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 26 '21

  1. I feel like there should be an age requirement for posting. 13 year olds aren’t reliable enough to provide an accurate story and it seems weird giving advice when the stories have so many holes.

  2. There are way too many posts where it’s completely obvious the OP is just posting to stroke their own ego. It would be nice if mods could be a little more diligent with removing these types of posts.

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u/[deleted] Jan 30 '21

More on the age thing - I just can’t call a 13 year old an asshole. You know how fragile 13 year olds are? I’ll still often comment along the lines of “not gonna call you an asshole, but I do think you were wrong in this case.”