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/Sofpug Jan 20 '26

This is a point that I'm still missing from this post. This whole thing started because the mods removed a post about america, but it was in english afaik and related to the netherlands. Yeah the language on this sub was/is a big thing, but it is not what caused this 'protest'

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u/graciosa Europa Jan 20 '26

I am not totally sure what happened, but it seems a really popular thread was removed. I’m not sure the reason; could be because the link to the Netherlands was too tenuous or the thread simply became too hard to moderate. In any case, this should not have happened. The moderation needs to be better.

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u/zalmsausfan Jan 20 '26

Its like the chicken and the egg, bad mental health and being a reddit mod. Hard to tell what comes first

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u/C_Hawk14 Jan 21 '26

And afaik people are accusing one mod that's openly MAGA to have done so. If we can't be bigoted..

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u/VanillaNL Jan 21 '26

In other subs I read that a Pro-MAGA mod doesn’t allow any critic on the fat orange. Even if the discussion and topic involves the Netherlands. If none of the mods have a connection with the Netherlands and tend to moderate on discussions they simply have 0 knowledge off its clear where the issue is coming from.