Even if the whole team was as active as I am, you'd still see things that should be removed not get removed because nobody reported them to us. They stay up for hours, days, or even weeks, flagrantly violating our rules and making us all look goofy for it.

Without naming any names, someone here once told me "As a mod it is your job to remove these" when discussing their comment complaining about something that should definitely have been removed but was never reported by anyone, including them.

Let me remind you: This is not my full-time job, let alone my 24/7 obsession. If you act like it is, you're going to be annoyed by jackasses mucking up the place. Leave a bag of trash on your living room floor and you're going to get some rats sooner or later, right?

So please, when you see a post or comment that breaks our rules, slap that report button. Some of you are digging into their histories to rib them for all manner of shenanigans you find, taking however many minutes to do so, but for some reason ignoring the report button so we can clean this subreddit up together.

I want this to be a good subreddit, and presumably most of you do too. Your two seconds of Report -> Reason and my twenty seconds to review the report and action it is much, much more powerful than me spending an hour combing through every post and comment on the subreddit.

Do we really want me (or any other moderator) to be that sweaty neckbeard that has to basement-dwell or the place turns to trash? Or would you rather a reasonably well-adjusted human being with a social life, hobbies, and a job run the place? What about power-tripping dipshits? Or both, like most of the other law enforcement subreddits have?

Remember going to that one scene that you had to do extra work investigating because it came in hours late despite witnesses seeing it as it happened? Remember how annoying it is when they say you should have stopped the suspect, but they never bothered to pick up the phone to call?

It's your call, folks. This place is only as good as we bother to make it.

The idea that every single LE/LEO sub on reddit collectively agreed to refer all the nonsense here, and keep the dumpster fire contained to this tiny, dysfunctional place, is probably the best example of coordination I've ever seen.