Please Remember About Forum Moderators

There’s only one group that’s happy to be laid off by AI and it’s group moderators!

In this time of year we should think about forum moderators. Here’s why. News are filles with headlines about how AI will replace everyone from a janitor to a president. But there’s one special group of people no one recognizes.

It’s forum moderators. I think for vast part of my readers it is a group that offered a shared experience. Almost as there was one forum moderator.

Whatever forum you used, on whatever topic, on any platform, if it was a official moderator or self reclaimed one. And this is special, because everyone on the whole world experienced it. If you are from United States, or from Kenia, you was in this exact same situation.

You needed some answers, search results didn’t give answers. So you registered at a forum, group, StackOverflow or Discord, asked your question, and you got this answer:

Google it!

How ungrateful was the work of a moderator that had to write it again and again when people just came to waste their precious time to ask ridicolous questions.

I even think lately it was even more prominent than ever where the burden of declining Google search results caused…