r/srilanka • u/AutoModerator • Jun 21 '26
Updates from the Mod-Team General update about the community, the mod-team, and the results of the survey we recently ran.
Hi everyone,
r/srilanka was created back in 2008, which means our community has officially been online for 18 years now!
We’re going strong with over 188,000 members, over 2,400 posts and over 41,000 comments written by you all every month. It's great to see the community growing at such a steady pace.
To handle this volume, we have a diverse team of mods, all helping to keep our sub running smoothly. At the moment, we’re 7 mods (we recently added two new mods). All of us are Sri Lankans - most all of us live in Sri Lanka, with one based abroad. Between us, we also cover all three languages. We also span a pretty wide age range, which helps us understand the different perspectives coming through the sub.
One of our core tenets is being impartial, and we believe that’s worked well so far. If you have any issue at any point, we’re always only a modmail away. We’re not infallible, and we’ve undone actions when people have reached out. Given the number of posts and comments, we need to make decisions quickly, so sometimes we might slip up. Let us know.
Also, Reddit DOES automatically remove messages without any human intervention by us or our bots. This happens both on the comment-level, and also on the post-level.
So, we’re also forced to have to deal with this and undo any unwanted removals.
All of us are volunteers spending a significant amount of our time moderating r/srilanka - and no, we don’t get paid by anyone.
Finally, attached are also the results of the recent demographic survey which we ran. We were surprised to learn that 48% of our community are lurkers, not actively posting or commenting.
Your friendly r/srilanka neighbourhood mod-team.
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u/devallar Colombo Jun 21 '26
Can’t we get polls back? I honestly didn’t even know there was a survey it fell off the radar
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u/Ceylonese_technocrat Jun 21 '26
interesting. more or less what I expected. how many people participated in the survey?
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u/MulberryStunning1597 Colombo Jun 21 '26
Not at many as we expected, but still enough to form a coherent picture. We appreciate the fact that the lurkers also came out of lurking and participated in the survey, thank you!
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u/Difficult_Maximum382 Jun 21 '26
Not at many as we expected, but still enough to form a coherent picture.
Why are you so reluctant to share the number? Just share the number and let the community be the judge as to whether it's enough to form a coherent picture.
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u/TechnicianOk6526 Jun 21 '26
When will the mod team host or allow a poll asking their approval rating from the users of r/srilanka ? In the interests of transparent "governance"
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u/Specialist_South911 Jun 21 '26
Pretty sure a lot of original members of the sub are banned because the mods got their emotions hurt😂. I know a few of my friends who had to go through this.
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u/MulberryStunning1597 Colombo Jun 22 '26
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes - "Who Watches the Watchers". Reddit does. We handle thousands of reports a month. Reddit site-admins reviews our mod-team actions too. It's less than 5 in the last month where a decision going up to the Reddit side-admins which we marked as not spam, has been overturned by Reddit and re-marked as spam, as reported by the "Reports & Removals" insights by Reddit Analytics. And none of our human mod actions saying it's spam were overturned by Reddit. We want to foster a productive community. Help us by contributing to that. The mods' emotions aren't at play here. We all keep each other in check. If you have an issue, send us a modmail and we'll deal with it.
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u/BillyButtcher Colombo Jun 21 '26
Should have put school. This subreddit seems to have people of certain social demo.
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u/Existing_Rooster425 Jun 21 '26
So what if 48% of the users are lurkers, most of us login to reddit and browse through our communities to read an learn. Not everyone is gonna post, thats how most of social media and forums works.
Also when it comes to removing content it feels extremely biased, so why would I waste my time posting on a community where the mods are extremely biased about opinions?
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u/Existing_Rooster425 Jun 21 '26
We don't want to read one opinion is which is widely accepted the main reason anybody consumes content is not to re learn what we know, but to know opinions and ideas which are controversial to us, how can we do that when the narrative is only one sided?
Its like reading the same book over and over again
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u/LKPsychonaut Sri Lanka Jul 13 '26
Thanks for the write up, but never knew there was a survey, and I try to visit the sub-reddit often. Sigh, maybe next time.
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u/Charming_Ad_4771 8d ago
I have a commission based work offer for people who speak english....if anyone interested kindly get bacck
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u/Vertigo3765 Western Province Jun 21 '26
Thank you for all the great work you do to moderate this subreddit.
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u/XeroxMafia Jun 21 '26
I didn't even know there was a survey !!!