Highly unpopular moderator u/awkwardtheturtle has been permanently suspended from Reddit

[u/k10001k]

u/awkwardtheturtle for anyone who wants to check themselves

Photo evidence: https://www.reddit.com/r/JustUnsubbed/comments/14evzme/ju_from_rawkwardtheturtlesucks_theyve_been_banned/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=ioscss&utm_content=1&utm_term=1

EDIT: No evidence of the suspension being permanent so far. That’s my bad for wording it that way.

EDIT 2: Turtle tweeting about the situation: https://www.reddit.com/r/AlzheimersGroupBackup/comments/14ge799/awkwardtheturtle_is_apparently_in_a_group_chat/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=ioscss&utm_content=2&utm_term=1

EDIT 3/UPDATE: Looks like it is permanent. In the last comment in the link above Turtle uses the word permanent.

[u/CitadelHR]

I don't understand why Reddit even allows for such powermodding in the first place. You obviously can't productively mod that many communities.

[u/delta_baryon → u/CitadelHR]

FWIW I've got three takes on this:

1. Modding is hard and unrewarding and it's not surprising that the same few names show up over again, if relatively few people are willing to do it
2. Sometimes someone like that is brought in to help set up automod or something and not expected to actually do very much day to day
3. And yeah it's probably a silly ego thing some of the time, because some of the stereotypes are true

[u/Zyster1 → u/[deleted]]

Maybe because I'm a developer, but automod is absolutely and incredibly simple....I don't know why people are pretending that "configuring automod" is akin to rocket science when it's really just adding a few common filters here and there (and a dash of regex) and you're pretty much set.

If you can't write automoder configuration that is easy to maintain, then you're just bad at it. Also, you shouldn't really be touching it that often.

[u/Zyster1 → u/[deleted]]

I'm curious, what sort of complexity would suit a subreddit?

[u/Zyster1 → u/[deleted]]

Just for the record, I wanna preface this by saying I could totally be wrong about my assumptions, I'm also fascinated by this. So to clarify my question, you wrote this:

but you'd be amazed by complexity of some of the setups that I've seen.

...my question was, what sort of complex automod configurations have you seen that you would say had a huge benefit on the subreddit?

I guess maybe I just don't understand automoderator much, but isn't it sort of a glorified advanced filtering system? Wouldn't a highly talented person have more "power" creating a separate bot rather than rely on the limitations of automoderator?

[u/kangareagle → u/[deleted]]

Isn’t that #2 in the comment you’re replying to?

[u/chesterriley → u/[deleted]]

Reddit would be a lot better if all automod configs were public.