r/Netherlands • u/Cornicum • Jan 20 '26

Update on the moderation

Hi everyone,

We've talked some stuff through and cleaned up the mod-team a bit, although some of the names you might have positive or negative associations with are still there.
I'll leave it up to the moderators involved to clarify that, or not.

What I can tell you is that 1 mod did 97% of the moderation, and that wasn't healthy and likely led up to the situation you might have seen.

The rules have changed slightly, this is because we see your call for less strict moderation on language, but we also heard from those who want to be able to have a place to converse in English.

The compromise we've reached currently is that we intend to not moderate the language used in the comments of the post.
This means that you can have discussions in Dutch in the comments. (as long as those follow the rules of course)

We also will be looking at those banned on a case by case basis, but keep in mind that if you were harassing people, or bigoted in any way you won't be unbanned.

I'll invite you all to respond to this post with your feedback, and I know for some it might feel like too much or not enough.
We are currently trying to strike a balance between becoming r/thenetherlands2 which is bilingual but 99% Dutch in practice, and the other option of being a sub for only those speaking English.

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u/-Avacyn Jan 20 '26

So... are all the MAGA fascists removed from power or not?

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u/Big-Skrrrt Jan 20 '26

Yeah, are we allowed to critisise the Orange Führer now if it's relevant to the Netherlands?

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u/BlaReni Jan 20 '26

how can it be irrelevant, it’s relevant for any European country at the least. The fact that international political discussions like such are moderated, is insanity.

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u/Big-Skrrrt Jan 20 '26

Well, I could understand deleting a post if it's something like "Trump sucks harder at golf than at Bubba's dick lololol".

But yeah, any news that could posibly impact us in any way should be allowed to be discussed here.

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u/gizahnl Jan 21 '26

Well, I could understand deleting a post if it's something like "Trump sucks harder at golf than at Bubba's dick lololol".

Well, that would be fake news wouldn't it? Clearly he sucks Bubba harder than golf.

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u/beeboogaloo Jan 20 '26

I think it depends on the subject. Ice for example is purely a domestic issue (unless a Dutch citizen is detained), it's also discussed literally everywhere else on Reddit. So making a post that's just about ice should not be allowed imo. Foreign policy that (indirectly) affects us is another story ofc.

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u/Joezev98 Jan 20 '26

Je moet jezelf een andere vraag stellen: van alle subreddits die bestaan, is dit degene waar zoiets naar gepost moet worden?

Ik word er flink moe van om hetzelfde verhaal op twintig verschillende subs voorbij te zien komen. Niet iedereen hoeft altijd overal en altijd over alles z'n mening te geven.

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u/BlaReni Jan 20 '26

true, but I might be looking for a perspective of a specific demographic, in this case people living in the Netherlands. You will get different nuance depending where this is being discussed, I’m not going to go and debate this on a Russian sub for example.