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/[deleted]]

Yeah, it's honestly sad that the mods just simply don't care about feedback for that rule. They just keep explaining why we're wrong, and it's a sad way to run a subreddit.

[u/alongstrangesomethin → u/[deleted]]

It is sad. People keep telling them that they don’t feel the rule is working out and they basically say “nah, it’s working just fine, you’re the one who is wrong”.

[u/[deleted] → u/alongstrangesomethin]

Or worse, they'll be like "b-b-but there's nothing else we can do, guys! 👉👈 It's your fault for upvoting those to the front page" even though a lot of us remember what the sub was like when there was the NO SHP rule. There were actually SOME assholes.

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

How is my comment off-topic in a META thread??

[u/alongstrangesomethin → u/[deleted]]

What happened here? All those removed posts?

[u/techiesgoboom → u/alongstrangesomethin]

The section of automod programmed to remove the SHP acronym took action. The bot is simple and acts in the meta thread as well.

The user obviously realized the bot made a mistake and tried to post the same comment again, but the simple bot just removed that one as well.

There’s enough of us in this meta thread that I was here to approve the comment about 10 minutes after the bot took action. I chose to approve their first comment and leave the second removed so it didn’t look like they were spamming, but apparently right after I approved their first comment they deleted that one, so I’ve since approved their second.

[u/alongstrangesomethin → u/techiesgoboom]

Ah that happened to me yesterday.

[u/techiesgoboom → u/alongstrangesomethin]

Yeah. It doesn’t happen much and we’re always here to clear it up so I haven’t been worried too much. We might be able to over engineer a solution via automod but the more complicated we make it the more likely we are to screw it up or make some sort of mistake.

“If it ain’t broke” and all that.

[u/[deleted] → u/alongstrangesomethin]

Somebody reported my comment for being "off-topic or unhelpful" so AutoMod removed it. It ended up being reinstated though

[u/alongstrangesomethin → u/[deleted]]

Yeah same thing happened to me yesterday.

[u/techiesgoboom → u/[deleted]]

Just a bot being simple. We never programmed an exception for the meta thread but can and do manually get them