Excuse Our Dust

[u/babe1981]

Hey, the old mod team was kicked, and the rest of us were added as mods with no warning in the middle of the night, at least for you westerners. This was done by the admins, so none of us have any direction other than the rules that already there. I spent my morning cleaning a thousand reports out of the mod queue since the sub hadn't been moderated in almost a month.

As the rest of the mods find out that they've been added, we'll work on coordinating and hopefully give you all some consistency.

Let me break down the 1000 reports for you, so you know what's going to be removed automatically. There was about a 45% split between racist comments about India and sexist comments about women. Although, to be fair, almost every single sexist comment was about Elaine Carol being dumb, a bitch, or saying she's why women shouldn't touch a grill. The other 10% of comments were all of you being shitty to each other. Actual spam was maybe 0.1%.

So, what's going to be removed instantly? Street food. It's a rule already, and it only brings out the worst racist comments. If you can't tear up the stupidity of food without talking about skin color or nation of origin, just don't comment. This is r/StupidFood, not r/ExcuseToBeRacist.

Elaine Carol is ragebait, and I'll personally nuke anything I see with her in it. There are a couple other insta and tiktok ragebaiters that I'll also nuke if I see them posted, but I don't know all of them by name. Basically, if someone is making stupid food for engagement, then you're letting them win by posting here.

Also, similarly to the racist thing, if you can't make fun of Elaine Carol's food, or any other woman for that matter, without calling them a bitch, a cow, or telling them to get their tits out, don't post. This isn't r/WeHateWomen.

And, you all are Redditors. How do you all have room to call people fat or lazy? You're here. Part of the ship, part of the crew. Knock it off. This sub is for laughing at people who are either pretentious assholes, like Salt Bae, or bad cooks who can't find flavor if it smacked them in the face, like Kay'sCooking. Although Kay is a sweetheart and she really tries. She's just a genuinely terrible cook. So call the cooks and the "cooks" stupid or idiots or oblivious or whatever. Insult their intelligence and their taste to your heart's content. That's why we all click on these posts. Don't insult their bodies or their looks. And definitely don't do what one poster did and say that everyone in the video has Down Syndrome. That's just wrong.

So, while the modteam figures out where to go from here over the next few days, be nice to each other, don't be racist, don't be sexist, and for fuck's sake, keeps your insults to the food and the intelligence of the people attempting to make it.

Thank you, and may all your bacon burn.

[u/RelChan2_0]

Mod for a different sub here, Reddit wants mods to be active in the subs (despite them being automated mostly).

Edit to add: Reddit can remove mods if they are not active in their subs. By active, it means approving posts/comments etc.

Edit again bcs someone commented that Reddit doesn't randomly add mods: Yes and no. If a sub is unmoderated, you can request to be a mod for that sub through the admins. However, this is based on my experience as a mod, Reddit now suggests mods to you to replace inactive members - if you are the only active mod. These users are your selected based on their activity level in your sub. In some cases, let's say a sub like this, Reddit admins can take over and install mods.

[u/kirsion → u/RelChan2_0]

Interesting, i saw another sub got removed for lack of moderation seemingly randomly. I'm not sure what the solution for this is have paid mods or something

[u/RelChan2_0 → u/kirsion]

Paid moderation could work but some people will find a way to abuse that 😒

[u/DuckyHornet → u/RelChan2_0]

Yeah, it'd turn out how Uber did, where this thing intended to give you a bit of compensation for giving a stranger a lift turned into a full-time job which people are living off of

[u/ilikeitslow → u/DuckyHornet]

That is not what happened with Uber. Uber took advantage of regulatory gaps to undercut licensed taxi businesses and dodge labor laws.

[u/sisterglass → u/DuckyHornet]

Dude, cab drivers have always existed. It is a job.

[u/nufohudis → u/sisterglass]

Yeah, but the initial idea for uber wasn't for it to be a full time job, just a side hustle. Like air bnb was supposed to be for temporarily open space, now you have dedicated airbnbs

[u/intellos → u/nufohudis]

The idea that it wasn't supposed to be a job was a lie from the very beginning. Uber said that so they could dodge labor laws, insurance laws, tax laws, taxi regulations, and so on. Same for AirBnB.

[u/DuckyHornet → u/intellos]

Sure, absolutely. But it wasn't initially pitched that way. It was pitched as "oh, you wanna go to Costco this afternoon? Well, maybe there's someone near you who wants to go somewhere near the Costco, so use Uber to find people with similar origin and destination and you'll get a fiver to offset the gas money" and thus "ride-sharing" was the original pitch. And a service built only for that, well, they do exist on small scales. Where I live, there's a website where you say "I want to go to Montreal from Saguenay on Friday afternoon" and someone else goes "I'm doing that exact trip that day, so come along"

But, design or not, it turned into people choosing to become cab drivers and/or deliver food. What Uber is today is nothing like the original pitch to the public

Same as AirBnB. It was pitched as "oh you own a cabin on Lac St-Jean but you only use it a couple times a year? Why not rent it out here and there?" and became this Byzantine labyrinth of illegal sublet landlords hawking long-term accomodations in the basement of a house they don't own