/ub May we please get some new moderators?
Why it's important: There have been many low-effort posts lately, like the u/ToonAdventure bot, who automatically reposts Khyleri artwork from Twitter on here. Also, there have been plenty of posts that are more suited for the r/animemes subreddit than here. I am not asking for super strict moderation, but somebody who can preserve the quality of r/okbuddybaka.
Evidence: As far as I can tell, there are four accounts with mod perms here. u/ThickThi and u/arakonSeven, who are inactive on Reddit and have not posted or commented in many months. Then there's u/okbuddybaka-ModTeam (presumably used by the two previous users) and u/AutoModerator. I don't know if there are any private accounts with mod perms, but that doesn't seem to be happening.
To my knowledge, u/AutoModerator only deletes posts made by users whose accounts are less than 15 days old and posts/comments with racial or homophobic slurs. Relying solely on u/AutoModerator is not a pragmatic solution for a subreddit with 175,000 members. Let's take a closer look at that u/okbuddybaka-ModTeam account:
Here is its public activity in the past two months. It has only moderated for two out of the past 60 days (each of its submissions represents a deleted post, usually for being deemed low effort or a repost). It seems that u/okbuddybaka-ModTeam has a pattern of going online once a month, deleting a few posts from the subreddit's new section, and falling asleep again. If u/okbuddybaka-ModTeam found seven low-effort posts in 24 hours of new submissions, imagine how many other rule-breaking posts are getting submitted here daily. As far as I can tell, it doesn't seem to check the comment sections either, leaving the comments up to u/AutoModerator to defend. I believe u/okbuddybaka-ModTeam still comes here once a month despite probably not wanting to moderate because Reddit will ban our subreddit if it goes unmoderated for too long.
Solution: Hire some new moderators. If the old mods don't want to be here anymore, get some new blood. I believe the last moderation applications were 3 years ago, but I could be mistaken as u/arakonSeven was promoted 5 months after that post. Finally, I want to point out that the last State of the Sub was 7 months ago. There's no communication between the moderation team and the userbase.
/rb
