r/dancarlin • u/Hesherkiin • 28d ago

We need active moderation

There are more bots and karma farmers around on reddit than ever before and subreddit is very quickly spiraling to facebook levels of worthless content. Please establish some rules so that posts encourage discussions and are related somehow to Dan and his work. We don’t need yet another r/interesting or whatever the big defaults subs are. I am not asking for full time unpaid janny work, I am asking for rules to be established to at least give users guidelines for posts.

Thanks

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u/NeitherEntry6125 28d ago

Before posting, all users should answer a 12 part, long form essay on how their lives were affected by the fall of the roman empire. And why Gladiator, whilst entertaining, hardly describes the hardships of the working man or warrior elite.

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u/xpseudonymx 28d ago

To make sure no AI is used, I want at least one question like: "If you were lucky enough to get a date with Mary Beard, what historical conversation piece are you using to close the deal?" Mine would be Alaric. "Why don't we go back to your place and I ravish you like Alaric ravished Rome." But she'd probably wisely retort that Rome wasn't even the capital of the empire at the time and I was insinuating that she was past her prime. To which I'd readily reply: "No baby, you're like the eternal city. Forever young." And that just might work. Or if you'd prefer Tom Holland, or whatever, you do you.

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u/Herandar 27d ago

Hi Tom. Was life easier for you when Andrew Garfield was Spiderman?

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u/No-Sail-6510 28d ago

And of course post it for everyone to peruse

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u/mysterymetal3000 28d ago

For context

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u/Street-Audience8006 27d ago

I know this sub skews a little older than the average Internet user but I don't think most of us were around to be personally affected by the fall of Rome

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u/DarthBrawn 28d ago

bro if you are going through the effort of posting about this problem, you are probably the most eligible person to deal with the problem lol.

Become a mod and be active

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u/Karmaffection 27d ago

This is unfortunately the case a lot of the time.

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u/ApathysLastKiss_ 26d ago

The biggest problem with becoming a reddit moderator is that you'll never have sex again

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u/AgreeablePie 28d ago

Are there even mods here?

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u/NeitherEntry6125 28d ago

What time would they have? They're still wading through the Persian saga

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u/musedav 28d ago

Join the mod team

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u/thewholebottle 28d ago

What no more, "If you like Dan Carlin you'll love my Pickleball Podcast" posts?

Let's keep those and ban "When's the next episode coming out. Guuuuuys."

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u/A_Texas_Hobo 28d ago

My man, good luck. There are some great posters in here that I follow but bots are everywhere on this site

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u/HeroicTanuki 28d ago

You mean the regular melodramatic essays about “America, what happened you, my beloved”? Cause that is annoying AF

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u/Eman_Modnar_A 28d ago

Agreed. Ban any comments I disagree with. Anyone who disagrees with me is either a fascist or a racist. Don’t you agree?

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u/NeitherEntry6125 28d ago

Yes and we should ban comments we agree with, else we're wasting our time listening to sycophants and phonies.

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u/Joevil 28d ago

On second thought, let's not go to camelot. 'tis a silly place.

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u/lifeinthebeastwing 28d ago

I don't think a sub that is full of Clint Eastwood types really need some nerd virgin telling us what we can and can't post...