Well hello again everybody! This has been a wonderful past couple of days. I want to give a huge thank you to everybody who participated in my Under New Management post from Thursday. There was a lot of great feedback, and it will go a long way to helping me better understand all of your wants and needs for this community. Yay!
Yes, this will be wordy. Read it anyway. I will try to be concise.
I spent the entirety of Thursday afternoon and evening working through the over 600 reports that existed for the community. There are still a little less than 200 more left to work through. To be fully transparent, I was given the option of simply mass clearing all of the reports so that I could start with a clean slate. Halfway through, it was very tempting to take the powers-that-be (PtB) up on their generous offer. 😅 But, I wanted to see the reports and see what was being reported (and also by whom). Again, this is my way of learning about this community and its members.
The first thing I want to say is this: for the time being, I have decided that @[email protected] is allowed to stay – with conditions. I have reached out privately to them about their past behavior, and they conveyed that they will respect the rules going forward. I have conveyed back to them that their continued use of the community is contingent on their ability to not break the rules going forward (especially with the alteration of comics). With this said, I fully expect this to ruffle quite a few of those proverbial feathers. But, for better or for worse, the decision is made. Please do not report their posts/comments merely because of who they are. If you do report them for anything, do it because it actually breaks the rules (be sure to be specific about what rules).
With this out of the way, I also want to take a moment to welcome the following people to our moderation team:
- @[email protected]
- @[email protected]
- @[email protected]
- @[email protected]
- @[email protected]
- @[email protected]
They have each reached out in some capacity to ask for this job, and I see no reason to not bring them aboard to help out. I expect that they will do their very best to ensure that this community, and its visitors, are treated fairly and with the upmost respect they deserve. Let’s be sure that they get the same in return. Everyone made it a strong point that we are all adults here, so let’s be sure to act like it.
It was for NSFW. I don’t think many of beeps unattributed posts got removed. It’s hard to know since the modlog doesn’t handle images very well and you can’t actually see them from. This was the only comic for which I recognize the name, I can’t say if the other removed comics for NSFW were actually NSFW.
My problem with this is that, yes it is spicy but it isn’t NSFW.
The pg-13 rule was the one most brought up in the last thread. I feel like it’s being sweeped under the rug.
Tagging it NSFW is the same as removing it and a fake compromise imo. I’m guessing almost all users surf this comm with NSFW off. I see NSFW as being strictly pornography and things of that nature, not a comic with a joke alluding to sex, and is more of an instance wide thing.
The rule before was unenforced. I think, seeing as this is the biggest comic community, a minimum would be a thread about it with examples of what would and wouldn’t be allowed. Idk, maybe I’m asking for too much. It’s mainly that we are talking about changes to what type of comic is allowed, which seems major.
I don’t really want this place to turn into happy meal comics over time. Thanks for your response though.
There’s going to be plenty of growing pains. As of right now I will just enforce things that I think are egregious. Most of Beep’s old posts will stay, there was just so many that we all just hit the ‘resolved’ button and moved on. There is no point to bully when everyone knows we will be nose down the microsecond they post anyway.
As far as the NSFW tag goes, I could lean either way but that comic toes the line for me pretty close.
It doesn’t toe the line for instance wide rules, based on what gets posted in meme subs for example. And the instance wide rules was what this community has been going with for more than a while.
How you guys plan to deal with spicy comics is different than how it was dealt with before.
I’m happy there are new moderators. I don’t get why we have to lose a whole category of content though. Feels worse knowing the guy that caused all this, and basically spent a month insulting everyone here is staying but the content is getting censored. What was the whole point? I could block him but there isn’t a way to see the content you guys remove.
I guess we will see. The part about it not showing up in the modlog makes it tad bit more frustrating.
Im not sure where your getting loosing a while category, the community rules state NSFW is more than allowed, just needs to be tagged.
I don’t know enough about the modlog to comment on it beyond my previous statements.
There are bound to be differences between how things worked before, the entire team is new. Not necessarily new to modding, but new for the community. We will do our best to reign the bad actors in, and stay out of the communities way letting this place run well. Hopefully.
Basically, tagging and not allowing it are the same thing since most don’t surf with NSFW, NSFW being mostly for actual porn from what I understand.
It’s been brought up before that tagging something with NSFW is basically sending it into the abyss for this comm. No one sees it. I won’t at least and I don’t think I should have to start surfing porn just to see content I had access to before.
Just to be clear, it is a change and I don’t think that change is wanted overall. I could be wrong which is why I invite further discussion maybe later. Just, deleting old comics with Pixar cartoons feels like a bad start. I can also imagine it getting worse over time since a lot more stuff stuff can toe the new line.
But in any case, happy to see this place with a new mod team!
Ultimately I am happy to be here, I hope that we can all together make this a better com than it was before. Might prod around later to see what others think about the tagging rules.