r/ModSupport • u/smilingjade101 • 13h ago

Admin Replied Control of mod list

Hello, the senior mods in my subreddit are having a problem. It seems we have no authority to grant alumni or advisor mod roles to the last half of the mod list. Also we are unable to reorder the mod list. Can anyone help?

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u/TheOpusCroakus 13h ago

Is your top mod inactive? If so, a top mod removal request would be the way to go.

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u/smilingjade101 12h ago

Maybe so but out of thanks and respect our senior active mod doesn't want to do that.

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u/shhhhh_h 2h ago

Just do it, you can keep them as mods and reorder if they reappear. Never keep inactive top mods, you guys could go years having to make decisions based on how the sub goes and then they show back up and disagree and nuke everything. Search the site for these stories. This happened a lot during the API protests when Redditors were trying to make their voices in either direction only to have a top mod show up after years being absent and use the subreddit to make a heavily political statement that neither the rest of the team nor the userbase wants. It’s not disrespectful to appoint an interim CEO if your CEO gets in a car wreck and falls into a coma.

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u/No-Salt-9303 5h ago edited 4h ago

Founding moderator is inactive, not top mods.

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u/No-Salt-9303 4h ago

We are getting an error, we're not able to reorder the mod list, it says we have over 100 mods despite we have well below the limit. Kindly fix the bugs!

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u/neuroticsmurf 13h ago

The senior-most active mod with everything powers should be able to do this, no problem.

You speak generally of your sub's senior mods. I'm guessing theyve all been marked inactive, and you are not including the senior-most active mod with everything powers when you say "senior mods".

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u/smilingjade101 13h ago edited 13h ago

No, the senior Mod and founder of the sub is marked inactive as well as the number 2 and 3 on the list. Day to day sub operation has fallen to the number 3, 4, 5,6 and 7 mods on the list. We are all active and none of us are able to assign roles or reorder the list for the last half of the listed mods. The first half we have no problems with. I am writing this on behalf of the senior most active mod. All of us have full permissions.

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u/LindyNet 12h ago

The senior mod that wants to reorder needs to do some actual modding for awhile to get rid of the inactive tag

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u/neuroticsmurf 12h ago

You say 1, 2, and 3 are inactive?

If 4 has everything powers, then he’s the only person that can do a mod list reorder.

But you say he’s unable to. That leads me to conclude he does not have everything powers.

Further complicating the issue is your comment to Opus in this thread. It doesn’t seem that the senior most mod even wants to do a mod list reorder.

In which case, asking for advice here is moot and a waste of time.

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