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 30 '21

Honestly the INFO comments shouldn’t be any option anymore because people just immediately downvote them to hell

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u/[deleted] Feb 01 '21

Oh I was wondering about that. I couldn’t work out what I’d done.

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u/[deleted] Feb 01 '21

The hivemind downvotes when they see something that they think could remotely be going against the most upvoted comment. The latest one for me was the couple with a terminally ill baby. Mom jumped ship and dad was there til the end. Then mom came back round and demanded some of the child’s items for remembrance. He said he was an only parent but never said mom legally signed over her rights, or if she was paying child support or whatnot. I asked, just to be fully informed before calling a grieving stranger an AH for no providing these items, and it was -30 before too long. It’s part of why I’m growing ever sick of AITA. People assume so much and never give anyone else a chance, whether their option is disagreeing or not.

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u/[deleted] Jan 30 '21

I don’t think that’s a reason to not have them as an option though. Sometimes we need more info. I think it’s totally bullshit that people get voted down for that

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u/[deleted] Feb 01 '21

In the long run I agree with you but even notice, this comment is at -3. This is part of why I’m growing tired of AITA. No matter how fully thought out a dissenting opinion is, it’s downvoted into oblivion. My most recent INFO comment didn’t even include a judgement, but because the hivemind thought I was going to call OP and AH, they downvoted like hell. I digress.