Mods not showing up in /v/news to enforce rules (news)

submitted ago by thrus

I notice over and over articles coming up that you can look at the title an guess that the user is altering them. The recent one today spawning this was "Religion of Peace strikes again as 16 year old girl is burned to death in Pakistan" the actual title of the article is "16-yo girl burnt alive in Pakistan for helping couple elope". This item was 8 hours old when I saw it. I never see a note from the mods on these I have even made a point to alert the mods then check back later and nothing, so I decided to do some looking at the mods comment history for the last week in /v/news

amyacker - 0

forksandgusy - 0

system - 0

Typo - 20

So among them they spend enough time in the sub they mod for one of them to make 20 comments. In 7 days

This was even brought up 6 days ago in /v/newsmods by @unruly https://voat.co/v/newsmods/comments/1013254 and only typo responded.So I have to ask why have the rule about "User-editorialized titles are subject to deletion. State only the facts, not opinions or speculation." if it is never enforced?

Edit: I think I will partly take Typo's advice and just un sub /v/news Do I want heavy modding I'm not sure but I do want the ones that are written to be enforced especially when the mods know the rule is wanted.

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8Hz_WAN_IP ago

Normally voat grabs the pitch forks when they think the moderators are doing to much, I think it is going to take a long time for voat to find a happy medium.

thrus ago

Maybe but I have even tried being directly rude in some of my callouts to see if my comment would get deleted, nope nothing. leads to those of us trying to help getting disillusioned. You will notice I didn't call out the mods in this post, it wasn't to hide it I just honestly don't expect them to show up or comment even if I did so why take the time when my expectations are pretty much 0.

8Hz_WAN_IP ago

I don't know what you consider rude but I don't think that should warrant having a comment deleted, I used to moderation/admin a bunch of gaming forums and I always preferred a light touch. I agree that the voat moderators are sometimes too hands off but in cases when you are on the fence about something I would say leave it rather then delete it.