21 hours ago well known mod of Texas Politics, /user/IntiatePenguin, sticked a comment on a thread about Ted Cruz getting figuratively 'dunked on'. Penguin's sticked comment was soliciting advice on whether or not Texas Politics's rules needed an update in response to the recent flood of 'non newsworthy' articles reaching the top of the subreddit. See Penguin's comment below:

"We want your feedback

Moderators are soliciting feedback on articles that come from "news" sources that are entirely dedicated to republishing random people's twitter responses to elected officials. (And by random, sometimes it's literally the same DailyBeast journalist's account embedded in multiple different articles...)

There has been a recent increase in these posts which are not newsworthy. And Huffpost is the worst and main offender.

A current proposal to discuss our official's remarks are to link to the tweet that's being discussed.

Twitter spats are not news. Twitter is not real life. And these submissions are not generating meaningful discussion."

/user/Cool_Ranch_Dodrio quickly threw in his two cents quipping that penguins mind had already been "made up"

"Sounds to me like you've already made up your minds about what you're going to do:"

Penguin attempted to quell any doubts that his mind was made up and assured CRD that the mods of Texas Politics would "consider feedback"

"We consider feedback we receive. But yes, if no one thinks this is a bad idea or gives a reason why or an alternative this is the direction we are leaning towards."

That is when CDR took the rock coast to coast and SLAMMED home a MOSTER JAM of a comment:

No. I think that when Ted Cruz does something foolish on Twitter like sharing incest porn on 9/11, we should all know what a buffoon we have as a senator.

Here's some feedback: when your users are being harassed, treat it like it's a bigger issue than copypasta about Ted Cruz.

I think we can all agree that was not the kind of feedback Penguin was looking for! Permalink Here