Delete, Delete, Delete
[Image of a base surrounded by enemy fleets, its own fleet completely wrecked and drifting through open space]
[A long, handwritten confession photo that reads something like: "The truth is, regarding this whole incident, we only tried to run a smear campaign on the gallery because the Loki Clan and Clan Leader Betelgeuse said they were going to burn the gallery to the ground… blah blah blah…"]
Words even needed? lol
The moment those small-time troll clans dared to encroach on what the Loki Clan considered their "specialty," the counteroffensive spilled well outside the gallery itself.
It didn't take long. The little clan that had been stirring up chaos lost everything and faceplanted straight into the dirt. Then an armband account presumed to be Betelgeuse went through and mass-deleted every remaining shitpost, locking down public opinion with ruthless efficiency.
Watching all of that, I quietly took my hand off the admin menu where I'd been about to hit "block" on Betelgeuse.
Once that minor little user feud wrapped up, the gallery — which had been completely paralyzed by the trolling — started functioning normally again.
Of course, "normally" was still very much by gallery standards.
[A hole packed full of shit lumps being spun round and round by a fi…
…What the hell kind of war have you people been fighting, staff.
The fact that my very first report as a newly minted mod armband was an obscenely horrific gore post left me with no choice. I deleted the thread, slapped the bastard with a full fifteen-day ban, and in that moment finally understood why the operators had told us, "We work without standards." I resolved then and there to conduct myself accordingly.
But the second I actually started managing the gallery with that mindset, it didn't take long before…
Just what kind of fun were people getting out of this eraser work that made them react so hard to it?
After roughly five hours of nothing but deleting gore posts and pure shitposts on loop, that particular epiphany hit me like a truck.
Wait a second. Now that I think about it, doesn't this only actually benefit you if you're a clan leader or at least an officer?
Among the rankers, practically everyone except me and the guy who was effectively tenth — the ones who just didn't bother mentioning it during introductions — was already in a clan. Holding a mod armband could function as a kind of reward system for them. But for someone like me, with no clan and zero interest in manipulating public opinion…
Aside from the eraser role of scrubbing grandma-and-grandpa scat, gore, and every other variety of unhinged garbage off the board, the position had absolutely zero value.
The feeling that I'd been thoroughly scammed began to bloom with alarming vigor.
Give me a real goddamn reward, you bastards. (1)
After careful deliberation, I arrived at my conclusion.
This miserable armband was a "reward" only convenient for people who already had some kind of power base. For a lone-wolf player like me, it was nothing more than an unpaid eraser for deleting grandpa-grandma shitposts and assorted gore. And of course, being handed something like that and told it was a prize was more than enough to send anyone into a blind rage.
Knead, knead.
"…I believe my neck vertebrae are about to give out, Commander."
"Just a little longer."
In a desperate bid to hold my mental state together, I'd dragged Jessica over and was currently working my fingers through those large, soft, wonderfully textured rabbit ears of hers, chasing whatever scrap of peace I could find.
But even so — after all the blood and shit I'd spilled thrashing through that event, the only thing I'd gotten back was eraser duty. Unpaid labor. There was no world in which I could just swallow that and move on.
I sat up from the break-room bed where I'd been lying, opened the gallery, mass-deleted every last one of those goddamn report posts, and resolved to vent my considerable irritation at the present state of reality.
[Proof of mass report-post deletions]
Look, I'll be honest — both before I got isekai'd here and after, I've never been much of a community person compared to most people, so maybe I just don't get it.
But straight up, I genuinely cannot understand how they thought handing out a mod armband and calling it even counted as a reward.
All I do is delete and delete and delete whenever some piece of garbage trash post gets reported
block some weirdo and delete
delete and delete and delete
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fuck if this is how it's gonna be then GIVE ME A REWARD you piece of shit game
Unfortunately, the comments under my heartfelt post — written by a genuine community baby — were almost entirely mockery aimed squarely at me.
Went back through everything he's ever posted — was hard to find 'cause he barely writes anything — and just looking at it, this guy learned community culture in the most half-assed way possible.
Like, the level of someone who picked up a few memes from outside and called it good?
Honestly if he'd actually understood what a mod armband was he never would've accepted it in the first place.
"Ah, these fucking idiots, I swear."
People with a power base behind them… take Betelgeuse, for example. If you had a clan and subordinate forces under you, then sure — using the armband to fortify your own faction and seize control of public opinion could absolutely count as a reward.
But for a solo player like me, a mod position like this had genuinely zero upside whatsoever.
Back when the operators had dragged me in, I'd mindlessly hit OK without understanding any of this… but even so, this was not okay. So I started looking through the comments under my own post—