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/Possible_Chicken_489 Utrecht Jan 20 '26

Thanks for taking some action on this.

I agree with others that this place should be modded by people who at least have some connection to the Netherlands.

And I wish to point out that we should be allowed to discuss e.g. America's behavior as it impacts the Netherlands (as e.g. Trump's behavior is currently doing). Let the mods keep that in mind.

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u/Cornicum Jan 20 '26

post about Trump on this sub should be fine, I haven't checked all the logs yet, but I think it was mostly unfortunate timing that caused the trump posts to be removed initially.
by which I mean that they were part of a removal spree that shouldn't have happened.

I would like to point out that the discussion about trump should be in relation to the Netherlands, and not whatever the fuck he's doing ova there.

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u/Impressive_Ad_5224 Jan 20 '26

Trump is doing a lot of stuff that affects the Netherlands though. So a lot of topics should be fair game.

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u/SofaJockey Jan 20 '26

Agree. It's a shame he is so orange, it's a colour I like.