Help Moderate r/NorthCarolina!

Hey there, r/NorthCarolina -

We could use a little more help moderating our subreddit. As you might've noticed, we've grown a lot over the years and had a lot of help building and strengthening this community.

There are many members of the mod team who aren't on anymore, so first a huge thanks to the team that has founded and maintained this community for almost 17 years. The moderation list is not a reflection of everyone who has gotten us to almost 430k users, nor is it a list of the "owners" of the subreddit. It's your space, and we do our best to balance being good stewards of the community and making decisions to keep us on a growth trajectory.

Put simply, we want this to be a place for all North Carolinians to hang out on reddit, and we think the steady growth and activity of this subreddit are a testament to that.

We continue to grow at a pretty steady clip: we have had a net gain of 3.5k users over the last month and posts here had about 3.4M views; 44.6k of those are unique users - so people are not only coming here or seeing your posts hit r/all, but many are landing here and hanging around!

We're also one of the few statewide subreddits that sees activity from elected officials, past and present - including our very own Attorney General of North Carolina, who has shared recent updates on his office's response to NC-related current events - which speaks to the importance of this space in not only connecting with redditors from North Carolina, but for speaking to the broader reddit community about North Carolina.

To help keep our community strong and welcoming, we'd like to add a few new members to the moderator team to help manage our busy moderation queue. Our moderation style has been consistent over the years:

• We don't actively patrol the subreddit looking for things, but rather rely upon user reports and go from there.
• We check our politics at the, uh, mod door and enforce our rules and standards evenly - even when we don't necessarily agree with the content or it means removing something we personally support.
• We try to let discourse continue, even when it can get heated, so long as users obey both our subreddit and reddit's sitewide rules. Slapfights that carry on for days or spiral out of control will be locked or removed.
• We remove hate speech and discriminatory content as quickly as possible (and rely on the community to report it to us and reddit)

If you're interested in joining our team and think you're up for the task of fairly, evenly enforcing these rules and standards, please send a modmail to us stating your interest and experience in moderating a community, whether it be on reddit or elsewhere.

We'll take "applications" for the next couple of weeks and make an announcement when we've added some new team members.

Thanks again for being a part of this community.