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Halitenina

Posted 5y ago in Meta - Permalink - Locked - 217 Views

With all due respect, the people that enforce quality in TRP are a special breed, and the world needs more of their type... BUT... why can’t we as a community use the power of reddit to decide what does or doesn’t rise to the top of ‘hot’ on the TRP subbreddit?

Do we really need heavy moderation?

Halitenina 5y ago

why can’t we as a community use the power of reddit to decide what does or doesn’t rise to the top of ‘hot’ on the TRP subbreddit?

TRP isn't a democracy. If you don't like it, feel free to make a competing group. You wouldn't be the first to try; there is a reason the others have faded into obscurity.

Do we really need heavy moderation?

Yes. It's the only way we've been able to grow this large despite being one of the most notorious corners of the internet.

Wolveryn 5y ago

Fair!

[deleted] 5y ago

Guessing the weekly improvement threads are dead & buried though.

Halitenina 5y ago

There wasn't enough interest to justify hogging the stickies every week.

[deleted] 5y ago

Fair....also, it was usually the usual suspects, and incremental change is incremental.

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McVaghunter 5y ago

I feel like there should be weekly posts to share short ideas/tips that does not need their own entire post. Like weekly open discussions or something.

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FieldLine 5y ago

Not every post needs to be a thesis.

Correct. Not every post needs to be a thesis.

But every post does need to have a thesis. Otherwise it is just aimless rambling, by definition.

GodOfDinosaurs 5y ago

Apparently it's not enough to just have a thesis. You need to have a thesis and state it explicitly, and label it as such.

FieldLine 5y ago

Yeah, the mods made that pretty clear in the guidelines. (?)

GodOfDinosaurs 5y ago

Many good posts are not like that though because the thesis is implicit but obvious, rather than explicit. I understand the need to clear up shitty rambling posts, but enforcing a strict rule like that makes for formulaic and potentially less impactful writing.

The problem isn't really whether the thesis is explicit and labeled, it's bad writing.

FieldLine 5y ago

I hear. But you'd have to imagine that the mods don't have time to read every single post, and need a way to quickly determine if something should be left up in front of an audience of more than 300,000 people.

Good writing isn't going to be compromised by a thesis statement at the top of the post, even if it is a redundancy. And it's a trivial request if your writing really is solid.

I've gotten close with some of the mods, apparently the amount of shit they have to remove every day is absurd. Am I wrong, /u/CrazyHorseInvincible?

enforcing a strict rule like that makes for formulaic and potentially less impactful writing.

That's why the ECs get a pass. The assumption is that their stuff is quality, so there's no need for it to be vetted by the "is he too retarded to stick to the formula" screen.

Why, was something of yours removed? Why not just add the sentence? Consider that leaving it out is a signal that you couldn't be bothered to read the rules before posting. Or that you did read them but feel you're above them, which isn't much better.

GodOfDinosaurs 5y ago

Yeah, I just had a post removed so I had a bone to pick. It had over 145 points with 96% upvotes and it included a thesis. I just didn't label it as 'summary' or 'thesis'. It was clear people were getting a lot of value out of it and understood the thesis even though I didn't label it.

I guess I didn't label it because I thought it was clear enough, and for most people it was. I get what you're saying about mods dealing with loads of shit every day, I just think there should be more discretion.

FieldLine 5y ago

I just think there should be more discretion.

If you have a better suggestion then drop the mods a line in modmail. In my experience they are pretty receptive to feedback as long as it's done in private and phrased in a non-confrontational way.

Balderdash79 5y ago

Fair enough.

Is there an option to disable the blogspam, or otherwise remove it from the thread listings?

zyqkvx 5y ago

I'd like to make a point of criticism (or I'm obtuse AF). I haven't read the side bar in a year, but I have read it 4 times so far. I've never seen a sidebar part that shows how to make line breaks, solid lines, larger font, and bold. Also, show a visual example of a ideal post with the anatomy of the format.

I think I finally figured all of this stuff out and it's scattered in my notes somewhere. It would STILL be easier for me if it was just in the sidebar.

B-L-G-Y 5y ago

Underneath each body box (in desktop reddit), when you're typing up a post, are the words Formatting Help. I don't think the # is listed, which

SUCKS

but aside from that, everything you need for a well formatted post is there.

MatrixofLe3adership 5y ago

There are a lot of semantics that infrequent posters struggle with, no matter how determined and smart you are—it still takes time and effort.

On one hand this is good because it 1) deters all the lazy fucks and 2) promotes quality content, but on the other...I've certainly had valuable ideas in the past that I just never bothered to post. I have better things to do than figure out how nbsp; and line-breaks work.

If redpillers chipped in to make a sidebar guide for compliance, it would go a long way in solving all of these issues.