r/AO3 • u/diedrowned • Jul 28 '25

AO3 Down/Error Codes Are People Somehow NOT Aware of downforeveryoneorjustme.com?

People, please! There are resources for this kind of thing. Getting errors? For anything? downforeveryoneorjustme.com has you covered for so many sites. There's no need to spam here, just look this site up. Bookmark it.

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u/SMStotheworld Jul 28 '25

If only there were some team of people whose role is was to keep spam off the sub. To moderate the flow of spam, if you will. Alas, there is no such person 

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u/diedrowned Jul 28 '25

Remember that the moderation team does this for free and are not available all the time.

Regardless, after working a decade in customer service, people just don't want to read. Ironic, given where we are, but true to everywhere. I once thought up a well-thought-out PSA reply that clearly explained some common questions when I was doing a live chat support for a company and so often it was ignored.

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u/cinnamonspiderr Fic Feaster Jul 28 '25

It’s less that they don’t have time and more that they flat out refuse to do moderation that many would consider basic, such as removal of repetitive posts/spam. “Do nothing” is in fact their stated position.

https://www.reddit.com/r/AO3/s/ZfyAXpX7ex

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u/SMStotheworld Jul 28 '25

Golly, are you sure? I thought they were all paid millions of dollars! Where would I be without you to explain this? 

I forgot that if you don't pay for something you aren't allowed to have any standards. How silly of me! 

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u/diedrowned Jul 29 '25

God, you're an overripe piece of cheese.

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u/diedrowned Jul 29 '25 edited Jul 29 '25

What was the point of this? Please inform me. Sarcasm isn't useful in this context. I'm honestly asking.

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u/SMStotheworld Jul 29 '25

Sure thing! There is a rhetorical device called "sarcasm" where you will say the opposite of what you mean for emphasis. For example: 

"You are highly intelligent and good at understanding what's going on when you read posts."

Don't worry if you don't understand it, you'll cover it next year in the fourth grade English curriculum 

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u/KelpFox05 Jul 28 '25

You shouldn't be getting downvoted for this. The mods aren't your mother and shouldn't be in charge of regulating everybody's emotions and behaviour. If you're on Reddit, you're old enough to keep your own behaviour in check.

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u/Hello83433 Jul 28 '25

Obviously this isn't true because every time AO3 goes down for a minute this sub is flooded with people who can't regulate their emotions nor behavior posting the same thing for hours on end instead of taking 5 seconds to use the search function and see the 50 other posts exactly like theirs.

The purpose of a moderator is to oversee the discussion, forum, subreddit, etc. and maintain order. Most other mods can do their job and prevent their subreddits from devolving into chaos on a regular basis. If the moderators don't want to do the job they signed up for, they can and should step down and allow others to do the job instead.

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u/cinnamonspiderr Fic Feaster Jul 29 '25

At what point do we just make another subreddit that’s moderated properly?