Then a week later, they get banned for calling someone and come to us like we somehow neglected our jobs in teaching them.”Īnd then, there are the trolls.
We point them to our FAQ, which includes a list of example insults and specifies that the list is non-exhaustive and the rule still covers all personal attacks.
“For example, we say, ‘No personal attacks.’ They say that they want a list. “People that willfully misinterpret our rules are pretty annoying,” Moggehh added. It doesn’t help that many posts cover sensitive issues like infidelity, pregnancy, debt and neglectful parents. The format of AITA feeds into defensive mindsets - many posts often draw more than 10,000 comments - because users are quite literally being asked to present their argument for an opinion. “There are some you just know aren’t going to accept the answer, even when presented with the rules and rationale for their removal,” Farvas-Cola, another moderator, said. Several of the mods who spoke with In The Know cited stubbornness as a major pain point. Like most subreddits, AITA clearly states its rules on the homepage - everything from “Accept Your Judgement” to “No Revenge Stories” and “No COVID Posts.” The forum’s FAQ section is exhaustingly thorough, full of forbidden words and pre-planned justifications for bans and warnings.īut those rules are ignored pretty often, either willingly or unwillingly. “ takes a lot of work in a subreddit of this size,” bubblegumgills, another AITA mod, told In The Know. As Moggehh puts it, AITA has a “much stricter ruleset” than most subreddits (the official term for Reddit’s individually divided forums), and thus it takes a gargantuan effort to make sure those rules get enforced. Mods monitor the forum for free in their spare time - often dedicating several hours each week.
It’s also, crucially, a job that pays nothing.
It’s an important job on a forum like AITA, where debates can go from zero to NFSW in seconds. They keep arguments in line, dispel fraudulent posts and comb threads looking for hurtful language. If AITA is a courtroom, then mods like Moggehh are the bailiffs.
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