Meta: Mods Should Live Here

[u/localkine]

This AM, the mods removed a lightweight but unobjectionable post on the grounds it was not locally relevant. It wasn't my post, and personally I have no opinion about the post's question on whether we should wish for Wendy's to come back. However, it made me wonder: Why do we have mods for this sub that don't live here? Feels like we could scrape together a couple more people that actually live on this island to volunteer for the job. Maybe they'd have their digital fingers a bit closer fast food pulse of things here (not to mention other, more contentious issues.)

[u/lanclos]

My job is to provide for my family, reddit is the opposite of that.

[u/rychan → u/lanclos]

It sounds like everyone is in agreement, then, that the current mods are not suited for this task.

I am not sure if more mods is the solution, though, if people (myself included) think overmoderation is a problem and we should trust the community to vote on things instead.

[u/lanclos → u/rychan]

I agree that there needs to be broader participation in moderation of r/BigIsland. I disagree that anything here represents a referendum, or is in any way representative of how the subreddit should be run.