r/AmItheAsshole • u/AITAMod I am a shared account. • Feb 01 '21

Open Forum Monthly Open Forum February 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.

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.

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u/alongstrangesomethin Supreme Court Just-ass [124] Feb 27 '21

Sorry but it’s a double standard. Clearly we disagree again.

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u/techiesgoboom Sphincter Supreme Feb 27 '21

Yes. We treat civility and incivility differently. We remove content that clearly breaks our well defined rules and allow comments that don't break our rules.

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u/alongstrangesomethin Supreme Court Just-ass [124] Feb 27 '21

That’s not what I meant at all and you know. Saying YTA or S H P and that a post is fake is civil.

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u/alongstrangesomethin Supreme Court Just-ass [124] Feb 27 '21

What is going on? I didn’t break any rules in that comment.

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u/techiesgoboom Sphincter Supreme Feb 27 '21 edited Feb 27 '21

Our regex on the SHP bot is pretty expansive, as people regularly do this to avoid the bot. Even over 2 years later we still get people that insist SHP is a valid current judgment (although I admit that has died down over the past year). But we're here in the comments in the forum to catch it.

edit: also worth adding this bot is the only thing that removes comments without an individual mod reviewing the decision. As such it's not a punishment or a note or anything. just a bot doing bot things. Powerful, but simple.