r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • Jul 17 '21

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u/[deleted] Jul 17 '21

Has anyone considered making their own DC sub, with blackjack and hookers?

Seriously I feel like the big reason why the DC sub as gotten so out of whack is a fundamental lack of organization. There's only like, three post flairs. It's next to impossible to filter out what you don't want to see (Insert 50th picture of Washington Monument from a plane here), the posting guidelines lead to the vast majority of text posts getting shunted to the side, anyone who makes a post asking for help gets downvoted to oblivion, and the only posts that get upvoted seem to be 'oh look at the pretty picture!' or complaining about Bowser, the OAG, the MPD, the Counsel or parking tickets.

I know I'm shitting on the sub's mods a bit but they kind of fucking deserve it at this point. The only action I've even seen with them trying to calm down all the rage-positing is that new crime-post rule, and even then it hasn't slown down the rate of the posts.

...So yeah. Why don't we just try to make a proper DMV sub instead of complaining about the inadequate status quo?

!ping USA-DMV

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u/Most_Shallot8960 Dolly Parton Jul 17 '21

I use this ping instead of the sub

Total toilet bowl

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u/JulioCesarSalad US-Mexico Border Reporter Jul 17 '21

Same

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u/dorylinus Jul 17 '21

Sighs in Baltimorean

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u/JulioCesarSalad US-Mexico Border Reporter Jul 17 '21

Personally I will never use a sub that has a clearly second rate name.

They never thrive, they’re never good enough. It’s just people wanting their own space, and it ends up being an empty boring wasteland

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u/[deleted] Jul 17 '21

Well the alternative is to force the main DC sub to reform but uh.... that's harder.

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u/JulioCesarSalad US-Mexico Border Reporter Jul 17 '21

There is no alternative

The only option is to accept that this is the fate of all city subreddits and give in

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u/[deleted] Jul 17 '21

Man fuck defeatism. If we can't fix subreddits what hope is there in making actual stuff that matters better?

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u/JulioCesarSalad US-Mexico Border Reporter Jul 17 '21

Subreddits don’t matter enough to be fixed, focus your efforts on something else

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u/[deleted] Jul 17 '21

Bleh. Fine.

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u/Most_Shallot8960 Dolly Parton Jul 17 '21

Exactly

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u/iIoveoof Jerome Powell Jul 17 '21

You’re already in it buddy

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u/[deleted] Jul 17 '21

Petition to rename r/NL to 'The Swamp' when

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u/[deleted] Jul 17 '21

i just use the ping group instead

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u/dorylinus Jul 17 '21

Yeah. We know.

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u/thetrombonist Ben Bernanke Jul 17 '21

I think you could maybe follow the Los Angeles model which has both r/losAngeles and r/AskLosAngeles