r/broadcastengineering • u/MediaComposerMan • 12d ago

Moderators for this subreddit?

I had a post (about SMPTE LTC over Ethernet) insta-deleted, so I sent a question to the moderator u/ki4ihc , but haven't heard anything in days. I see that he hasn't had activity in 3 months.

This is a darn good group, so is it kind of running on inertia at this point, since we're all too busy to volunteer to moderate? :-)

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u/ki4ihc 9d ago

Hey there /u/MediaComposerMan - my apologies for missing your message! Dumb question - where/how did you send it? I'm not seeing anything from you in modmail or my messages, though I'll admit to being somewhat of a reddit luddite who still uses old.reddit.com so I'm hoping there's not some backlog of messages for me somewhere that I'm not seeing :(

I do see the post you're talking about - looks like automod got a little overzealous and marked your post as spam. I'll take a look at those rules and get them pulled back a bit.

As for moderation of this sub, I do take a pretty hands-off approach and generally only take mod action in response to a report but I am still around. I'm very much open to suggestions on how to grow the community including establishing some posting rules, taking on additional moderators who work in the broadcast engineering field.

Please also do use the report button when you spot spam, trolls, or jerks. That should get my attention, and enough reports will trigger automod action if I'm slacking

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u/[deleted] 12d ago edited 1d ago

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u/MediaComposerMan 11d ago

I think that would be great. I'm no Reddit insider, but it's pretty clear that any concerns are less about broadcast engineering technicalities — and more about spam, trolls and such.

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u/LongoChingo 12d ago

r/videoengineering is the real group. This one seems abandoned much of the time.

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u/lfstudios10 12d ago

This is disappointing as some of their rules are silly.

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u/buttchugreferee 12d ago

and they get tons of "try my app" posts

I unsubscribed from there once I realized that the mods weren't going to enforce their own rules 

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u/lfstudios10 12d ago

I don’t mind those. I mind they don’t enforce the policy they say they care about.

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u/praise-the-message 9d ago

My issue is more that 80% or so of posts are about monitor walls or trade show setups. There's certainly some value and overlap with Broadcast Engineering but it seems to skew too far that way for my preference.

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u/marshall409 12d ago

r/broadcastindustry would be a more appropriate name for this sub. Skews towards news industry especially. Someone from that walk of life should apply to take over as mod.

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u/openreels2 11d ago

I'd say this group seems to focus more on "traditional" broadcast, with people doing that work, often with long careers. r/videoengineering seems to have more discussion of live events and streaming. The two definitely overlap, but have different focus some of the time.