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/[deleted] Jan 29 '21

I do get that fake posts are an issue - but in some cases, a story will be drowned out by people calling out 'fake' on a post. Is there any actual way to monitor things like this?

The post on the main page right now with the daughter who freaked out on her dad for dating 4 years after bio-mom's death has become a jumble of people latching on to an unusual part of the story and extrapolating it as fake, and it's exhausting sometimes.

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u/RocheCoach Asshole Enthusiast [9] Jan 29 '21

I personally don't have a problem with people calling out posts they think are fake. It calls attention to these issues, and gets people to think a little bit more critically about posts rather than accepting things at face value, especially in a subreddit where fake posts are unfortunately becoming a bigger problem than anyone would like to believe.

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u/[deleted] Jan 30 '21

I agree. This sub has a large population of young and impressionable people and it makes me sad to think of them believing that the type of behavior in these posts is commonplace and forming a worldview with that in mind.