u/AnorhiDemarche

Good evening everyone.

Over the past few years moderation on the subreddit has been very loose, mostly focusing on obvious trolls and discriminatory statements and other extreme comments. As the community is growing, particularly with the feedback of the sub being a bit toxic and aggressive, we mods want to check in on how youse lot want the community moderated. (If your preference isn't there just comment below and I'll adjust accordingly)

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Good morning everyone.

We have had a significant amount of feedback that the subreddit feels very divided. Many people have expressed they worry about saying things about certain cast members as they are sure people will respond very negatively and aggressively.

This subreddit had a similar issue in the past (albeit while it was much smaller) and we successfully managed it with a rule: No calling people stans, no posts complaining about stans. We found that without those sorts of posts both "sides" were able to feel less targeted over time, and speak with each other better over time. This rule recived a lot of positive feedback and was so successful we eventually stopped needing to have it at all.

If voted for the rule will be trialed for 1-2 months while we gain user feedback. Criticism of mods would be exempt as it was in the past, and any users who are suspected to be stans to problematic levels can still be reported to mods for investigation. Would youse lot like to have this rule again?

If you have any alternate suggestions or feedback please leave a comment below.

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We're getting recommended to a lot of people and should probably have more than one mod.

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Reply here with your experience, timezone, how long you've been here, and why you'd like to mod the subreddit.

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You can also send a modmail if you prefer.

NEW STANDARD

As of this post our abuse rules will be moderated to a new standard.

Previously words like (but not limited to) "groomed" and "exploited" were assumed to be in the non-sexual sense unless actually stated otherwise. It has come to moderator attention that a significant number of users, particularly those on the younger side, do not understand grooming or exploitation as primarily non sexual words and do very much mean sexually.

To avoid mods missing cases of people breaking the "No direct accusations of abuse beyond what has been shown." rule you will now need to specify in what way someone was groomed or exploited. This can be done by either

• Adding a descriptor
  Emotional grooming
• Pointing to a specific act of grooming
  Abby groomed Maddie by crying and asking why she didn't choose to come in to Abby during the sit-in
• or both
  Abby emotionally groomed Maddie to value Abby over Melissa by crying and asking why she didn't choose to come in to Abby during the sit-in

The wording of the rule remains the same, this is only a change in how we enforce language within that abuse rule.

Abuse discussion must follow the following rules

• No victim blaming
• No claims the victim is lying
• No speculation further than what has been said officially
• No direct accusations of abuse beyond what has been shown.

Expressing worry, talking about abuse red flags, discussion of abuse in general terms, ect are permitted and encouraged.

REPORTING

Please make sure reports are accurate! We have had a significant increase in the amount of people who are inaccurately reporting comments as CSAM or child abuse. This mostly happens in basic discussions about cast/crew.

Why not? I want their comment removed! They're mean or whatever!

When you report a comments as something extreme that means

• Admin (paid, act site wide) have to review it, taking time away from them being able to deal with the actual CSAM groups on the site
• Admin don't like having their time wasted. They can and will ban you from all of reddit for nuisance reporting.
• Mods (subreddit powers only. volunteers) look at the reported comment. See it has no CSAM or child abuse, approve the comment.

So please be accurate! Use the "custom response" option when reporting or message the mods via the "message mods" button in the dot menu of the sub's main page if you feel the available options aren't sufficient or it's too hard to explain in reports.

Ok that's all! Feel free to leave any feedback in the thread!