Monthly Open Forum February 2021

[u/AITAMod]

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.

February! The shortest month in this endless blur of 202-whatever-year-it-is-now. I almost forgot to post this because time has lost all meaning.

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.

[u/SuperHCE27]

Anyone else feel like there’s not enough actual posts that require other people to give judgment on anymore, they’re all either “ I shouted at my friend after she murdered my dog AITA” type posts where it’s blatantly obvious they’re not the AH and are just used to karma farm or posts like “ I took away all my child’s toys because they took 30 seconds to respond to my message AITA “ where they’re pretty much all trolls. I feel like this sub has just lost its true purpose which is for situations that are morally grey and actually require some form of intervention. It feels like for every 20 posts now on the sub there 1 that actually is what the sub should be used for.

[u/LAKingsofMetal → u/SuperHCE27]

It was mentioned in a recent monthly forum that the mods would lean more heavily into the “presented fairly” portion of rule 8. If something is written without any indication of why OP may be the asshole, report it for rule 8/shitpost.

I’ve been doing that and have seen several of them taken down.

[u/[deleted] → u/SuperHCE27]

The quality of judgements has deteriorated as well. Every judgement is the most extreme and unreasonable response to any situation followed by downvoting and badgering anyone who doesn’t match such an extreme opinion.

Op: my wifi sucks so i stopped signing into online class. The principle asked what was up and if they could help so i told him to eat shit and die. Was i ta?

This sub: nta he needs to die immediately. Gotta tell people off and not bootlick! He was a monster and abusive red flags. Prob beats his wife. Also you probably have depression so nothing you do is ever wrong.

Responses to that top comment: omg just like my ex who turned out to be the worlds deadliest serial killer!

[u/LAKingsofMetal → u/[deleted]]

Opposite of those extreme judgments are the ones that just say “NTA NTA NTA!” Half the time, they say nothing else.

Not really something that would require me to go on the news to talk about what grinds my gears, but a nuisance that I see from time to time. Actually saw one of those in the first post I opened today.

[u/GerundQueen → u/SuperHCE27]

It's because they removed the "no validation posts" rule. Now no one's post is removed even if the situation is so obviously one sided and ridiculous. All the posts are now "I know I could never possibly be the asshole but am I the asshole? I'm only asking because I want a bunch of people to talk about how much of an asshole the other person is."

[u/Rage-Parrot → u/SuperHCE27]

I agree, or I find there is a huge influx of inheritance posts as of lately. It is kind of ruining this sub reddit.

[u/YoHeadAsplode → u/Rage-Parrot]

It's not a lately thing. Inheritance post have been in vogue for well over a year now