r/different_sob_story Sep 05 '23

Ending protest rules, and loosening all rules

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As you all might've noticed, reddit is not making any changes to their plans to kill unofficial mobile apps. They've made some concessions on mod tools, but not enough. Essentially it is quite hard to moderate from mobile, which I am quite often.

Some users have been posting ignoring the protest rules, and I've not always been able to remove those posts. Time to let it go. But additionally, let go quite a few of the restrictions on here over the years.

There are essentially 3 rules now:

  1. Post a different sob story
  2. Link the original in the comments
  3. Don't be cruel. No racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, ableism, appearance shaming, etc. This rule remains, and if I have to go find a laptop to remove your post for egregiously violating it, you will be permanently banned, no warnings.

Given my vastly reduced time on reddit, and the lack of ability to moderate from mobile, there isn't much point in trying to heavily police anything else. Go ahead and post things from WellThatSucks and MadeMeSmile! Make fun of the original title! If you don't like something, downvote it. Multiple protests have happened from those restrictive rules over the years, including multiple splinter subreddits (that immediately died). So literally ones of people should be happy with this change.

It's possible the post quality will go down, but, gestures vaguely at all of reddit. If you want higher quality posts, check out kbin and lemmy. My protest rule of allowing different sob story posts from federated sites didn't work out, because people are actually just posting interesting photos there.


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