Here's the "Trial of Events"
We're getting messages about users being "Banned from posting" in /r/leagueoflegends
We go "wtf no you aren't banned" and then they show us this message saying /r/leagueoflegends condones harassment and is a "hate subreddit"
I decided to take a look at the subreddit and noticed that he has only submitted 3 videos. I later assumed
>Maybe he's using some stupid bot like /r/blackladies (RIP banned again) and /r/offmychest use for automated bans
Which is super annoying and something I've said is stupid as fuck so I sent a spam report to see what would happen. Sending ban messages that claim we're a hate subreddit is not your average troll. Enigma told me later that it isn't bannable to send automated ban messages.
The BEST part was he sent it to /r/Oppression. That subreddit has one of the best modmail discussions in the world.
>/u/AgentPao [8] has also stated that they have only posted on 3 seperate occasions to the /r/leagueoflegends[9] and therefore reporting the account for spam is ridiculous.
He never submitted to /r/LoL he only submitted 3 times to his own private subreddit. We'd like it if the automated bans stopped. But if he's going to continue to do it he can knock himself out. I find it disgusting he's trying to promote his subreddit by "blackmailing" users in his ban message. That's fucked up.
I suggest everyone in the moderator team to read Stein On Writing's chapter on titles. It's pretty clear that the most successul non-fiction has metaphoric, non-descriptive titles. Why would a Video-Game subreddict have stricter title rules than actually published non-fiction, or even articles of the damn New York Times. It makes no sense.
WTF 2 Shens!? Is a really good title for that content. It tells people what to expect, while mantaining some mystery, and finding resonance in an old community joke. I'd say it's the perfect title for the content, and it's really dumb to delete anything for it.
"Fighting against human nature is a losing battle." No matter how much you think a thing should be used the "right" way, people are going to use it the way they use it and you need to build around that. Voting has been Like/Dislike for as long as I've used Reddit; there are millions of examples (go hunt down the mod-free week bread post if you need an example of how effective the 'true' Reddit use of upvote/downvote is).
On a similar but mostly unrelated note, people don't downvote like they upvote (in quantities, at the very least). Something having 4,000 upvotes net doesn't mean the community has to whether it is relevant/useful or not, it just means some people like it and most other people glossed over it. That's why mods exist, because users will NEVER effectively curate a large community. Users will upvote bread and "OK".
Extra: This is a fun article so I'm going to link it as an aside to hope other people enjoy it, as it explains the quote in my first comment. It's something that I read long ago and started incorporating in my own work. You create things for people to use, you can't force them to use it exactly how you would.
this app was gold
I still have it! (idk why)
It would be nice if some day you could release an update. Thanks for the hard work you did. Really.
Slack is an online messaging tool. (https://slack.com)
Concerning the rewording of the rule I think the current one is explicit enough.
> Single word, empty, memetic (such as two word nonsensical comments) that don't add to the conversation will be removed.
I think it cover the comment face explicitly enough. If you don't think it does feel free to say so. And propose a better wording in your opinion.
Also I personally considered that those comment face usage isn't becoming a widespread problem and that their usage diminished greatly once the firsts days passed.