r/calmhands • u/Indecisive_Owl Moderator • 1d ago

Looking for Mods

Hello everyone,

This is a long overdue post. This subreddit has only continued to grow and overtime has ebbed and flowed. At one point we had a full mod team who had the time necessary to consistently moderate this sub and keep it a healthy and helpful environment.

Over the years this subreddit has grown and the mod team shrunk. I have been unable to keep up with the reports solo and at times simply neglected the sub more than I wouldve wanted to as someone who has also loved and depended on this sub.

As such, I would love to shift gears and expand our mod team here so we can adjust to the growing demands of this subreddit and keep this community one that can focus on individual and collective growth while minimizing setbacks. To do so I am looking to expand our mod team. If you would like to join the modteam please message me answering the following questions:

  1. A post is borderline and you're unsure whether it violated a rule, what do you do?

  2. Shoulder a moderator make exceptions to the rules, if so when?

  3. Which do you think is worse, enforcing rules too strictly or too lightly.

  4. What do you think contributes to making a healthy subreddit community

  5. Why do you want to be a moderator for calm hands.

Thank you all for your patience and your interest. I hope with the expansion of our mod team we can recreate the healthy and encouraging community we once strived as.

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u/LacquerandBones 1d ago

Hi! Im willing to help out and will send you a DM with my answers later today :)

Do you mind me asking if the lack of moderators is the reason we can’t embed photos/media in comments on this sub? I do a lot of educating & engaging here as someone who’s successfully redirected the picking/chewing habit into an passion obsession with nail care, but it takes a lot more effort to help people in this sub because we can’t easily include visual aids in comments.

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u/Indecisive_Owl Moderator 1d ago

Likely! It's been a while since we (mostly me now) have dug deeply into the settings of this subreddit. For example we once had an automod that would post weekly update posts. A communal spot where people could post updates and progression.

Along the way with reddit updates our bots got messed up and I hadn't done the deep dive necessary to get them all up and running again. I would love to expand on that again.

Part of the lack of media was there was a brief awkward time where the expansion of this sub was really high. Mostly ecause it was vastly advertised for products. We didn't want to sub to be one big advertisement for nail care products. We had no issues with people sharing what products and tips worked for them but at the time nearly every other post was an external video link to some new product and it became too overwhelmed for a more fledged out mod team. If we had more mods and more consistent moderation it could be something easier to keep an eye on.

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u/LacquerandBones 11h ago

That makes sense, thank you for the detailed reply!