We don't actually like 'reaching out and touching' users here, or topics or posts, even. In fact, we don't mod with doing that in mind at all. We mod with the idea that we drive high expectations from our userbase and expect high-effort, high-info participation at all times. The most important thing most users overlook when gauging their level of commitment and participation to GAW is that mods look at comment quality and post scores IMMENSELY before taking action with any particular user. Low effort? No posts? We absolutely 100% don't mind a permanent vacation in those instances. We have YET to ban a low-effort 'casual' here and thought, a few weeks later, "Gee, I really miss u/XXXXXX."

The mods have bosses, too—we work for our high-effort, highest-info posters and commenters. Period. EVERY single action we take is to facilitate and make smoother and easier the work that our researchers do. Period. We see researchers get shit on all the time over on PDW. We don't want that here. If you're a high-effort poster? You are THE BOSS in the minds of the mod team, and we will do everything in our power to ensure that your posts and comments get recognized and stickied and get the attention your hard work deserves.

We don't actually like 'reaching out and touching' users here, or topics or posts, even. In fact, we don't mod with doing that in mind at all. We mod with the idea that we drive high expectations from our userbase and expect high-effort, high-info participation at all times. The most important thing most users overlook when gauging their level of commitment and participation to GAW is that mods look at comment quality and post scores IMMENSELY before taking action with any particular user. Low effort? No posts? We absolutely 100% don't mind a permanent vacation in those instances. We have YET to ban a low-effort 'casual' here and thought, a few weeks later, "Gee, I really miss u/XXXXXX."

The mods have bosses, too—we work for our high-effort, highest-info posters and commenters. Period. EVERY single action we take is to facilitate and make smoother and easier the work that they do. Period.

We don't actually like 'reaching out and touching' users here, or topics or posts, even. In fact, we don't mod with doing that in mind at all. We mod with the idea that we drive high expectations or our userbase and expect high-effort, high-info participation at all times. The most important thing most users overlook when gauging their level of commitment and participation to GAW is that mods look at comment quality and post scores IMMENSELY before taking action with any particular user. Low effort? No posts? We absolutely 100% don't mind a permanent vacation in those instances. We have YET to ban a low-effort 'casual' here and thought, a few weeks later, "Gee, I really miss u/XXXXXX."

The mods have bosses, too—we work for our high-effort, highest-info posters and commenters. Period. EVERY single action we take is to facilitate and make smoother and easier the work that they do. Period.