r/smashbros • u/KennyLog_Ins #1 banjo main in my apartment • Apr 25 '21

Subreddit We're the /r/SmashBros modteam! Ask us anything!

Hey r/smashbros, as part of our moderator application campaign, we decided to do an Ask Us Anything, today on Sunday, the 25th of April.

Have you ever wondered how the job of an /r/smashbros moderator works? If you have specific questions, this is your chance! You can find out how the job works, how we feel about specific topics/rules or simply which character we main.

Drop your questions below, and we'll be answering them for the whole day.

If you get interested in doing moderator work yourself, don't be afraid to apply now, since we still have our mod apps open (until May, 1st!!)!

EDIT: Alright, crew, we are officially done with questions at the moment. If anyone has any last minute additions we'll do our best to get to those too. I think I can speak for all of us when I say it was a blast getting to do this and getting to interact with you all personally. See you next time!

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u/TrippyppirT Tier whore who loves fastfallers Apr 25 '21

what was it like handling July on your end?

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u/nyyymph @yungaegi Apr 25 '21

I can only speak for me personally here but it was really really rough. Obviously there was more to do than usual, but that wasn't the real problem (Thanks to some goated mods who did an insane amount of mod actions that month).

It was hard to make desicions during that time because any mistake could have very very serious consequences, and we didn't had any guidelines to go after, since we have never seen anything like that.

A lot of people went to the sub for the Drama, and for the drama alone, throwing hate towards people and calling for "Justice" when situations were still very unclear. Reading some of the stuff we had to remove was really disturbing, ngl.

Overall i can just thank every single mod that was present during that time, because we really worked out things as a team. Obviously we also did our mistakes, but i think we managed to overcome this situation pretty well.

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u/KennyLog_Ins #1 banjo main in my apartment Apr 25 '21

100% this. That month was really hard on all of us basically watching the community collapse in on itself. Many of us had only been mods for a few months at the time as well.

One of our main goals moving forward is making sure that we can signal boost information that needs to be out in the community for player safety while making sure the sub doesn't turn into infighting over drama.

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u/DragodaDragon Strong Pocket Sandbag Apr 25 '21

Complete, absolute hell. I hope to God that we'll never have to deal with that type of shitstorm again.

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u/DosRogers Sonic (Ultimate) Apr 25 '21

I believe the real issue during the "event" that transpire in July was trying to keep mental health and morale at an all time high.

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u/triangle-of-life Lucario (Ultimate) Apr 25 '21

It was like building a skyscraper out of Jenga.

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u/TheReyMi Once Lloyd releases ya'll won't catch me lacking ever Apr 28 '21

rough.