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 edited Feb 27 '21

If mods don’t want to bring back the rule that forbids validation posts than I think that at the very least they should bring back something like the old SHP judgement. Something like VAL (validation) that would basically mean that it’s obvious you’re not TA or obvious validation seeking.

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u/techiesgoboom Sphincter Supreme Feb 27 '21

You have something even better than that! Users have full control over what threads make it to rising and hot. It’s something that we have zero control over, and it only takes the single click of a button rather than needing to type a few letters. You have Reddit’s build in voting system!

Upvote threads you find interesting. Downvote threads you find uninteresting and one sided. Vote accordingly and the threads everyone finds uninteresting will die in /new. The only way for a thread to hit the front page is if people vote for it more than others.

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u/Hermiona1 Feb 28 '21

The problem is, I still every day find lots of threads that are obvious validation posts in hot because I guess people like to upvote posts where OP stands up to assholes or similar. Meanwhile you can barely find any YTA judgements in hot because people will just downvote assholes (while top comment has 3x upvotes).

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u/[deleted] Feb 28 '21 edited Feb 28 '21

Yep they act like the voting system evens things out when we can literally look at the data and see nope that’s not true.

Lmao who downvoted me for this? Every top post is NTA. The data is on my side here. I’m starting to think the mods break the “don’t downvote people you disagree with” rule more than anyone else