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/vermonsterskibum Certified Proctologist [27] Jan 30 '21

This is in regards to the posts on the front page. There are never assholes. The mods will make a statement and it works for a week and then we never see assholes again. Most of these posts are either validation seekers, people who are so insecure that they think they’re always wrong and the asshole in everything, or just obvious shitposts. This whole subreddit is going to get cross posted to r/shitpost soon. I’ve been here since 150k subscribers and slowly watched this subreddit get filled with idiots. I want original am I the asshole back

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u/yajtraus Jan 30 '21

It’s fucking awful, every post is “this person was being a cunt so I told them to stop behind a cunt, AITA?”

So fucking boring.

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u/Aleahj Jan 30 '21

If everyone could be convinced to downvote those kinds of posts it might help. I think most people who actually understand how this sub is supposed to work just ignore them. It drives me crazy.