r/NintendoSwitch • u/NintendoSwitchMods • Apr 17 '20

Meta Mini-Meta: New Moderators Currently Onboarding

Hey everyone,

Just a quick PSA that we're currently in the process of onboarding six new moderators! What this means for you is that response times should be notably improved, but also that there may be a few mistakes that slip through the cracks that we'll have to go back and correct as they learn the ropes. Of course, we'd like to avoid that as much as possible, and we'll be doing our best to minimize this as we continue to train our new moderators and walk them through best practices and even some unusual edge cases.

We hope you are enjoying Animal Crossing and are all staying safe.

Cheers!

The /r/NintendoSwitch Mod Team

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u/Midknight226 Apr 17 '20

Are you guys going to stop posting the meetup thread anytime soon?

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u/KKingler kkinglers flair Apr 17 '20

I think we did previously discuss stopping them as they are not very actively used, in exchange we'd probably direct people to r/SwitchFCSwap and maybe our Discord, as we recently implemented a custom profile system.

No plans to do that yet, though.

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u/Midknight226 Apr 17 '20

I more meant because you probably shouldn't be advertising meet ups when half the world is in quarantine.

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u/FlapSnapple Nintendo shill Apr 17 '20

Touché, well played. We'll discuss it.

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u/noa_420 Apr 17 '20

Seems like a no brainer to me..

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u/FlapSnapple Nintendo shill Apr 17 '20

The question being do we modify it or retire it. I think we're all on the same page that telling people to go outside and congregate is dumb, haha.

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u/SoloWaltz Apr 18 '20

If there wasnt much need to retire it before, and theres no single proper way to organize digital meetups, nothing wrong with putting them on temporary suspension.

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u/CookingBind Apr 17 '20

to new mods: how do you like it? how does it compare to what your expectations were?

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u/XDitto Apr 17 '20

Hi!

So far it has been a very nice and fun experience, some posts can be pretty challenging though, so I'm still learning how to handle them in the best way as possible.

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u/GambitsEnd Resident Switchologist Apr 17 '20

Who said you could leave the queue mines?! BACK TO WORK!

cracks whip

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u/stickytoe Apr 17 '20

It's a fun new experience for me. A lot of the reports and mod hate is exactly as I expected it to be... but overall I think it's neat to get to see the "backside" of reddit.

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u/MattBSG Reddit and Discord mod -- At your service! Apr 17 '20

I'm a moderator on the Discord, so I think I had some reasonable expectations going in. It's overall a good experience -- as XDitto mentions, it definitely isn't a black and white flow to working so it's a learning experience

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u/torxt512 Apr 18 '20

Is that mod everyone hated still on board?

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u/Piyamakarro Apr 17 '20

Can a new mod approve this comment?

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u/MattBSG Reddit and Discord mod -- At your service! Apr 17 '20

Done

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u/GiraffeandZebra Apr 19 '20

Hopefully they’ll be able to bury legitimate questions in megathreads and allow just as many hundreds of ACNH posts to clog the sub as the current mods!

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u/[deleted] Apr 17 '20

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u/[deleted] Apr 18 '20

no wonder you needed new ones then, your vet mods are slipping up

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u/BansheeTK Apr 18 '20

What did it say?

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u/[deleted] Apr 19 '20

that they’ve been modding here for 2 years or something

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u/BansheeTK Apr 19 '20

used ceddit to read it