So just to forewarn everyone I'm on addy right now so I'm going to probably type way more than is necessary. I'll bold the parts that are important and I'll try to keep typos to a minimum. If there is something that you find confusing just let me know and I'll try to clarify.
So here we go:
If you've been here for a while then you know what this is, if not I'll clarify it here. Basically this is a way for the mods and the general userbase to talk and hopefully make a better subreddit. There are usually a few parts to it:
1.) What you expect from us, things you would like to see differently and your opinion of the modteam.
2.) What we expect from you. Things we want to change, things we've noticed that we liked and thing that we're upset with and want changed (thats pretty rare)
3.) Projects we've been kicking around in our head and we want to get your opinions. I personally like this one the best because it isn't just us telling you what to do, but the community (or at least those that participate) building something together that hopefully everyone will enjoy.
4.) General banter between you and us, some meta subreddit stuff, and any announcements we want to make.
Also I'm doing this a little rogue so if I make an ass of myself thats on all on me, and if there is something that I say "Yeah thats a good idea, I think we'll do that." but other mods have no idea what you're talking about don't blame them. It usually takes a little while for everyone to get on the same page.
Just wanted to add that lurkers and people "just here for the excitement" can speak up too. If you spend your time here you might as well try to make it as awesome as possible.
**Section 1.)
So what is your overall opinion of us? As people, as users, as mods? Opinions on our policies? Would you like a more hands on approach or a more laissez faire approach?
A few big issues that I know people might have opinions:
1.) The vendor blacklist. Yay or Nay? What about automod telling people about those vendors when they are mentioned? Yay or nay?
2.) SR3, SRR, SR360noscopez. Right now anything that might help those markets grow is being killed, but this is also kind of stopping people from talking about shit that has nothing to do with SR3. Thoughts?
What changes would you like to see? Any rules you want added or taken away? Anything you'd like implemented, maybe a good idea for an automod thread that would be stickied. Let us know.
Those are the two big ones, but just really anything you want to say to us should go here.
Also, I've noticed that with our growth the community has changed slightly. We're a cynical sarcastic group of assholes, but now it seems like we're a little more experienced at times, and also maybe we're a little nicer to eachother. I just wanted to say I'm happy with the general atmosphere of the subreddit Also, welcome to any new users here. Don't be afraid to ask questions.
THIS SECTION IS PRETTY MUCH STUFF YOU ALL ALREADY KNOW PLUS SOME OF MY RAMBLING Just read the rules, maybe skim through it and you're good.
2.) What we expect from you. Honestly things are pretty good, the majority of you follow the rules and don't cause any problems. There are a few that do but I think they mostly are just new and don't know the rules. The rule are on the sidebar, read them and follow them or else you might get callled a poophead. That really isn't that big of a deal for most our reals, just don't be butthurt when we removed your post. Also sometimes we'll just say "Broke rule 5# whatever, removed." we aren't intentionally trying to be dicks. We have to balance our lives and other mod duties, sometimes is just easier to quickly add that instead of waiting to write a better comment and the post stays up. Anything is better than nothing, right?
However for the bigger rules we don't fuck around. NO DIRECT DEALING, NO POSTING OR ASKING FOR CP, NO POSTING STUFF ABOUT SUICIDE OR ASKING TO KILL PEOPLE ESPECIALLY IN FIREARM THREADS. We have no room for jokes or leeway with this, the guy tha posted he was "looking for CP, opps I mean PCP guys." He was banned and reported to the admins. We're not usually that serious around here, I mean Bailey Jay our patron saint, but that shit is serious.
All of these (with the exception of asking how to kill yourself) will result in a pema ban with no warnings. Sometimes, especially with CP, you'll be reported to the admins and most likely banned from Reddit. I understand that the censoring of suicide posts is kind of a controversial issue, but its out of our hands. Admins don't want that kind of thing anywhere on Reddit. We're already really walking a thin line with the admins, we want them to be happy. We follow their rules and try to look respectable so that Anderson Cooper will never bash us and try to get an interview with him. Just know that we aren't heartlesss automod is programmed to post links to suicide prevention sites when he removes those posts and a lot of the times someone will also respond with a personalized message. We empathize with people that are suicidal, hell quite a few of our mods deal with depression and other things (I think it just comes with the territory) we know that all it takes is a nice caring comment in a time of need to sometimes pull a fellow human being back from the edge. We work with what we can.
Lobali wanted me to remind vendors and buyers that all ads and sourcing questions need to go in the advert threads that are posted on wednesday and sunday. You can wait a few days to find out "Who has the best weed?" or you could use the search bar.
Vendor, giveaways (meaning a real giveaway, not just give a small to the 54th person that buys from you) and contests can be posted outside of those threads in the main subreddit. Just message us first and get it cleared and you're good to go. If in doubt just shoot us a quick message, we don't bite. Well except when we're coming down from our DoC.**
We pretty much always have and still do reserve the right the remove comments and ban users for general cuntiness. Usually we just remove commments because we understand that people get pissed and a ban is too much, but some people are just negative assholes and we don't want them. Also, saying "But I give good info." doesn't mean shit, there are plenty of others that can do much better than you aren't assholes. Be nice to eachother guys, we're all stuck in this shit together so you might as well make some friends along the way.
Moronic Monday is NOOB thread. There are literally no dumb questions (though the irrelevant ones like "Where do babies come from?" get removed). If you don't know an answer move on, DO NOT berate users just because they've asked a question that you've seen a million times. They probably haven't. Comments berating noobs will be removed, repeat offenders will be banned. Though I've got a say I haven't seen this in a long time the last time I saw it I think the "asshole" either wasn't aware of the rules or had confused which thread he was in. Then someone came along like right after and told him off, you know who you are. Good on you man. :)
VENDORS ON THE BLACKLIST: DO NOT COME WHINING TO US THAT YOU REALLY AREN'T THAT BAD AND SHOULD BE REMOVED. You motherfuckers get to run the gauntlet that is our ,at times, ruthless community. Make a public post and convince the community that you were wrongly slandered, then we'll see about removing you. However messaging us and just saying "I'm really not a scammer, I promise. All those scam reports were written by shills"
Convince the community and you'll be good, don't and well I can't say I have much sympathy.
3.) Ideas we've been kicking around. These are mostly my ideas because I was given the go ahead to post this then all the other mods went to sleep. I'm sure they'll add their own stuff later.\
So my first idea that I would really like to get up and running is like a review of the past week or month. Once a week or once a month, or maybe some other schedule, we'll all get together and recap what happened.
You know like. "The week of December 8th. Agora went down, HoS was busted, and BV was confirmed as a scammer." (Thats all made up but if that all happens I'll punch a horse in the dick.)
Then of course everyone can discuss the happenings, but it also allows people to get up to date quickly and it lets us get a good look at the state of DNM's. "The last three weeks we had new markets." or "Shit markets are going down and no one is getting mail." It'll allow us all to keep a tab on the state of the markets. Maybe we'll even be able to predict shit storms before they happen when the data is all laid out in front of us. This is something that has to take community effort, I'm sure not all of us can be on the subreddit 24/7 so we have to work together to get a comprehensive recap. Let me know what you guys think.
The other idea I had, which is one I've had for a while, is having something like "DNM Theory" almost all of our posts are really redundant until a market goes down or someone gets sand like from the motherfucking beach. Basically what I want to do is have a thread every so often where we discuss the science behind the DNM's. The economics of the markets, where we think they'll be going, maybe we'll even find out why MXE vendors are batshit insane. In addition to DNM stuff maybe we could have some subreddit stuff, maybe we could discuss the best way to deal with waves of new users when something hits the news. Or hell maybe we'll just talk politics. Anyway, its an interesting idea I think it'll be fun and break up the monotony of it. I'm thinking it'll be kind of a free for all, if you have an interesting idea you want to share then post it and see who responds. I haven't put too much thought into this, but I know that one rule will be that civil discussion is a must.
This could kind of become whatever the community wants it to be, if you don't want to discuss something as serious as economics and would rather debate which porn star is the best (Hint: Its Bailey Jay) then you can do that. I like the idea of bring a bunch of interesting people together to discuss issues, but I'd also like to see where the community takes it when the mods back off.
I fully accept that my ideas might dumb or that no one finds them interesting. Well thats okay, what are your ideas?
4.) I can't think of many announcements right now other than we're thinking of adding a new mod. Usually we just choose someone that we think is smart and would fit well with the overall personality of the modteam. This time we're kind of reaching out. We have a few people in mind already, but nothing for certain. I know that I would very much like to have a mod that knows the legal system. We have tech people, we have drug people, we have people people, but we don't have a legal guy.
So if you're interested in this you can either comment on this thread or just message the mod team. We won't actually be making our decision and adding the new mod for a few days but I thought I'd give you all a heads up.
Lastly, not sure if you guys know about it but /r/DNMcirclejerk is a pretty fun subreddit to checkout if you're into that kind of thing.
Well after a few hours and some addy I'm finally happy with this and its done.
Now its your turn to give some feedback.
Edit: Now comes the part of the night where no body is on to talk to yet I'm still just a little stimmed up and thinking about taking some more even though that would probably be a bad idea. sigh Adderall why can't you just let me down easy?
damn you are on adderall.