TL;DR: This sub is very populous and active. Many voat users want to subscribe to know what's going over at that other site, but rightfully don't their front page dominated by posts they consider irrelevant. Please help me in raising the post quality here a little bit.
Long winded Genghis_Khan text:
If it's not already obvious, I am pretty lenient with how I moderate this sub. Fact is, I see this place as serving a dual purpose. Openly, this is a place to post and have discussions on the latest news and current events (and controversy) happening at that other site. The slightly more subtle secondary purpose is that it is a place for frustrated users to let out some steam instead of yammering incessantly about reddit in other subs. However, since many people here are often in the same state of mind, it isn't surprising when some - and I'm just being honest here - substandard content gets upvoated and made very visible.
So what am I considering substandard content?
- A reaction gif
- An image macro (not to be confused with a meme)
- A text post along the lines of "I left reddit because of [reason]"
- A post announcing the user was shadowbanned
- A post about the ex-CEO that is fucking irrelevant (seriously, this is not an Ellen Pao hate sub)
- A screen shot of a post that has already been linked to or archived and is on the front page
- A direct link to a post that already has a screen shot or an archive link on the front page
- An archive link to...I think you get it. Please read the sub before posting.
Do you see where I am going here?
The fact is, if things keep trending the way they are now, I'll have to become more active as a moderator. Eventually, I'll be overwhelmed and need to add more moderators, who will in turn act accordingly. In the end, what we will likely see is a reversal from the relaxed nature the sub currently has to one where if your post doesn't meet certain criteria, it will have to be removed. I would much rather the user base simply be a little more choosy about what they submit and what they upvoat.
Remember, this is not reddit. Many of the types of posts that are acceptable there are simply not up to par here (unless the sub is specifically for those types of posts). For being one of the top subverses, this one has been lagging a little behind in this regard. Since I know for a fact that the low effort "shitposting" is a primary reason many people here left the other place I think it's time we stepped it up a little bit.
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[–] 1005863? ago
Not going to lie, seeing the endless "news" posts that just quote the same archived comment/post from reddit is partially hilarious, partially frightening in terms of the spin of it all, and partially annoying that it is just the same content, with a different logo in the corner. Or all the news reporting on B. Blount leaving, all putting their own opinion, re-editing the re/code article. Then again, when "new light is shed on Victoria Taylor's firing" was just the same u/yishan quotes being published on yet another click bait site, I sighed, i really wanted new light to be shed, if only to justify certain tinfoil with regards to what is going to happen with IAMA on reddit (and I considered IAMA a fucking joke, when Bad Luck Brian was not interesting enough to justify an IAMA, where it didn't jive with everything else they do, will admit to upvoting all the top comments to Snoop Dogg/Lion's AMA back in 2012, and thinks it sad that an author resorted to doing a "secret AMA")
You might want to consider a sticky/real time discussion for tomorrow for spez' talk with the community about which subs have no place on reddit. Because we all want to watch that ship set sail, sink, or just burn in place, providing a nice bonfire to pop the corn. And even if it is smooth sailing with cheering, and fanfair, it will be a story here, along the lines of when the music died / prepare to deal with these "toxic communities" to hit voat.