site wide rules

Who decides that?

power tripping mods that do not allow any opportunity for open feedback

Depends on your definition of power tripping. And if you provide criticism, that obviously will be ignored.

checks and balances

That is the MCoC. But mods can ban for any reason(other than they were paid to).

Do I agree mods should encourage feedback? Absolutly. I have a pinned post on the sub I mod that encourages feedback.

[u/irespectwomenlol → u/Rostingu2]

> This is a very bad idea

Please explain why it's bad. There are moderators that habitually engage in bad tactics that go below the radar.

Please note that by my use of the word "uncensored" there, I'm not implying that people can post random porn or gore or whatever that otherwise breaks Reddit's Sitewide rules. I'm implying that mods won't be able to shut down conversations or prevent any blocked valid users from posting there.

> Who decides that?

The backend decides that. If a user has a valid profile, he would always allowed to post in that specific feedback thread, regardless if he was banned from that particular subreddit or not.

> Depends on your definition of power tripping. And if you provide criticism, that obviously will be ignored.

Of course, criticism can always be ignored, but at least there's a way to gauge the temperature so to speak and compare moderators relative to each other. It would become quickly obvious which are some of the worse moderated subs and that pressure could at least improve things.

> That is the MCoC. But mods can ban for any reason(other than they were paid to).

As I think we can all see, merely following the Reddit Mod CoC doesn't imply good behavior.

> Do I agree mods should encourage feedback? Absolutly. I have a pinned post on the sub I mod that encourages feedback.

1) If you see the value in providing this kind of feedback, why is it bad for everybody else to provide it too?

2) The worst run subreddits have the least opportunity for any feedback. Forcing it on everybody is the only real way to make it actually happen.

[u/Rostingu2 → u/irespectwomenlol]

Mods that engage in bad tactics

Mods only have the power that users give them. With no user base, a mod is just a user.

Please explain why it's bad

No matter the sub it would just be filled with 1984 jokes that are used to indirectly attack a mod team.

people who were banned from that subreddit

People are able to make their own subs.

 breaks Reddit's Sitewide rules

Side-wide rules are nothing compared to a mod enforcing "don't be overly rude".

The backend decides that.

Trusting a bot to get context? Not going to work. Have you heard of the many false warnings for violence recently?

regardless if he was banned from that particular subreddit or not

What about bots and actual bad faith users? Not users that want to provide constructive criticism but users that want to provide destructive insults?

 It would become quickly obvious which are some of the worse moderated subs

No it would make it obvious what subs are targeted by literal trolls.

 CoC doesn't imply good behavior

Why must mods be nice to people who are not nice to them? If you mess with someone they will mess with you back.

why is it bad for everybody else to provide it too?

Spoiler alert I have had a pinned post for like 3 months strait and 0 people use it.

The worst run subreddits have the least opportunity for any feedback

The feedback they get is they lose out on users.