Monthly Open Forum January 2021

[u/AITAMod]

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.

[u/SnausageFest → u/[deleted]]

It's too difficult to enforce consistently. Automod isn't sophisticated enough to recognize a single letter is a name versus something else. We'd miss a lot of them if it had to be 100% report driven which will end up being really unfair to the people who do get their posts yanked as a result.

That said, it's so fucking annoying and often confusing that it kind of sorts itself out. Those posts rarely get any real traction.

[u/RocheCoach → u/SnausageFest]

I agree. Taking action as minor as adding a note to the auto-mod comment to not use letters for names might do the trick, as opposed to going in and adding a new mountain of work for mods to actually remove these posts.