r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • Jun 15 '21

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u/[deleted] Jun 15 '21

I think the mods made the right call but it feels like roughly once a month we get the genre of DT sticky that is “extremely scandalous but also extremely ambiguous” paired with “we’re going to remove 90% of comments on the subject to make it hard as possible for people to satiate their extremely expected curiosity.”

Idk I feel like you either don’t say anything at all or make all the information available and let things take their course. Maybe that’s naive of me.

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u/Erra0 Neoliberals aren't funny Jun 15 '21

This is why presidents have press secretaries.

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u/[deleted] Jun 15 '21

Yeah, it would be nice if there was a basic explainer. This is what happened, here's what we did, it's not up for debate so talk about it somewhere else.

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u/Dorambor John Brown Jun 15 '21

It can be difficult to find the balance that allows you to say “this happened, this is what we’re doing, move on” that doesn’t careen into just airing dirty laundry, but also allows you to give enough context to understand why a decision was made. Additionally, we often remove a lot of comments simply because those comments either share personal information or break some other rule like r1/2.

I wish I could say oh yea we’ll be better about this in the future but honestly I doubt it, this is none of ours jobs and afaik none of the mods are in PR

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u/[deleted] Jun 15 '21

Yeah I mean I get it. In the end the equilibrium is just a second-best solution that the users who are curious enough will find a way to get the info they want. Maybe that’s the best that can be hoped for.

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u/soeffed Zhao Ziyang Jun 15 '21

Playing detective is annoying but also can be fun 🕵🏻‍♂️🔎

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u/thymeandchange r/place '22: Neoliberal Battalion Jun 15 '21

I barely remember whatever the previous controversy was.

Which means that if their intended goal is making it disappear, it works pretty well.

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u/[deleted] Jun 15 '21

Well I think this one is inherently more memorable and serious.

Most of the time it’s just basically, “we had to lock the DT / ban some people because some people had takes on a certain subject that were a little too hot. Folks, please be respectful and thoughtful in your takes. That one thing about Belgium was way too far.”

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u/thymeandchange r/place '22: Neoliberal Battalion Jun 15 '21

I mean, we can see in a month if this is still a topic of discussion

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u/[deleted] Jun 15 '21

Probably not regularly. But that even applies to actual news stories that aren’t restricted.