Hey everyone, Chris, Lead Reddit Moderator here.
So, I just woke up about half an hour ago, and... yeah.
A lot of people seemed pissed. It's understandable, if I'm being honest. You put effort into something cool to show it off or you're having a good discussion about a genre that really provided inspiration and then, BAM! "Low-Effort Content." Yeah, it sucks.
And that's why we're changing that,
so here are a few things that are going to be changed:
1. We're going to get rid of "Rule 5: No low effort content."
For starters, we're going to be giving out explanations as to just why it was removed.
hings like AI art (which we're
tentatively against) or copying people's stuff without giving credit to them (giving people credit is good). Also, just calling it "Low Effort Content" just seems kinda lazy. It's a lot better to just be told what was wrong with the post, or what could be done to fix it.
There'll be a new Rule 5, but there'll be a lot more communication going on, because transparency is good.
2. The mod team's going to be a Hell of a lot more light-handed about this.
Yeah, that seems to be the root of all of this.
The mod team isn't really some group of people acting from ivory towers, and it shouldn't be. Pretty much all of us started off like you guys, as fans of the mod we all enjoy.
Heck, this subreddit is the only reason I have an account here in the first place.
But the problem, at least from what I can tell, is that we on the mod team need to be a little less remove-happy and on our end.
That's our bad, and we're changing that ASAP.
Also, the mods that have been more gung-ho have had a talking to, and they've agreed to ease up.
3. Feedback in general is good.
Okay, not LARP or telling us to go fuck ourselves.
Tell us where we can improve, so we can get back to being the community of craziness and Nazi-bashing that we all know and love.
4. Tangentially-related TNO stuff will be allowed.
Things like discussion about cyberpunk in relation to Guangdong, TNO-inspired art and all that good stuff?
We'll be sure to give these the greenlight from now on.
5. Appeals will be more straightforward.
If your post gets removed,
send it to modmail so we can look it over and address it ASAP.
6. We'll be re-evaluating the "Dead Horses" and looking for feedback.
We're not going to allow everything, but that's going to get a look-over to see if we should still have those, and
we're open to feedback.
Summary
Anyways, yeah. A lot of the problems over the last few months have been a whole lot of screw-ups on our end, from trigger-happy moderation, to rules that need fixing, to my own inactivity due to work.
A lot of people are upset, and it's understandable. A lot of it just didn't make sense.
We're sorry for all of this, and we hope you can see from the above that we are earnestly trying to fix these problems.
