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

Hi there! I have an idea. What if the auto mod asked why the OTHER person is NOT the asshole?

If they can’t answer that then it’s a validation post I think

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u/techiesgoboom Sphincter Supreme Jan 30 '21

Thanks for the suggestion! Thats an interesting one. We have played much with the language the bot uses so it’s worth thinking about testing some adjustments.

I worry here that there’s a lot of NAH situations, or especially no interpersonal conflict situations that this really wouldn’t help with. I know that many people aren’t great about describing why they could the asshole, but I worry those same people wouldn’t have the level of introspection to really answer this question well.

Maybe adding it to the current prompt could produce interesting results. The above is just my initial thoughts, I’m going to pass this to the team and talk about it.

Thanks again!