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Honestly not too surprising. But good luck moderating the bigger subs without the old volunteers.
It's an absolute non-starter. The amount of random... I'm a medium fish there and there's SO MUCH you have to know to mod a sub, plus you're constantly in PR mode with the users to keep everyone happy and enjoying your work. Communication skills. Bot wrangling and sometimes creation. Automod. Css. Rule modifications. Enforcement and reviewing existing threads for rule violations. PLUS you have to know the existing culture or you're gonna make everyone mad.
I kinda want to see it. Reddit would explode.
the thing is -- none of that needs to exist! this is why reddit started to get so shitty, no one can keep it all straight; it's simply too much considering how meaningless all the stakes are. i as a user never asked for constant review of threads for rule violations nor gave a shit about css or anything.
If you want to see what a forum site looks like without any of that stuff, look at 8kun/8chan. I don't think you realize how unusably terrible reddit would be without mods.