Someone here already has 12 subs on his own. We would be inspired to avoid the era of the power mods. Moding should involve an interest, not just collecting rings of infinity like it's a gold rush. How can it be a good practice in the long term?...
While I agree in a sense, especially of the gallowboob type, I moderate(d) 14 subs on Reddit, totalling about 2 million users. The majority of my subs had 2 primarily active mods. None of my subs were in any way "collecting" as some other comments have stated, but rather rescued from being banned due to lack of moderation, or handed to me for doing such a good job in helping out after the head mod decided to take leave and trusted me in continuing on running them. I turned each and every one of them around and moderated them with passion and fairly. Sticking to the subreddit rules that we had in place, either from before taking over abandoned subs, or tweaked as we went in order to keep said subs fair to the users, as well as deter bad players.
While I agree some kind of a limit should be in place, if one is running 20 or more small subs and is well within their capabilities I don't see that to be an issue, and while others here suggested "moderating the mods", that itself is turning into a power play, so who's going to hold the "moderators of mods" accountable for not abusing their power? I believe a line has to be drawn somewhere as well as being fair to all.
Should we establish a maximum of subs per moderators?
Someone here already has 12 subs on his own. We would be inspired to avoid the era of the power mods. Moding should involve an interest, not just collecting rings of infinity like it's a gold rush. How can it be a good practice in the long term?...