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not really, but that whole situation did add onto the stress.
really, this post was because of the stress i’ve been through while trying to moderate this platform every day & night. drama would show up in one place and i’m almost never there to stop it as it’s happening or something’s going on in /chat that i was completely unaware of. occasionally, some new user just decides to post the worst thing i’ve ever seen and now i’m stuck here deleting all of their spam.
it’s unexpectedly become a hassle for me to moderate a platform as small as wasteof.money, but i continue to do it because i want to keep it safe and comfortable for everyone that decides to interact with the community here.
moderating can be stressful… hope it isn’t taking to much out of you 
thanks sean, i appreciate the kind words.
don’t worry, it’s not taking too much out of me, but it can certainly get a little difficult at times.
no worries wuilly, can totally appreciate how it can be difficult at times
has jeffalo considered adding more people as mods? i feel like there are a lot of people on wasteof for just6 a small handful of mods...
and if admins/mods have too much power right now (i've seen the admin dashboard), maybe there needs to be a status of mod with less power than admins currently have (for example, they can't delete posts/comments, only “hide” them) so that things can be addressed quickly without being as stressful for the mods while also allowing certain users (who have been on the platform a long time or have proven themselves to be well-behaved/reasonable/trustworthy) to help moderate without giving them dangerous amounts of power.
jeffalo says that it would be better to keep light until we need more people power. those are his opinion and his words, not mine. but, it probably wouldn’t hurt to have just one extra moderator on team whose also actively checking reports and such.
for what you said about the “less power” idea, i was thinking there could be some sort of “janitor” role that trustworthy people could have where it would function in a similar way as to what you described in your example. they could hide potentially rule-breaking content, notify the rest of the team so they could be aware of it and possibly take further action if they needed to, but not have so much power that they could blow up the entire website.
i’m still not entirely sure about it all, but i’m just speaking my mind as i write this reply to your comment.
yeah, i think the "janitor" role would be a really good way to mitigate the potential harm of posts/comments in the meantime before it's reviewed by actual mods. obviously if one of the "janitors" misuses their privileges the role would have to be taken away though..
i fully agree with you 100%. of course, if a “janitor” gets their role taken away from them, they still wouldn’t have been able to cause as much harm to the website as an admin would.
i could pass this idea along to the rest of the team and see what they think about this idea of a “janitor” role being able to mark posts/comments for review…
also, if you do ever need anyone else, i'm on wasteof a lot (i also get desktop notifications for new messages) and wouldn't mind helping out! :)