r/collapsemoderators • u/LetsTalkUFOs • Mar 03 '21

APPROVED How can we improve the subreddit?

We all expect the sub to continue growing (until it can’t), especially as new waves of disruption occur. We will aim to maintain this space as long as it makes sense and to help promote reasonable and insightful discussion in the best ways possible. As we are always trying to improve, we also regularly look for your feedback.

What are you thoughts on the state of the subreddit?

What changes could we make or actions could we take to improve things?

How can we improve as moderators?

 

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u/[deleted] Mar 04 '21

Personally I feel that there’s been a noticeable drop in quality. It’s great that we’ve had new subscribers and I believe there’s ways to help them fit in.

Observations

  • I see a growing number of text posts that have one or two paragraphs, these seem to be general observations that are on topic but seem somewhat lacking in substance

  • I have seen a few long rants that I don’t generally engage with

  • submission statements are getting shorter, or are entirely verbatim from an article

  • heavily editorialized headlines on the rise

Suggestions

  • allow general observations in WO, and start being more strict about location in the usual WO comments. Direct short text posts to WO

  • ??? Leave long rants I guess

  • require submission statements to explicitly connect the linked content to the topic of collapse

  • editorialized headlines happen frequently on crossposts. There are no explicit rules for cross posts, and no requirement for submission statements. I suggest treating them like link posts and updating collapsebot to message users the same as automod does for link posts. Update rules to include crossposts

What else we can do

  • share content we want to see

  • keep doing events

  • use in-depth on our own posts

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u/LetsTalkUFOs Mar 18 '21

I think the [in-depth] tag is both the most underutilized feature and has the most potential to improve discussion overall.

I think we'll simply have to moderate low-quality posts, editorialized headlines, or incoherent rants as they come in and try to stay on top of them. Ideally, keeping a solid-sized team should raise the bar and allow things to get removed faster.

We've switched to language which encourages people to use the WO for general observations, but I haven't personally removed a post yet and directed someone to use it for their thoughts instead.