Hey all! Friendly neighborhood mod here!
I’ve just been added (along with @[email protected] (HEY SQUID!)) to the OTHER World News community, “worldnews”, totally separate from this group “world”.
The reason being, the mods there had effectively retired. Hurts, the lead mod, stepped away and hadn’t been active for MONTHS, and post and comment reports were PILING up, to a point where the Admins asked in our Discord chat going “Hey, what’s going on with worldnews?”
Which left ME confused, because “world” has a friendly name of “World News” and is generally up to date on the report queue unless two users are engaging in:
Which, (sigh), happens way more often than I’d like, but what are you going to do?
Before they left 5 months ago, Hurts had pinned a question to worldnews asking, basically, “Do we NEED world AND worldnews?” which I think is a valid question.
There are some key differences, world doesn’t accept video links or text pieces, but there’s no rule against that in worldnews, so it’s a little more free-form than world, although both require legitimate news sources.
So for now, consider the discussion OPEN! Keep them both? Close one or the other?
The volume difference is pretty dramatic:
world:
worldnews:
this is just bad faith engagement, and you can see them doing this and other trolling techniques in their comment history
flyingsquid isn’t even a mod of that community so this example isn’t doing much, sorry.
in comparison, jordanlund here has confirmed that they intend to continue using their mod position as a platform to support pretty obvious troll attempts with niche, uncited, subjective “context.”
again, something i’d be absolutely fine seeing in r/atheism or other communities with a strong sense of localized sociocultural philosophy, but for the fifth largest community that claims to reject opinion articles, this is absurdly unprofessional.
edit: spelling