I’ve moderated a sub for a while, /r/moderatepolitics. In the beginning, we just had one rule: no personal attacks. That was manageable with a small sub. But then we noticed certain behavior with a negative effect. We started requiring a starter comment to deter people from dropping a large amount of articles. We restricted meta comments to meta threads to avoid derailing. Glorifying violence was banned. Conversation of trans issues was banned due to a conflict with Reddit’s admins.
We are now larger than Lemmy by subscriber count. We had to adapt or collapse under our own weight.
I’ve moderated a sub for a while, /r/moderatepolitics. In the beginning, we just had one rule: no personal attacks. That was manageable with a small sub. But then we noticed certain behavior with a negative effect. We started requiring a starter comment to deter people from dropping a large amount of articles. We restricted meta comments to meta threads to avoid derailing. Glorifying violence was banned. Conversation of trans issues was banned due to a conflict with Reddit’s admins.
We are now larger than Lemmy by subscriber count. We had to adapt or collapse under our own weight.
r/moderatepolitics on reddit?
Yeah, that’s the one.
That sub is huge! Link to c/moderatepolitics in the sidebar on reddit?
I have been plugging the idea. So far no consensus among the moderators on linking it.
there was a similar problem involving /c/antiwork and r/antiwork i believe