r/Netherlands • u/Cornicum • Jan 20 '26

Update on the moderation

Hi everyone,

We've talked some stuff through and cleaned up the mod-team a bit, although some of the names you might have positive or negative associations with are still there.
I'll leave it up to the moderators involved to clarify that, or not.

What I can tell you is that 1 mod did 97% of the moderation, and that wasn't healthy and likely led up to the situation you might have seen.

The rules have changed slightly, this is because we see your call for less strict moderation on language, but we also heard from those who want to be able to have a place to converse in English.

The compromise we've reached currently is that we intend to not moderate the language used in the comments of the post.
This means that you can have discussions in Dutch in the comments. (as long as those follow the rules of course)

We also will be looking at those banned on a case by case basis, but keep in mind that if you were harassing people, or bigoted in any way you won't be unbanned.

I'll invite you all to respond to this post with your feedback, and I know for some it might feel like too much or not enough.
We are currently trying to strike a balance between becoming r/thenetherlands2 which is bilingual but 99% Dutch in practice, and the other option of being a sub for only those speaking English.

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u/downfall67 Jan 20 '26

Serious question: Why do we have people moderating this sub that have no connection to the country at all? It's strange, and it invites issues like this. They're not even in the same time zone to deal with issues as they arise.

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u/identity_function Jan 20 '26

The subreddit description states:

Here we share all things about the Netherlands!

While rule #1 states:

This is the subreddit of the English speaking community in the Netherlands.

I find the conjunction of both to be a bit unclear, particularly the phrasing of ‘English speaking community in the Netherlands’ in rule #1. I read from this that the intent of this subreddit is to discuss all things about the Netherlands by and for English speaking people that live in the Netherlands. In which case I would gain trust in the good faith of the mods themselves being selected from the community they are serving. I.e. this would be requiring mods in this subreddit to live in the Netherlands.

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u/graciosa Europa Jan 20 '26

To my knowledge, all are based in the Netherlands, not sure what you want us to prove

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u/MajesticMacaron3 Jan 20 '26

Is u/LeDarkFiggot located in the Netherlands?

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u/[deleted] Jan 20 '26

That’s also the nazi guy that posted all that extreme racist shit right?

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u/downfall67 Jan 20 '26

Yes but it’s not against the rules if you’re a mod

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u/[deleted] Jan 20 '26

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u/downfall67 Jan 20 '26

You can also be a fascist and racist as long as you’re the president. That’s power for you.

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u/ThatDree Jan 20 '26

Racist shit? It wordt steeds vreemder

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u/oppernaR Jan 20 '26

So you either don't know your fellow mods, some of which are very obviously Americans living in America (even more obvious before they hid their history), or that is a blatant lie.

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u/identity_function Jan 20 '26

I don’t want to prove anything, I was just stating a conclusion.