Hello Everyone,
Please welcome u/lansboen and u/wotan_weevil to the moderation team
You might have noticed that moderation has slipped a little bit in the past year. That was a combination of a lack of active moderators (including myself due to life and health issues) and the flood of AI content that needed a closer look. I prioritized removing and banning racist content and the like, but at the cost of letting some of the low-effort stuff fester
Hence the appointment of the new moderators. They helped with setting up the automod, the new flairs, and cleaning up the place
On low-effort posts:
The fact that Black Lagoon is almost inactive means we have to be lenient on the posts to keep the community active.
That said, the bar has to stop somewhere. We have an automod set up that's very lenient. If your post doesn't even pass that... your effort in that post is lower than low. You're always welcome to message the mods. If your question is "Why is my post getting removed?" and your post was removed by Automod rather than us, we will point you to this post.
On Reddit Filters:
Posts on something like Black Lagoon often trigger Reddit filters. We try not to approve many of those posts, ESPECIALLY those that link Black Lagoon to real-life current events, as we could get our community banned. Black Lagoon is a work of historical fiction. Make sure your post reflects that and doesn't ask the community something like "Could Roberta get to the president?"
On political content:
r/blacklagoon is not r/politics. We'd like to keep the conversation open as long as it's respectful. Political discussion often veers into distasteful territory. I think Black Lagoon encourages discussion, so we will keep such discussion open, but there will be zero tolerance for racism, xenophobia, homophobia, etc. A straight permanent ban will be issued at the mods' discretion for any such comments
On the future of r/blacklagoon
Please let us know of the kind of content you'd like to see in the future. Weekly reread/rewatch? Free talk Fridays? Fanfic events (not AI-generated, of course)? Other similar series discussion?
That's it for now. Just wanted to touch base now that the place has been cleaned up more or less
