To learn more about this community that’s dedicated to celebrating amusing signs, we got in touch with an Administrator of Silly Signs, Baz Mattaz. He was kind enough to have a chat with Bored Panda and reveal how he got involved in this group in the first place.
“There I was, sitting around minding my own business, and from nowhere, I received a bunch of invitations to Admin some groups,” Baz shared. “One of them was Silly Signs. To be honest, I had no idea where they came from, but I accepted anyway.”
“Silly Signs had less than a thousand members, I think,” the Admin continued. “I had no idea how groups work. I hardly know anything now, to be honest. I gave it a bit of attention. Posted some signs I saw personally - I live in Vietnam and Asia, the home of the laughable typo.”
“Once it got to about 50K members, it started to get a bit time-consuming,” Baz says. “The spammers start to notice you. So I asked in the group if anyone would like to help out and got myself some really nice moderators.”
We were also curious about what it’s like managing this large of a group, as today, the community has over 155K members. “These groups tend to sprawl,” Baz noted. “But we stick rigidly to 'it must be a sign’. Sometimes it hurts removing really funny posts, but if it’s not a sign, it’s not coming in.”
Thankfully, the admin noted that the members are pretty mellow. “They don’t fight and bicker much,” he told Bored Panda. “We don’t allow [discussions of] politics or religion (even if it’s a sign), so nothing much to fight about.”
He also shared that, “Cracking the 100K milestone was a buzz for sure.”
Baz also says they take a pretty relaxed approach when it comes to deleting posts that fit the theme, as he understands that you can’t have fresh content 100% of the time.
“We don’t delete duplicates,” he noted. “Sometimes I swear that some people actually repost our own content. But to be fair, once something funny gets posted, it gets shared into other groups and can find its way back in.”
Lisa Childs Saunders, another moderator of Silly Signs, was also kind enough to chat with Bored Panda about her involvement in the group.
“Baz was looking for moderators, as the group was beginning to grow rapidly,” she noted. “I have 2 other groups of my own and moderate 2 groups. I really enjoy it.”
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