How the hell did I become a mod here? How do I opt out?

  • w00@feddit.de
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    1 year ago

    Wtf, I thought there’s no personal karma on Lemmy at all. Y U have karma?

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          1 year ago

          Hey I guess I should probably update my CV to include “Internet moderator” now…

          Kidding aside, I don’t want to disrupt the community and the members just to get noticed. I don’t even know how I got to be a moderator in the first place, and I’m not sure a mod can just pick anyone and make them a mod without that person’s approval.

          • Sphks@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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            1 year ago

            With such communities, there is barely anything to do as a moderator. Once every year, someone will whine at you because another one is “rude”. You just ignore him. Maybe an advertisement or two to remove. That’s all.

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      1 year ago

      there isn’t karma as such, but up/downvotes are readily available and from that you can trivially get a total to display.

      In theory there’s even nothing preventing you from using a fancier algorithm to calculate something like reddit’s karma, but then that wouldn’t agree with what most clients display.