Hello r4rseattle community! We're looking at making some improvements to remove spammers/sellers more efficiently. There are two ways you can help:

We're looking to expand the moderator team!

For now, I'd like to start with adding two additional mods to our team. Moderators will be expected to spend time somewhat regularly responding to mod DMs, reviewing the mod queue, or simply looking at posts to find the ones that look like spam. If you've been a mod for another subreddit, great! And if you haven't, it's not a hard learning curve.

Additionally, moderator actions should be auditable as much as possible. When someone complains about a moderator action, anyone on the mod team should be able to respond to that event. We appreciate people who will be detail oriented about specifying reasons why posts were removed, why users were banned, etc, so that we don't have to follow up with "I don't know why another moderator did that".

Please send a DM to the r/r4rseattle sub (modmail) to apply. Include a little blurb about your motivations as a moderator, previous experience, and why you think you'll be a fit!

We'll try to pick a few qualified folks quickly to fill these spots.

A quick note about our moderation philosophy:

This subreddit is inherently a community of people seeking out their kinks. We don't believe in kink shaming the content of posts via moderation unless they cross legal lines. Moderators must be able to avoid imposing their own preferences or sense of propriety as a basis for post removal.

We need better reports

We get a lot of reports of spam/sellers, even those targeting verified users. Flagging a post is anonymous, so we end up weighing the report based on the flagged poster's interactions with us (we don't know who the flagger is). Ultimately, it comes down to a "he said, she said" problem (forgive the gender pronouns, it's the colloquial saying). If we've had a back and forth chat with the poster and they seem real, we will often favor them.

Flags on verified users are the most awkward, because those people have photo-verified themselves with us, and so have an even higher level of trust established vs. an anonymous report. That's not to say that verification is perfect - far from it! But we have to weigh things as fairly as we can with what we know.

If you are reporting a user for selling/scamming, please consider sending a DM to the mods (r/r4rseattle), and providing a link to a screenshot of the interaction (note: images can't be included directly in mod mail, it needs to be a link to an image). You can filter out your part of the chat, but if we can see what the accused party has said, it makes it much more clear when a ban is appropriate, and how to respond if they complain.

Many thanks for your continued participation in our community!

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