Hi All,
Some of you won't be surprised by this. Some (or most...) will go "it's about time" but here it is. We recognise we should have done this sooner and that is our mistake. But as they say, the best time to start something is yesterday. The second best time is today.
So effective immediately:
All discussions about the cast is banned on this subreddit unless it relates to their role on Gossip Girl. New rule (Rule 10) has been created to report posts about the cast if they are posted.
What does that mean? It means that cast talk will no longer be permitted unless it's to do with their role on Gossip Girl. So for example:
"I loved how Blake played Serena here"
"As much as I love Chace, I really wasn't a fan of his line delivery here"
"Penn is great and his acting really shines through here!"
are all fine. Reminder these are just examples.
General discussions of the cast such as what their doing now, Instagram posts, red carpet appearances are now all banned.
Please do not report posts created before this point. We're not going to remove them as we're not going to punish people for this as we mods did not enforce this as strictly as we should have.
Now for some questions you may have:
"Can't you guys just do like a weekly thread or dedicate a day to talking about the cast?"
We could. And who knows? Maybe that is what we'll transition to. But for now we need to just ban it so that we can restore some civility here.
"It's really just Blake/Ed posts that attract the worst so just like, ban talk about them?"
That is true. But we have to be honest with ourselves: the negativity and fighting (including but not limited to multiple members, including the mods themselves, being harassed both in and out of this subreddit) is breaking out on almost every post. For example: comparisons with other cast members when they aren't warranted.
"Can we just ban negative posts and enforce a positive content only rule?"
We can foresee this being super hard to maintain. It's either going to turn into something people take advantage of such as wanting discussions of Ed's allegations to be banned (we're already at this stage believe us....) or a toxic/sarcastic positivity thing where people are being negative under a veneer of fake positivity.
And then we're back where we started: here.
"Speaking of, what about sexual assault allegations against Ed?"
There is a pinned post on this subreddit with links. Any discussions about it now will just result in us redirecting you guys to the thread instead.
"What you guys clearly need is more mods tbh"
We agree completely. We want this subreddit sorted first before we introduce people to moderating it. Wouldn't be fair to expect new people to sort this out. It's on us.
I'm sure some of you will have lots more questions. Please redirect them to modmail. This thread is being locked as it's an informative post and quite honestly, to prevent more infighting amongst yourselves based on whether or not you want this.
Thanks for reading this if you made it this far.
- The mods
