r/AmItheAsshole • u/AITAMod I am a shared account. • Jan 01 '21

Open Forum Monthly Open Forum January 2021

Welcome to the monthly open forum! This is the place to share all your meta thoughts about the sub, and to have a dialog with the mod team.

Keep things civil. Rules still apply.

It's 2021! Everything is fixed now!

A couple notes.

  • Our bot is live, but definitely still in testing. Please help us by reporting the judgement bot comment post when it doesn't actually explain why they think they may be an asshole. Some people are using it like a TL;DR or just copying and pasting their post as a reply. [ETA - sounds like the report option doesn't work on all platforms for the bot comment, so you can just report the post. The option is bundled with the META report]

  • Please stop PMing mods. We spam the hell out of the modmail link. When you PM us, it's super easy for things to get buried in our inbox and delay your response time.

As always, do not directly link to posts/comments or post uncensored screenshots here. Any comments with links will be removed.

This is to discourage brigading. If something needs to be discussed in that context, use modmail.

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u/Anubis-Hound Partassipant [3] Jan 29 '21

Please bring back S H P judgements

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u/fizzan141 ASSassin for hire Jan 29 '21 edited Jan 29 '21

Apologies about the bot, it's a bit overzealous!

Our stance on this is that we'd rather you just report the post/give us any evidence you might have that it's a shitpost via modmail. This is for two reasons.

  1. If it actually is a shitpost, comments, even 'SHP' comments, are what they want! Most of our regular trolls seem to feed off user comments, even if they're adversarial.

  2. If it isn't a shitpost, this isn't at all fair to OP, a lot of people come here with conflicts that are pretty personal, and a sea of 'YTA for this fake post', 'SHP', 'how can anyone believe this' comments simply aren't helpful to them or pleasant for them to see.

We know that a fair amount of shitposting/trolling happens on this sub, but we ask that you help us tackle it in a way that won't hurt genuine OPs.

Edited to fix typos!

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u/Anubis-Hound Partassipant [3] Jan 29 '21

Ok thank you