To be fair, reading and writing feel more like a natural ability I was born with, over a skill I developed over many years. For context: I was reading single words and short phrases at age 3. By 8, I had read my parents entire encyclopedia library. While I can see pictures in my mind’s eye, my thoughts are generally visualizations of words themselves. I hope this doesn’t come off like a brag or anything… I’ve always just found it weird because most people I talk to do not experience this.
You’re above average. Having a minimum of reading comprehension already qualifies you as a mod. You don’t need to know much about a given topic to mod the obvious trolls. But… you’re only one person, no matter how fast you read or write, you have a limit, and you shouldn’t go above it or you end up halfassing the job, or what users call “power tripping” (not taking context into account, blindly relying on user reports or votes just to get things out of the way, etc.).
While I can see pictures in my mind’s eye, my thoughts are generally visualizations of words themselves.
There were some interesting discussions about imagination, aphantasia, internal monologue, and different ways of internal perception on Reddit… they’re likely gone now (at least for my part).
To be fair, reading and writing feel more like a natural ability I was born with, over a skill I developed over many years. For context: I was reading single words and short phrases at age 3. By 8, I had read my parents entire encyclopedia library. While I can see pictures in my mind’s eye, my thoughts are generally visualizations of words themselves. I hope this doesn’t come off like a brag or anything… I’ve always just found it weird because most people I talk to do not experience this.
Yep, definitely a redditor
You’re above average. Having a minimum of reading comprehension already qualifies you as a mod. You don’t need to know much about a given topic to mod the obvious trolls. But… you’re only one person, no matter how fast you read or write, you have a limit, and you shouldn’t go above it or you end up halfassing the job, or what users call “power tripping” (not taking context into account, blindly relying on user reports or votes just to get things out of the way, etc.).
There were some interesting discussions about imagination, aphantasia, internal monologue, and different ways of internal perception on Reddit… they’re likely gone now (at least for my part).