New rule to increase quality and make moderation easier
Every post now requires a comment by OP that contains 3 things:
- Why does this fit this sub (summarize the face eating part)
- Context (not everyone can be familiar with politics woldwide)
- Source article (for example when posting a screenshot of an article)
An exception is of course when a post obviously doesn't need context because it is self explanatory.
You don't have to write a lot, just a few summarizing sentences. If you dont write the comment within a few Minutes your post will be removed. I hope that this new rule will make it easier for moderators and users to understand what the post is about (while also increasing the quality of content).
I will test this rule for a few days and make changes if neccessary, I will later decide if this rule will be permanent.
Please put feedback, questions and concerns under this post, I will read everything.
Update 1:
Set up an automod that reminds people in every new post.
Thanks to u/ObnoxiouslyPolitical for the idea!
Posted Jan 6, 2020, 3:38 PM UTC · edited
Holy shit this is stupid and onerous, if you don't have time to do some basic moderation why don't you hand it off to someone that does? Seems like a much more reasonable idea than "ok you took the time to find and post this story, now justify it or have it removed!" that's just idiotic.
This isn't going to increase quality of anything, it's going to reduce submissions, even good ones. The idea that you can't obviously see that based upon the ultra basic idea that making unpaid submitters DO MORE WORK will obviously and certainly decrease quantity and/or quality means you're not really qualified to be doing what you're doing in the first place. Another clue to this is you contradict yourself in this very post, you say "an exception is if content doesn't need context" but if you set up a bot to remove any post without the comment then that line is invalid because the bot isn't going to know if a post requires context or not, all it knows is "comment below me required or delete".
You asked for feedback.
no u
fucking lazy billionaire moderators
So far I only experience benefits from the test, I will let it run for at least one more week though.
Still, thank you for your feedback.
Yeah, this is a pretty simple rule that is common in a lot of subs. It works just fine.
Fuck, you're really dumb. Who pays the mods?
Obviously Russia.
That's impossible. Russia doesn't support gay rights.