COMING SOON: Possible 'balancing' solution to the Daily Chat vs "Shower Thought" posts. Let's experiment with making Daily Chat a 'Weekly Chat'? Hopefully frogs can expect better, more high-quality engagement that will increase visibility of legitimate questions/research requests, etc. Cool?
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Sure... and stop 3 day banning long time, well intended anons with solid reputations for submitting posts to the main board mods deem irrelevant
Simply ask them to MOVE IT to the proposed 'Weekly Chat' before deleting.
It's been waaaay too punitive and polarizing..
It's the long-time users who should know best how GAW is moderated. Being surprised or disappointed when these well-known policies are applied to them is illogical. What is your definition of 'policies'?
We don't issue 3-day bans for first offense/honest mistakes. We apply this policy in a sensibly selective way; if the frog is new and doesn't have a lot of usernotes, we'll do exactly what you said—we'll nicely ask them to move it to daily chat. But if they're long time anons with solid reputations but still somehow for some reason can't grok what they absolutely 100% know are the long-time rules or policy around here, we just give 1-day vacations, with this well-intentioned note:
It's unreal how many frogs can't seem to grok this basic policy. As it is, we still allow a LOT of text-based posts. We only apply this rule to the most eggregiously low-quality, low-effort posts.
Hopefully this new "Weekly Chat" idea will mitigate this.
I got a one day ban WITHOUT being "nicely" asked to move my post. Then got a bullshit sarcastic comeback when I challenged it....
My "egregiously low-quality, low effort posts" have comments from other members which tells me that my post are engaging someone...
Yeah shouldn't "egregiously low-quality, low effort posts" just fall off naturally by no one upvoting?
I guess it could potentially clog up "New", but that would only be if the person is making tons of said posts, in which case go ahead and do the ban.
But I don't have to moderate anything, so it's prob easy for me to criticize
As a user who posts original bullet point observations that create near universal consensus, I agree with you. Having them dismissed as 'shower thoughts' is insulting and counterproductive. Being banned for the same style I've employed since day one is frustrating. Recently, I had similiar posts get instant traction (20 upvotes in 10 minutes) only to have them deleted and a 3 day ban issued.
https://greatawakening.win/p/142BJnfi9k/putin-is-100-right-the-entire-wo/
https://greatawakening.win/p/141En1imSW/fauci-this-virus-fooled-everyone/
https://greatawakening.win/p/140J1KqnkC/gotta-be-30-not-guilty-submissio/