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They got excited, they expected other people to generate the content, and they got bored and left.
Starting a community takes real work, you got to do the legwork to get people aware, you’ve got a generate content to start the conversation, you’ve got to keep the ball rolling to keep people invested, it’s a non-trivial work.
Founding a community then posting a request for moderators and walking away isn’t going to cut it. It’s a big time investment. So I salute the people who are doing it!
Yeah, actually moderating an online space with even modest activity is fucking hard and takes a shitton of time.
I think a lot of people underestimate the effort involved and quickly lose interest once it becomes apparent.
Yeah, bothered me during the protests to see people downplaying the importance of mods from those who were upset about their favorite sub being shut down. It’s a thankless job that takes lot of building to get started and exposure to bunch of crap to keep the place nice for its users.
