Community feedback/metapost for January 2025
It's a new year so I figure it's time for a bit of a longer metapost.
As many of you have noticed from the recently pinned posts, we are trying to rework our rules in order to make them more understandable for our users while also making them less open to interpretation by the mods. Hopefully we will start seeing some of these changes being implemented in the coming months which we hope will reduce claims of bias and reduce the general number of bans on the sub. If you have suggestions on how to improve the rules now would be the time to send them in.
General stats:
Over the past year users published 10.5k posts of which 6.9k were removed (likely by the automod for not meeting character or general post requirements). Additionally, 1.8 million comments were posted with 32.7k being removed (also likely by the automod).
We have also received 1.7k reports on posts and 33k reports on comments during that time:
We have also received 4.6k messages in modmail and sent 9.4k. In terms of general moderator activity, it can be broken down using the following guide:
As usual, If you have something you wish the mod team and the community to be on the lookout for, or if you want to point out a specific case where you think you've been mismoderated, this is where you can speak your mind without violating the rules. If you have questions or comments about our moderation policy, suggestions to improve the sub, or just talk about the community in general you can post that here as well.
Please remember to keep feedback civil and constructive, only rule 7 is being waived, moderation in general is not.