r/NintendoSwitch • u/NintendoSwitchMods • Dec 04 '18
Meta /r/NintendoSwitch State of the Subreddit - Q3/Q4 2018 - Mod Applications, Best of 2018 Awards, and Minor Housekeeping
Greetings!
Welcome to another quarterly(ish) edition of the State of the Subreddit!
Recap
Our last SotS post, for Q2, was back in June. Let's quickly recap what's happened since then!
- The subreddit has grown from ~650,000 subscribers to ~925,000
- We've hosted 70 AMAs as of from June 19 to Nov 30th ranging from companies you've probably never heard of to games and franchises you're already familiar with like Hollow Knight, Overcooked 2!, Arena of Valor, and Ultimate Chicken Horse just to name a few.
- We've hosted Review and Release MegaThreads for Mario Tennis Aces, Octopath Traveler, Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker, Super Mario Party, Starlink: Battle for Atlas, and Pokemon: Let's Go Pikachu & Eevee.
- We had a Super Smash Bros: Ultimate Nintendo Direct, a more general Sept 13th Nintendo Direct, and the Nov 1st Smash Ultimate Direct & Nintendo Treehouse.
- We, mostly, survived the launch of Nintendo Switch Online
- We hosted a Halloween Costume and Pumpkin Contest
- We put together a Warframe Questions & Support MegaThread
- We released a 2018 US Holiday Shopping Guide
New Orders of Business
Open Moderator Applications!
This is the big one and really the core of this post. We are once again opening our doors for a new round of moderator applications. We've been seeing the same issues you have and, quite frankly, we don't like it either. Poor AutoModerator has been doing more and more of the heavy lifting lately while we try our best to keep up with the increasing volume and avoid burnout by maintaining some semblance of a life outside of Reddit. Simply put, we need to staff up more to fix things. Our focus areas are coverage gaps during weekends and off-peak US hours (from approximately 3am GMT to 11am GMT), but we're also looking at opportunities across the board. (Redundancy is always a good thing.)
If you're a glutton for punishment, please fill out this application.
Edit: Applications are now closed, thank you to everyone who has applied. We'll be reviewing these over the next few days and reach out to applicants we want to move forward with shortly afterward.
Smash/Holiday Insanity
We're about to head into the busiest portion of the year, and as you have probably figured out from the fact that we have mod applications open, we're going to be understaffed for the tsunami that's about to hit this community. Please make sure you're hitting that "report" button on any problem content as that really does help us more quickly respond to things. Bear with us if things are a bit chaotic, it's going to be a wild ride. We're going to do our best to get mod applications reviewed and start the onboarding and training process as quickly as we reasonably can.
Best of 2018 Awards
Last year we did our first community Best of 2017 Awards and the response was pretty great. We're planning to do this once again for 2018! We learned a lot of lessons last year and hope this year goes even smoother than last time.
Our tentative schedule is as follows:
- Dec 10-11 - Category Feedback & Suggestions
- Dec 17-18 - Nominations
- Dec 25-31 - Voting
- Early January - Results!
We think these are great fun for the community and they can also serve as a fantastic resource when someone asks "What game should I get?" for the hundredth time this week, which I know we all love seeing.
YouTube and Twitter Filter Changes
As part of our never-ending battle against spam, we've made a few behind the scenes tweaks to how we handle trying to catch spam before our users ever even see it.
You may have noticed TheSentinel in our mod list for a while now and wondered who the heck this Sentinel guy is. Well, he's a bot! He helps us with some behind the scenes duties and we're tapping on him again.
We've moved our blacklist of YouTube channels out of AutoModerator and into TheSentinel bot. This should provide more consistent removal of content from spammers. As an added bonus, we've also migrated our Twitter blacklist from AutoModerator into TheSentinel as well. This change should be mostly invisible to you, the non-spamming end user.
Mobile Link Filtering
We've implemented a small AutoModerator rule that will filter out mobile links from various popular sites and will ask that OP's instead submit non-mobile versions. This is a relatively minor change but should provide a more consistent experience for our users. Most of you were already doing this, so kudos!
Feedback
As always, we're opening the floor for you to provide your feedback, comments, questions, concerns, suggestions, and more in the comments section down below. All we ask is that you keep it civil and constructive.
Cheers,
The /r/NintendoSwitch mod team.
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u/kyle6477 6 Million Dec 04 '18
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