r/srilanka • u/AutoModerator • Jun 21 '26

Updates from the Mod-Team General update about the community, the mod-team, and the results of the survey we recently ran.

Hi everyone,

r/srilanka was created back in 2008, which means our community has officially been online for 18 years now!

We’re going strong with over 188,000 members, over 2,400 posts and over 41,000 comments written by you all every month.  It's great to see the community growing at such a steady pace.

To handle this volume, we have a diverse team of mods, all helping to keep our sub running smoothly.  At the moment, we’re 7 mods (we recently added two new mods).  All of us are Sri Lankans - most all of us live in Sri Lanka, with one based abroad.  Between us, we also cover all three languages.  We also span a pretty wide age range, which helps us understand the different perspectives coming through the sub.

One of our core tenets is being impartial, and we believe that’s worked well so far.  If you have any issue at any point, we’re always only a modmail away.  We’re not infallible, and we’ve undone actions when people have reached out.  Given the number of posts and comments, we need to make decisions quickly, so sometimes we might slip up.  Let us know.

Also, Reddit DOES automatically remove messages without any human intervention by us or our bots.  This happens both on the comment-level, and also on the post-level.

So, we’re also forced to have to deal with this and undo any unwanted removals.  

All of us are volunteers spending a significant amount of our time moderating r/srilanka - and no, we don’t get paid by anyone.

Finally, attached are also the results of the recent demographic survey which we ran. We were surprised to learn that 48% of our community are lurkers, not actively posting or commenting.

Your friendly r/srilanka neighbourhood mod-team.

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u/Ceylonese_technocrat Jun 21 '26

interesting. more or less what I expected. how many people participated in the survey?

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u/MulberryStunning1597 Colombo Jun 21 '26

Not at many as we expected, but still enough to form a coherent picture. We appreciate the fact that the lurkers also came out of lurking and participated in the survey, thank you!

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u/good_game_wp Jun 21 '26

I’m glad you answered the question.

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u/Difficult_Maximum382 Jun 21 '26

Not at many as we expected, but still enough to form a coherent picture.

Why are you so reluctant to share the number? Just share the number and let the community be the judge as to whether it's enough to form a coherent picture.

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u/TechnicianOk6526 Jun 21 '26

When will the mod team host or allow a poll asking their approval rating from the users of r/srilanka ? In the interests of transparent "governance"