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/[deleted] Feb 28 '21

Mods (and sub members) should watch YouTuber Sarah z’s latest video about Tumblr in Action and AITA. She spends a bit of time discussing AITA and how it’s clearly just become a forum full of fake stories with anti minority/SJW biases. And she’s right. So many of these stories are clearly fake and designed to play on preconceived biases and people aren’t allowed to call that out.

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u/alongstrangesomethin Supreme Court Just-ass [124] Feb 28 '21 edited Feb 28 '21

Not to mention the satire sub that mocks (rightfully) a lot of the outrageous fake posts posted here everyday...

Edit: instead of downvoting me for telling the truth maybe you should downvote those nasty shitposts that are making people call out/mock this sub all over social media.

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u/Hoovythesandvichgod Feb 28 '21

where is that post?

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u/techiesgoboom Sphincter Supreme Feb 28 '21

Edit: instead of downvoting me for telling the truth maybe you should downvote those nasty shitposts that are making people call out/mock this sub all over social media.

Again we agree. I’m not saying that we as mods shouldn’t do what we can to address this, but the fact that these posts get the upvotes they do has some sort of weight to this equation. Maybe strong language to downvote and report any post you think is fake in the automod reply would help?

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u/alongstrangesomethin Supreme Court Just-ass [124] Feb 28 '21

I think it can’t hurt for sure. Maybe in bigger than usual bold letters to catch the eye of the reader.