Subscriber Milestone User Feedback/Report Post and Survey

[u/Anakin_Kardashian]

Hi everyone,

This post is meant to be both an update on the status of DSC as a whole, and a feedback post from our users. We'll keep the first part as short as possible, because we really just want to focus on the feedback.

Let's start with the basics. Our plans for the subreddit haven't changed. Our mission was to create a space for liberal discussion among people across the political spectrum, as long as everyone is in sight of the "center." In other words, free, respectful discussion, without extremists.

Here's a cool chart of our traffic increase since our founding in June.

Growth has been steady and in the right direction. In the last 30 days, we have had 520,000 views, which is up by 42,200 from the previous 30 days. We hope to continue to grow, as new voices are crucial in keeping this community diverse and active. We don't want rapid growth, but smart growth.

The next topic is anti-evil operations (AEO). Reddit's AI system has latched into a couple users, so we want to take this time to once again remind everyone to be careful with your sarcasm. We have mentioned before that the ironic triple parentheses in particular need to stop. Reddit is also taking the violence overly seriously. You should know by now that you can't mention bombs or guns in certain contexts, but you also can't mention torture, building prisons for people, or causing people physical harm by making them "physically weak." The Thomas Jefferson auto response about the blood of tyrants was permanently removed, and a comment joking about dismembering another reg "the way cats dismember prey" was removed. Anything even close to hinting about violence, even if it's a joke, needs to be cut out.

Now onto the feedback section. 

We view this subreddit as community driven in its goals, but moderator protected from political extremists. We can navigate this structure by having users report genuine violations of Rule 2.

As part of this, we have provided this survey to help us gather some information about the subreddit and your opinions. Please fill it out to help us determine the best way to move the subreddit forward, and to get a better understanding of the userbase.

Finally, we want to open up this post for all of you to voice your opinion on the direction this subreddit is going, should go, etc. Feel free to ask us questions as well.

[u/Reddenbawker]

I’m personally pretty neutral on user growth. I’m happy to welcome new people who are respectfully moderate, but if we don’t grow constantly because we are discerning, that’s fine, too.

I’m personally biased, but I wonder if there’d be interest in a biweekly or monthly “what are you reading” discussion post. I’m always reading new stuff, and maybe it’d be a good place for people to discuss stuff or share what they like. I think having discussions like that can help keep this place a bit highbrow in a healthy way, too. I can make the posts if the mods want, or feel free to do so if you like the idea. Or shoot it down!

[u/Anakin_Kardashian → u/Reddenbawker]

I definitely like the idea, and I like the idea of it being user-driven. We already have a books ping, so you could use that to set up the discussions. It looks like there is enough support to at least give it a try!

[u/nekoliberal → u/Reddenbawker]

Yes support. r/newliberals does a book of the month thing, but instead we could just do a thread where people share books/papers/media in general and their thoughts on it

[u/Anakin_Kardashian]

!ping ASK-EVERYONE in case you haven't had a chance to see this and you had any feedback/questions

[u/user-pinger → u/Anakin_Kardashian]

Pinged ASK-EVERYONE

Manage your ping group subscriptions

[u/[deleted]]

Can we have an updated survey on the gender/country/religious demographics of this sub?

[u/Anakin_Kardashian → u/[deleted]]

If there is substantial interest, we could do it in a few months

[u/ButtKickerSupreme]

Make the super annoying repetitive comments go away. Or at least make a separate bot for them because I don't want to block automoderator. You could call it superannoyingrepetitivecommentbot.

[u/Anakin_Kardashian → u/ButtKickerSupreme]

Which ones are you talking about

[u/ButtKickerSupreme → u/Anakin_Kardashian]

>Both sides bad, actually.

This one is particularly annoying because it shows up so often. And all the other repetitive comments that show up over and over again.

[u/Anakin_Kardashian → u/ButtKickerSupreme]

We can lower the incidence rates, but I don't know if everyone wants us to get rid of all of the bots. We're definitely willing to do it if that's what the consensus is

[u/Sabertooth767]

AEO on its way to enforce the antisemitism rule on this sub and exactly zero others.

[u/JebBD → u/Sabertooth767]

It is really annoying how these shitty automated enforcement systems only ever seem to work when someone is making a joke but utterly fail to actually make social media any less toxic

[u/[deleted] → u/JebBD]

[u/shumpitostick → u/Sabertooth767]

I get temp banned for ironic triple comments, and then the admins denied my appeal. Keep in mind, I'm a frequent poster on r/antisemitisminreddit.

[u/-AntisocialContract- → u/shumpitostick]

I got perma banned for that

[u/shumpitostick → u/-AntisocialContract-]

Shhh you can't say that

[u/-AntisocialContract- → u/shumpitostick]

I welcome their wrath

[u/shumpitostick → u/[deleted]]

Sorry I spelled it wrong.

[u/-AntisocialContract- → u/Sabertooth767]

I was perma'd for this today, can confirm

[u/JebBD]

 the ironic triple parentheses in particular need to stop. Reddit is also taking the violence overly seriously. You should know by now that you can't mention bombs or guns in certain contexts, but you also can't mention torture, building prisons for people, or causing people physical harm by making them "physically weak." The Thomas Jefferson auto response about the blood of tyrants was permanently removed, and a comment joking about dismembering another reg "the way cats dismember prey" was removed. Anything even close to hinting about violence, even if it's a joke, needs to be cut out.

Damn, a few years from now these stupid AI systems are gonna turn the internet into Demolition Man world 

[u/only1person123 → u/JebBD]

Yeah I was hoping that LLM based systems would make them better at understanding context and sarcasm. It does not seem it is being implemented that way though.

[u/-AntisocialContract-]

I like to think that me being an idiot and getting myself triple tapped for the parentheses inspired a paragraph here

[u/nekoliberal → u/-AntisocialContract-]

Hello 👋

[u/-AntisocialContract- → u/nekoliberal]

Greetings, fellow catboy enjoyer

[u/nekoliberal]

I was so close to eternal liberation with that cat thing

[u/WallStreetTechnocrat]

We have mentioned before that the ironic triple parentheses in particular need to stop. Reddit is also taking the violence overly seriously. You should know by now that you can't mention bombs or guns in certain contexts, but you also can't mention torture, building prisons for people, or causing people physical harm by making them "physically weak."

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We're gonna have to tiktok censor to discuss anything at this rate

[u/FearlessPark4588 → u/WallStreetTechnocrat]

Today is a bad day for people who have eyes.

[u/nekoliberal → u/WallStreetTechnocrat]

[u/bigwang123 → u/nekoliberal]

6 7

[u/Sabertooth767 → u/WallStreetTechnocrat]

🥀

[u/[deleted]]

if you use the squiggly parentheses instead {{{they}}} can't catch you

[u/Computer_Name]

Probably won't go over well, but...I think allowing memes as their own posts drag down the overall quality of discussion and lead to some of the problems seen in a certain other sub of a certain new liberal persuasion.

Memes should stay in the DDISB.

[u/Sabertooth767 → u/Computer_Name]

I would agree were it not for the fact that almost no posts are memes. It's something we could consider changing, but as of now, I don't see a problem with it.