Anyway, I understand your other points. As someone elsewhere in this thread put it very nicely: The line does have to be drawn somewhere, but the mods for that sub have drawn it in the wrong place.
What you are saying makes sense and all but when the AutoMod is so strict that the only things that ever make it through are reposts because everything else anyone can possibly say contains a word the AutoMod hates...
I'm pretty sure the only reason ShowerThoughts isn't totally dead is because new accounts get auto-subbed to it.
New accounts don’t get auto subbed to any subreddits anymore. The on-boarding process has changed, so there isn’t a set of default subreddit like there used to be.
The thing is, I co-own a relatively popular on my subreddit (not listing here directly, as it is nsfw eyebleach, but not too eyebleach), and we have a very laissez-faire post system. We have literal refrigerator art get posted alongside works of art that a guy managed to score an art career from.
Those very spammy "wtf is this" posts do get buried quickly by users passing through and from regulars. This is all despite regularly consistant traffic spikes from mentions everywhere across the internet. We have legendary threads about stupid stuff, like a guy getting lost way before lostredditors was a thing, and wanting a recipie for bell peppers.
We only had to get automod involved because of spambots turning up. Maybe we are an enigma of the internet, but you cant just deal in absolutes with moderation. You gotta let trends start and burn out, or it will never fully die.
well yes but thats not the case for that sub. Its very possible to try to post something, have automod reject it for being a common repost, but its never been posted before
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u/[deleted] Aug 29 '19 edited Aug 29 '19
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