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solinv

SubredditDrama[Meta] How about some actual drama?

All I'm seeing these days is assholes/trolls getting called out on bullshit. There's no actual drama. Just someone being a troll/asshole and getting called out on it. It seems like everything that is posted belongs in either r/conspiracy or SRS. It's negative by 10+ and there's one guy arguing against a bunch of people calling him a moron.

How about some actual drama and less circlejerking? This isn't a place to post horribly downvoted comments that the commenter argues into oblivion. It's a place to post actual drama.

NEWSFLASH: If it was posted in MR it's not drama unless it's specifically about SRS and vice versa.

This is not a sub to advance you political agenda or point out dumbasses. It's a place to look at real drama and butthurt no matter whose butt hurts. A one sided argument isn't drama. It's pathetic.

Posted Aug 6, 2012, 2:51 AM UTC

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david-me•

It's still summer. Wait for the kids to go back to school.

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david-me•

You are quite right! So then do we start creating submission rules and deleting posts? I don't think that would work. We cannot control what people submit or what others will upvote. So far I have seen JR and Sisko doing a really good job at removing junk submissions, but me cannot just start removing posts because they are not to our liking.

I like using the popcorn analogy. Some prefer plain, butter, salt, caramel, cheese, hot, cold, this brand or that. It is all popcorn and I would leave it up to our subscribers to decide if it is their flavor or not.

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david-me•

I think it just cycles through different phases. For me the SRS/MR/LGBT stuff is all stale unless it is RobotAnna AADworkin or Lauralai. But there are some (newbs?) that just eat that shit up. And as far as the trolls are concerned, often times we don't know they are trolls until it is too late.

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zahlmanMOD•

If you think something isn't drama, then report it (and please also message the moderators to make your case, or at least leave a comment in the thread).

It's negative by 10+ and there's one guy arguing against a bunch of people calling him a moron.

People arguing and people getting downvoted are pretty much the definition of drama. I don't understand what you are complaining about.

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TwasIWhoShotJR•

Honestly.

We've got the libertarians and EPS using SRD as a battleground.

SRS and MR using SRD as a, "gotchya moment," cork board for shit only they really care about.

GoT is constantly posting their own drama here for what I can only assume is an attempt to bore us to death.

And it's hilarious. If it's drama it stays, if it's not it's gone.

Then we have all of these people, OP included, who make meta posts, and send mails, and reports, and IRC, "discussions," about how terrible all of this bias is, while simultaneously, and transparently soap boxing their own opinions on the matter

If it was posted in MR it's not drama unless it's specifically about SRS and vice versa.

Coming from you, is that supposed to be irony? Or what?

I digress. So we all notice the biases, and mal-intentioned posts here in SRD, and the fact of the matter is, every person here is biased in their own way. While there will always be people who dislike a specific thread (usually because they agree with the, "villian" if there is one, or it's too short, or too in-depth, or a boring subject..this list is infinite) or an entire form of drama, there are people who enjoy it, and that is why it is literally impossible to eradicate.

If it gets posted, upvoted, and discussed, it stays. That's the norm (unless it's just really terrible/dox/you know). We do our best to remove obvious bias, and the moderation team's broad perspectives make that task occur in the least biased way I think is possible.

tl;dr Equal opportunity drama.

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AgonistAgent•

Still don't have any MLAS1 reps in the team.

wink wink nudge nudge cough

And really, neutral drama is boring most of the time - unless someone goes completely and utterly insane or touches a hot button issue, drama in smaller subs just gets a few votes, maybe 10-40 while something like the "taxation is rape" post I had will hit the 100+ mark.

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NowISeeTheFunnySide•

Be part of the solution and submit better drama. Downvote the crappy stuff. I'm always late to the party. When I find something decent, it's usually already been submitted.

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[deleted]•

You have submitted zero things to SRD. You can't really judge the quality when you don't help out yourself.

The front page of SRD moves slow enough that we don't yet need to start getting more picky on what is and isn't drama.

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kurin•

As long as it's people logging into the computer specifically to get mad at other people they've never met, it's all good. But I do agree it's more entertaining when the drama is about a subject that it would never occur to me could be contentious.

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Patrick5555•

The subs intention is not to advance political agendas, you're totally right. But drama is drama and if it just so happens to make villians out of your pet issues, oh well :)

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