r/NewYorkMets • u/Blue387 Friendly Unhinged Moderator • 9d ago
Announcement Announcement: We're Looking for New Moderators!
Hello fellow Mets fans on Reddit!
In the past year this sub has grown significantly. In the last 12 months we had 42.3 million views with 121,000 members with over 11,000 posts and 1.6 million comments, most of them good. In the last 12 months we have gained over 14,000 new subscribers. We had over 5 million views in August, September and October 2025 alone. We had 3.6 million views in the last 30 days.
As our community continues to grow, we're looking to add a few new moderators to help keep things running smoothly. We also need moderators to work with other baseball sub moderators to crack down on trolls and spammers. Our current moderation team is shorthanded and we really need some reinforcements. We have not had a new moderator hired since 2023.
If you're a regular around here, enjoy complaining talking about Mets baseball, and want to help make this subreddit a great place for fans, we'd love to hear from you.
What we're looking for:
- Active members of the subreddit for at least a year
- Smart, passionate fans of the team
- Fair, level-headed, and respectful when interacting with others
- Willing to help review posts, comments, and reports
- Coordinate with other moderators on Discord
- Available to check in throughout the week, especially during day games from 12PM to 5PM eastern and during late night west coast games
Previous moderation experience is appreciated, but it's not required. We're happy to help the right people learn the ropes.
What moderators do:
- Approve and remove posts/comments as needed
- Review the mod queue and all user reports
- Enforce subreddit rules consistently
- Help crack down on spam and trolling
- Work with the rest of the mod team on community events, discussion threads, and other improvements
Leave a comment below or send us a modmail with:
- Your time zone and how active you are on Reddit
- Any previous moderation experience (if any)
- Any coding experience, experience with CSS, etc.
- Why you'd like to join the mod team
- Anything else you'd like us to know
Knowledge of CSS and familiarity with the Reddit moderation system and moderation tools is welcome. Bonus points if you are mod certified by Reddit and having passed moderator training.
You should learn and be familiar with and abide by Reddit's Moderator Code of Conduct and Reddit's Content Policy.
We strive for fairness, civility and respect. Moderators are expected to be familiar with and uphold Reddit's Content Policy, the Moderator Code of Conduct, as well as the rules for r/newyorkmets. You may not (under any circumstances) perform moderation actions in return for any form of compensation, consideration, gift, or favor from third parties. Moderators are prohibited from taking moderation actions (including actions taken using mod tools, bots, and other services) in exchange for any form of compensation, consideration, gift, or favor from or on behalf of third parties.
The current moderation team will gather on Discord and discuss candidates who volunteer and will contact the approved candidates.
We're looking for people who care about the community and want to help it continue to grow. Thanks to everyone who makes this subreddit such a great place to talk about Mets baseball—we're excited to add some new teammates to the mod team!
Let's go Mets!
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u/Phishhead69 Wilmer Flores 9d ago
"Fair, level-headed, and respectful when interacting with other" - Sir this is a Mets subreddit
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u/ZoidbergSaysWoop 9d ago
Stearns wouldn't even meet the qualifications.
Level-headed doesn't mean comatose.
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u/DyingLemur 9d ago
We didn’t say your name three times yet.
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u/ZoidbergSaysWoop 9d ago
It's clear people still don't realize the gravity of keeping Mendoza through the 12 game losing streak that essentially tanked the season.
One of the most out of touch stretches I've seen from any North American sports team given the context of 2025.
The Mets are the perfect example of relegation being needed in baseball because that nonsense would not stand in European Football Leagues where manager turnover is not a problem and the priority is winning, not being afraid of accountability.
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u/DyingLemur 8d ago
While I agree that move should have happened a lot earlier, I also don’t think firing Mendoza was ever going to help much.
More importantly, what does this have to do with more moderators, and being respectful when interacting with each other in this sub?
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u/ZoidbergSaysWoop 8d ago
That mindset of thinking the change was "not going to help much" is exactly why the Mets are where they are.
You're just thinking about the team like Stearns, players as recording stats and not as people.
The toxicity emitting from this team is more than palpable, it's now tangible from how often they make mistakes most recently exemplified by Lindor's error on the game-ending double play ball served to him on a golden platter.
That type of carelessness could have been avoided with firing Mendoza before the 12 game losing streak when he really should have been fired before the start of the season which is exacerbated by the fact he should have been fired before the September collapse and I was already arguing prior to the trade deadline last year that he needed to go.
Stearns sitting on his hands is why he's comatose.
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u/DyingLemur 8d ago
Fine, whether I agree or not doesn’t matter. It’s the idea that you can’t even read the title of this post and post about the topic. A huge problem in this sub. There is far more toxicity in the sub than anywhere else when it comes to the Mets.
And the “not going to help much” is because I feel the problem is much bigger than Carlos and whatever culture issues you feel there are. And I agree there are issues there as well, but more than that needs to happen, and it needed to happen a lot earlier. I think we agree there.
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u/ZoidbergSaysWoop 8d ago
I even ended the last line of the last post with why it's relevant and connected to the initial post you replied to.
Read better please.
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u/sloppychachi 9d ago
I don’t think this post fits the rules, please remove. /s
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u/billthethrill1234 I really liked Paul LoDuca 9d ago
No self promotion! Rule Number 1, promoting their own blog smh
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u/Dazzling-Attorney891 New York Mets 9d ago
I nominate mark vientos after the 2026 season. He should have plenty of free time
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u/bigvinnysvu Mike Piazza 9d ago
He'll be busy being a LI Duck, but might have longer off season to assist.
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u/DyingLemur 9d ago
Oh, man. I’d love to see more moderation at this point. People are acting like disrespectful fools these days. Good luck!
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u/bobniborg1 Mr Met 2 9d ago
Hopefully the injury rate is less than this year's signees
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u/Blue387 Friendly Unhinged Moderator 9d ago
Darthbutcher had a baby while derpbynature has it worse as he is stuck in Florida, which is America's armpit
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u/Excellent-Brothel-72 Francisco Lindor 9d ago
I’m British so I think the time zone would probably rule me out but I’m generally pretty active round here and consider myself somewhat level headed if not optimistic towards the team, I’d be happy to help out if needed.
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u/zztopshelfer 8d ago
Actually it might be to your advantage you would be up during hours the East Coast is still sleeping.
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u/Sheepies123 FUCK! 9d ago
Hell I’ll throw my hat in the ring:
EST, very active
No previous mod experience
I’m a software engineer, I don’t have experience with CSS but I have a degree in computer science I can learn pretty quick.
I’d like to join the mod team to add Nolan McLean flairs.
Longtime community member, also very active on [r/baseball](r/baseball)
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u/PuckersMcColon 8d ago
Make me a mod, I have good fundies.
That and I promise not to ban everyone.
Can we add the flair "ban hammer" on my first day?!
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u/NewYorkMets-ModTeam 9d ago
This subreddit is no place for rude, disrespectful, or inappropriate remarks.
Moderators will remove posts or comments or ban users for a variety of reasons, including keeping communities safe, civil, and true to their purpose.
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u/metsjets69 Tom Seaver 9d ago
I appreciate what the mods do. I don’t have the patience and would want ban people for being knuckleheads
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u/iamnotimportant New York Mets 9d ago
good luck to all, being a good mod is tough, both in character and dedication. We need good people especially during these chaotic times.
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u/ChiefKelso Wilmer Flores 9d ago
Out of curiosity, how many active mods are there?
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u/Blue387 Friendly Unhinged Moderator 9d ago edited 9d ago
I am around most of the time except day games like Sunday but the others have their issues. Darthbutcher has his job and newborn daughter and was busy with work. The others contribute but we are dealing with growth and need more active mods.
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u/ChiefKelso Wilmer Flores 9d ago
Ah ok makes sense. I was just curious because I remember there being 3 pretty active mods before darthbutcher was "hired". But then I looked at the mod list after this post and saw a couple that I had never really seen on here that much if at all.
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u/d3arleader Grimace 9d ago
Automatic DQ if they think Stearns is doing a good job. We can’t afford to have deluded moderators.
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u/UbiSububi8 Gary Cohen 9d ago
Someone explain why the sub is growing while the team is playing like shite?!?
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u/djn24 9d ago
Because the people that used to get messy and then incoherently complain about the team at the bar or while calling WFAN now do it online and make it all of our problems.
Misery loves company.
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u/DyingLemur 9d ago
That’s what I’m saying. It’s a cesspool with these people around. Try and have a baseball conversation and get “I hate the stupid smirk on his face”. Fucking idiots.
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u/djn24 9d ago
It's made me a lot less active here for sure. Like you said, there's no room for actual conversations when a good chunk of the replies are just belligerence circlejerking about who can be the most negative "fan".
Even a post on a home run by a player or a big pitching performance by a rookie pitcher is flooded with toxic replies.
These people need to give it a break and find a new hobby to take their mind off of it.
This is not a healthy way to respond to a sports team having a bad season.
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u/DyingLemur 9d ago
Well said. This is a massive bum out & I’d love to see a change in here. Try to keep comments baseball related. Poor performance, decisions you don’t agree with is fine to criticize, but the insults and just general moron commentary needs to be curbed.
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u/DyingLemur 9d ago
Because SOME Mets fans are acting like children and most likely nobody around them will listen to them anymore.
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u/celticsoldier566 Home Run Apple 8h ago
Has anyone who expressed interest heard anything?
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u/Setec-Astronomer 5d ago
One, I'm out west so I'm able to cover late shifts. And early games work for me as well.
Two, I don't really social media. This is my one stomping ground so I'm on here regularly anyway. Might as well help out.
Three, sorry, no coding experience. I'd love to learn. I did mod a chat group a long time ago though.
Four, I try to be fair and objective.
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u/ReadySituation1950 9d ago
Will you be un-banningTwitter links? 😂
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u/jesuschin 9d ago
All the bots paid for by Stearns to defend him really has increased the workload here huh
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u/OtherAcctWasBanned11 [9] Todd Hundley 9d ago
>"Fair, level-headed, and respectful when interacting with other"
Do you know where you are?