/r/JRITSmod
JRITSmod talk
/r/JRITSmod
Its posts are pointless and annoying, as are the bots that follow it.
Maybe it is time for a rule that posts glamorizing unsafe 'jokes' need to be removed. After seeing a post today where someone thought it was funny to fire a 'cheetah' (bead seating air tank) at someone's face, I think it would be good to remove such posts, and potentially even ban users for more than one such offense (which I don't believe has happened yet). I don't think the sub should risk being a place that fosters such dangerous behavior that can maim and possibly kill people.
I've noticed some groups have custom report options maybe we could get a "report rule 1" option as most of the applicable posts are not really spam (at least by my definition)
Just a thought from the shitter at work
I've seen some that don't appear to break any rules at all, be locked, while 'spotted' posts go unreported and get literally thousands of upvotes and hundreds of comments. People complain about 10mm jokes and brake rotors and shredded tires, but I think the spotted posts and obvious facebook ripoffs are what truly define a 'shitpost' for JRITS.
Or maybe do some sort of sticky to help get it off the ground? It all started as a subthread of this thread. I suggested someone make a real sub of it, and they did: http://www.reddit.com/r/MechanicsAnonymous
I like the idea of being able to post funny discussions of one's follies.
We have a fair number of posters who are not professional techs, but make great contributions of the sort of failures and oddities that JRITS exists for. The rules currently say:
"Submissions must be something you saw that was odd and out of the ordinary for your work setting." (my emphasis)
Maybe a slight change should be made to recognize its not just for paid, professional techs? The point was brought up in this post. I think its a fair point to address. Maybe adding something more than just 'work setting' would make it clearer and fairer.