They must've burnt out. Was looking at the logs to see what comments were being removed etc. SpeakEasy was on it almost every minute of the day, deleting comments, banning ppl etc.
That's what I'm guessing. The last user that he banned was a rather nasty one with multiple accounts, was harrassing anyone that rubbed them the wrong way, and felt his contributions were godly. This user was so persistent that SpeakEasy went overboard in dealing with him. If he had gotten to the point where he was taking things out on a user whatever they were doing, then that's a good sign that he could no longer keep up with the task.
Perhaps he also realised this himself and decided to nuke himself rather than cause any further harm. Which is a shame, because I really liked the work that he was doing otherwise.
Probably just burned out. He was putting in a lot of work and a good bit of mod work is dragging yourself through ego excrement and shills. The good mods always drop off in a bit of a shit show. You can't moderate well without the community becoming this like thing you have to protect like a madman fighting a pack of wolves. Mod burnout is intense.
Evspra was another excellent mod. But he took the drama exit over GeorgeNews -- which I still think nutchecking GN was the right move.
Sticky!
What's more important than this?
They must've burnt out. Was looking at the logs to see what comments were being removed etc. SpeakEasy was on it almost every minute of the day, deleting comments, banning ppl etc.
That's what I'm guessing. The last user that he banned was a rather nasty one with multiple accounts, was harrassing anyone that rubbed them the wrong way, and felt his contributions were godly. This user was so persistent that SpeakEasy went overboard in dealing with him. If he had gotten to the point where he was taking things out on a user whatever they were doing, then that's a good sign that he could no longer keep up with the task.
Perhaps he also realised this himself and decided to nuke himself rather than cause any further harm. Which is a shame, because I really liked the work that he was doing otherwise.
Who was the user and what shit were they talking?
Dafuq
u/meteorknife/
What happened to speakeasy?
Probably just burned out. He was putting in a lot of work and a good bit of mod work is dragging yourself through ego excrement and shills. The good mods always drop off in a bit of a shit show. You can't moderate well without the community becoming this like thing you have to protect like a madman fighting a pack of wolves. Mod burnout is intense.
Evspra was another excellent mod. But he took the drama exit over GeorgeNews -- which I still think nutchecking GN was the right move.
I ‘member Evspra. Atheist that was genuinely pretty nice, right?
Who was GeorgeNews? A poster or some kind of organization? Wasn’t around for that, so I’m not sure who that was.