The moderator had some spot-on advice for anyone hoping to sharpen their observation skills. “Always start in the center! Ha! People tend to immediately frame the target in what we call ‘dead center,’ or right in the middle of the frame. This is our most removed content, as it provides zero challenge for the experienced ‘sniper hunter.’ If it’s not dead center, then zoom can be either your best friend or worst enemy. Your next best bet after that is to slowly scroll and look for breaks in the natural flow of trees, bushes, scenery, etc.” they suggested.
According to u/Electrical_Middle78, they and the other moderators are proud to have helped shape the r/FindTheSniper community into what it is today. The current team is actually not the original group of moderators who had created the subreddit in the start. The newcomers had a lot of hard work on their hands, but they dealt with all of the challenges very well.
“With our community growing from 50th-ish ranking to as high at #5 in popularity, obviously our user interaction has dramatically spiked. In addition to that, our first challenge was to tackle a backlog of roughly 9 years of unmoderated content. We decided as a mod team to create better communication channels between ourselves with the creation of a Discord mod channel,” the mod told Bored Panda.
“From there, we tackled the overarching root cause of our backlog: severely outdated rules. The next challenge was simple: update the rules and add some basic automation to enhance our user experience and limit the day-to-day hands-on that our quite small mod team needs to physically interact with,” u/Electrical_Middle78 said.
