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billy99k 7 hours ago

This is the problem with a stressful role, with little compensation. Most people wouldn't want to be in this position.

It sounds like anyone that runs a moderately sized open source project.

More money would solve most of these issues.

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duxup 6 hours ago | parent [-]

I used to volunteer moderate a very busy forum.

Our rule was that anyone who wanted to moderate “too much” was effectively not allowed to do so.

The catch being finding those who would help out and moderate effectively was not easy. And even then you were cycling through them regularly as inevitably if they cared enough they also cared enough that they stepped down.

I do wonder though if you have people doing it for the money, would that help or hinder?

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bigiain 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

One fairly busy forum I cofounded and "moderated" on, we intentionally call the moderators "Janitors" in an attempt to dissuade the sort of people who wanted "a powerful role" from even wanting to ask. It sorta mostly worked, largely because there were 7 very like minded cofounders of that forum who stared it as an escape route when a previous version was sold to a forum-monetising company (Vertical Scope, from memory).

	▲	layer8 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		“Moderator” used to sound like a boring role as well once upon a time.

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billy99k 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

You can probavly get better, more accountable moderators, if it meant losing your job for violating the rules.

Money could also be invested in developers to maintain Mastadon and issue security fixes.