Square footage is whatever you want it to be!

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Its incredibly hard to determine who somebody really is even in real life in your day to day with people you see constantly. I wouldn't be too hard on yourself about the situation. You did what was right and you are actively working to fix any lingering issues. Id say your actions were justified in trying to help your community and adding a new mod who you believed would do that, and as soon as you saw the situation in the sub you acted quickly, and even engaged in the side sub I created and let people know what was going on and what you were doing to fix it.
Don't put this on you. There is honestly not a lot of people moderating who would have been as diligent and respectful through this.

I would add however, it may be best to not ever hand off the top mod position so there is always an ultimate option to have somebody that I think we can all agree is pretty sane and reasonable who is able to handle any moderator related issues. Any new mods you bring in will be able to do anything you would anyway given the permissions, but they wont be able to remove you, and you will still be able to remove them. Its really nice to have that failsafe in place.

"Absolute power attracts the absolutely corruptible" - Frank Herbert

That land would be worth more without the house on it

It's cheap did it need a lot of work. I think the average price for a house is 300K. in a decent area. Springfield has really gone downhill though.

Property values also go down significantly once you approach a highway too.

Again. They’re phasing. The final master plan shows a much better product. It unfortunately just takes time.

Master Plan

You are both professionals so your employment options are broader than mine where.

Last tip: learn to pronounce our town names. You’ll be happier.

If you want a laugh, here is a video of Americans trying to pronounce Massachusetts towns.

https://youtu.be/AckzNzbF5E4

Assembly Row is truly garbage. It's a suburban shopping mall masquerading as a pedestrian shopping center. Look at the actual buildings there: they're largely parking structures. Parking everywhere. And the only grocery store in that area sits in front of a massive parking lot. The streets there are awful to cross because they're four lanes wide.

Absolutely

Remember to cut out your $5/day coffee purchase and then you can save up for this gem.

That's only 60,000 days to save up!

What do you mean you don't want to wait 164 years? Well then only save up for a 20% down payment.

That's still almost 33 years at 5 dollars a day.

Totally achievable /s

Fully agree. Well said.

Agreeing with other folks who replied to my comment.

To be clear, Mass folk aren’t unfriendly or rude. Just private. And it’s totally a cultural thing.

As a general rule, old school New Englanders are raised to really not talk about 1) money and 2) our feelings.

The curse is that like every position of power, the people who seek it out the most often are generally not the best of the bunch to hold the position.

Many large subs are moderated by the same network of mods. These people don't get paid for the position. Why do they want it so bad? Having a sense of power has to be one top reasons.

>Why make people walk outside when the weather is bad so often?

Because people will do it and they don't have to heat and cool the space.

Sticking with transparency, won’t be removing meta posts. The account has been deleted so as much as I don’t want to amplify any harassment going their way, they have taken action to not receive more harassment, anyway…

I mean hell Sudbury needs transit badly, we have exactly one bus stop and that's it. I hate it I don't have a car so I wind up wasting a bunch of money on uber anytime I need to get somewhere.

There’s a tiny house in my hometown on the market for 265k on a very small, undesirable plot of land. The listing on Zillow even says that the house requires a full remodel or needs to be torn down completely.

265k for a shitty peace of land across from 2 gas stations smh

Don't beat yourself up! The way everyone fought & raised hell should show you how it was a community worth fighting & raising hell for, and I think that shows people appreciate your mod approach. (Also thank you for not taking this down, I was worried it was off-topic, this is so cathartic.)

The pumpkin decorating the burned out front porch is top tier comedy.

After looking at that subreddit and his posts, my assumption was that it was a karma farm: post a thousand 1-sentence new submissions, get them upvoted a half dozen times by bot accounts or other subreddit posters, and you've got several thousand post karma. Keep that up for a few weeks and you're into the hundreds of thousands, and then you leverage that to, say, ask to be made a mod of a legitimate subreddit.

They did not mention any job with Facebook when they applied to be added as mod, that was first I heard of it yesterday.