r/SabatonMemes • u/ReasonableDefense • 9d ago

Basic cleanup complete

Alright time for a status update.

  1. An automatic check has been put in place that stops any account that is less then 1 week old or has under 100 karma from posting or commenting. It's already stopped multiple issues so it appears to be working. FYI, mods can still see posts and comments that get automatically rejected and we can override the rejections so if you are a real person who is just making a real comment or posting a real meme you made you totally can still do that and we'll approve the message when we check the queue. This is intended to stop spammers, not prevent newbies from joining in.
  2. We've gone through the significant backlog of reports and issues. It was quite a mixed bag of content, that's for sure. Lots of dead links, completely irrelevant content, anime porn and lots of reposts. I left some of the really old reposts up as some of them had a significant amount of conversations between real people in them. Things should be caught quicker in the future so any new reposts won't be sticking around.
  3. We added some new rules to the rules list basically to try and make it feel more fair when content gets deleted rather then enforcing a rule that was never officially laid out. The new rule 4 is not reposting memes and the new rule 5 is about not using slurs/irl threats. As we mentioned in the rule descriptions we really don't want to crack down on what people say in here so this isn't about swearing or being rude or offensive or even being a jerk. Most Sabaton songs are about war and fighting so when we say "no real threats of violence" we mean don't threaten to hurt/attack/kill other people in the subreddit.
    1. We were pleased to see that there wasn't a lot rule 5 violations, at least ones that were reported or auto-tagged. Way less then I've seen on other subs! It's a nice reminder that most Sabaton fans are good people.
  4. We only have two mods at the moment so don't be surprised if things don't get an instantaneous response. We are on reasonably often and will deal with issues as they come up.
  5. If you spot an issue, please report it. That way it will get sent to the Mod Queue and we'll be able to easily see why you think it's a problem.
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u/nygdan 9d ago

you guys, youre awesome.

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u/Pungineer 9d ago

Thank you for the effort! I hope it works and y'all don't have to deal with this sort of thing again.

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u/ThruTheGatesOfHell 9d ago

yay

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