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I tried asking this in /outoftheloop but I couldn't get an answer.

A thing I have noticed when people talk about srs, is that they think it is somehow unfair that the give gold button is hidden.

Why is that? What does a subreddit have to gain from hiding that button?

I've seen it being used and upvoted a lot in a lot of reddit threads. Is it because of "reddit liberals"? I thought SRS calls them "brogressives"?

Thanks in advance

SRS already tells users not to downvote linked posts and using NP links requires almost no effort would probably reduce the number of people on reddit who complain about "SRS brigading".

http://www.reddit.com/r/ShitRedditSays/comments/5drwg6/thats_called_the_rodeo_you_are_supposed_to_see/da6tpn0/

This has been ongoing for months. Her Imgur account is probably overflowing with these useless screenshots of age confirmation pages.

I'm still not very sure if I should downvote or upvote when I like something. I guess I downvote, because it shows everything in negatives. So I assume it's just the opposite of the regular system. So does that mean if a post has positive upvotes, then it's disliked?

But can someone confirm this? And what do they mean when they say "brigading ourselves".

Why are half of the mods in SRS been inactive for months or even years? Also what is SRSBroke? Is it against SRS or is it just a funny page since some mods are shared?

I still have yet to find out the origins of some. Such as, "the whites have worse reproductive strategy than ducks or dolphins". I ixquicked it but pretty much only SRS comes up.

Speaking of dolphins, where does the dolphin in the footer and other places come from? Dolphins are cool and I would like to know how are they involved with SRS. (I mean, they're not actually narwhals castrated by feminism, right?)

I don't know what really the origins of BRD. I know it's the name of the bird and a backronym for "bring reddit down". But where did it come from and why? What species is it? Just BRD? Or is it an ability toucan that abandoned those who didn't deserve it?

You know the image that says "Funny Joaks, Ron Paul etc."

Perhaps it should be updated to say "Donald Trump" instead of "Ron Paul" now that Drumpf has long since taken Ronny's place as preferred political candidate of racist Reddit shitbags

Just a thought, anyway.

DAE feel like SRSDiscussion feels more like SRSCriticism? Most of the higher upvoted comments and threads are about criticizing some aspect of social justice viewpoints. The only difference between it and the rest of reddit is it's supposedly 'internal' criticism rather than external.

I thought SRSDiscussion was going to be a tightly moderated place where social justice people could get together and have serious discussions to further social justice, build our arguments, and have an alternative community to construct a counter-narrative to the seemingly endless number of anti-SJ communities on reddit. Not yet another place where SJ is criticized and ripped apart.

I would love to post some screenshots but there doesn't really seem to be a completely safe place to do that. I don't really feel like posting it in a large, non-srs sub just to be ridiculed/called an SJW or some other bullshit.

Check out the new /r/SRSDiscussion! When we made the decision to close the sub, we did so in order to begin a long-overdue overhaul to the entire sub. This ended up being a project that grew larger and larger, as we overhauled not only the appearance of the sub, but a lot of “under the hood” stuff too.

Here are some of the changes we have implemented:

• New CSS, which will hopefully make the subreddit more pleasant to use
• New sidebar, which is shorter than the old one, but also contains a lot of very useful information. Please, please, take a moment to read it.
• Code of Conduct, a set of guidelines and general rules for participants in this space. We hope that these will help lay out the standards for what we consider to be acceptable behaviour in SRSDiscussion, which has been the cause of many disputes in the past.
• Posting guidelines, as a general baseline for new discussion threads
• New community initiaties, starting with a weekly general chat thread. These non-discussion threads will still be moderated, however.
• Effortpost archives on our wiki.
• Resource compilation, now also on our wiki.

We will also be sending out an application for new mods, so keep your eyes peeled for that.

Have fun!

I thought about this before but seeing this post on the front page made me want to post about it. How many upvotes, how much support, does a comment need to have to distinguish it from what reddit says versus what a redditor says? A comment with only 20 upvotes when the post has over 4k upvotes doesn't feel like it is very representative of reddit just a select few shitty redditors. Surely we could all agree a comment with only 5 or so upvotes shouldn't be posted because it has so little support on reddit and I feel that 20 is that far away.

I was thinking of setting a minimum of 100 upvotes would be a little more representative of reddit.

Hey folks,

I am not an SRS regular, but check in every once in a while (more frequently during political season when I just have to take a breather every day or two...).

Is it just me, or have the comments in SRS gotten less overtly snarky and more serious over time? I feel like I'm seeing less sarcasm, less memes, etc., and more serious critique. The jerk being broken seems to be closer to the rule than the exception.

Am I wrong? Or did I miss something?

Now that /r/srsdiscussion is on indefinite hiatus, I don't know of any place on reddit to just talk about things in general in a space that, if not safe, is at least not outright terrible. Openbroke and circlebroke are decent from what I've seen, but they focus on reddit. Is there anywhere that's just a place for people who meet the minimum standard of decent human being to talk?

In other words, what are some subreddits where this question would be appropriate?

Srs mods have good taste

Are ideas still being tossed around? Are mods implementing changes? Is it suspended for a cool off period? What's going on?

It seems that for pretty much every thread on /r/shitredditsays, the link to SRScharts posted by the bot at the bottom just takes me to a page that says "I don't know about that comment - try again later?". It doesn't appear to matter how old the thread is (except that very new threads may not have the bot post yet). Does this happen for anyone else? If so, are there any plans to fix it?

/r/stuffredditsays

I feel like it has potential but not sure what direction we should take. Any and all ideas are welcome :)

https://www.reddit.com/r/announcements/comments/434h6c/reddit_in_2016/czfdwm4

Archive: http://archive.is/wctj3

Hi Spez how does a brigading subreddit like /r/shitredditsays still exist? They constantly brigade posts and harass reddit users. I was personally harassed by private message by srs users.

^[citation ^needed]

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Reddit's CEO /u/Spez responds:

The accusations of brigading we have investigated many times, and the data just doesn't support the claims.

If you're being personally harassed, please report the users by clicking the report button and reporting them to r/reddit.com modmail.

[-347] and still falling, 2 days later!

Please let me know if there's a better subreddit to post this on.

So I want to start my own subreddit, but I never have nor have I ever modded. I know nothing about that side of Reddit or the rules up and down for modding. But I've been on Reddit a long time (I remake accounts a lot), and I am pretty familiar with it.

I am going to try and avoid being long winded, but I will organize my reasoning so it is easy to read.

Here's the basic jist of it:

I have noticed some problematic and concerning things on the /r/relationships subreddit for years (I admit, I do enjoy the drama) and it frequently disturbs me.

1. There is a lot of very negative, vengeful and black & white advice on that sub, and the user base is generally hostile.

2. It is very "good guy" vs. "bad guy", and a lot of trends and group think tends to circulate around there that frankly, I feel are based off too many assumptions and submitter bias.

3. The moderation is very weak and unhelpful to the toxicity.

4. But worst of all, I feel /r/relationships is downright dangerous for victims of abuse.

To expand on my last point:

I am in no way trying to appeal to authority, but I am decently well versed in domestic violence and sexual assault and this culture on /r/relationships greatly concerns me. I see a lot of negative and aggressive language towards submitters who describe an abusive situation. OPs are frequently downvoted.

This can be seen as discouragement for victims. As I will expand on shortly, victims approach accepting the reality of abuse generally slowly- many are in denial. A common trait of "victim mentality" is denial and silence. Victims fear the worst when coming out to friends and family. A judgmental and hostile atmosphere discourages a victim to continue to open up and can often drive them back into their abusers arms.

I am in no way trying to say victims are weak. I have been in their shoes, I have experienced victim mentality first thing. Despite being academically informed as well as experience in the very field, I still became a victim. It is one hell of an experience, and helping someone in that situation generally involves being informed on how to properly help.

Why I think we need a general relationship sub instead of referring victims to subs like /r/domesticviolence:

I genuinely believe a better modded version of /r/relationships can help people. Victims struggle with accepting abuse, part of the process of victims leaving abusive situations involves very delicately approaching the subject. They subtely feel their support network, or reach out anonymously without directly using "abusive language". They are far more likely to go to a community about relationship advice than a community for domestic abuse advice, in the beginning stages a lot of victims are still in denial.

Why also think a generally healthier relationship advice community that is distanced from /r/relationships:

Note: I am also including /r/relationship_advice in this because they are officiated and tend to have similar problems though not as bad.

The /r/relationships community can be quite toxic. It's a pretty big joke around the rest of Reddit and something /r/relationships it's self.

• The mods are generally pretty inactive and deaf to the idea of improving the subreddit.

I believe the root issue is the mods, who do not enforce rules or tighten up and inform the community guidelines to avoid a toxic community, also refuse to allow meta discussion or user input to help solve the problems the sub has.

• There is a heavy petty revenge and punishment culture in the sub, as well.

I definitely do see a problem with the community treating the subreddit as an entertainment forum instead of a legitimate advice forum. I confess to this mindset as well. However, their comments often reflect this with irresponsible advice just to get an interesting update. Comments like: "it would be great if you did [insert clever revenge plot]." & "Please update if you do." are common.

Often the community also center their "advice" around punishment, which I definitely believe is a mindset that is very reflective of Reddit's general population. They are more concerned with "teaching someone a lesson" than offering genuine advice to help people better their situation and possibly themselves.

• I also believe the sub is inherently prejudiced.

Lots of the general Reddit opinion and bias leaks onto that sub. Very subtle micro aggression manifests frequently and makes it difficult to call out. Agendas definitely come out, and the sub is frequently invaded by /r/TRP and the like. Troll accounts post outlandish stories to create a narrative, and just general negative attitudes towards women and minorities emerge. It ties very closely in with creating that "bad guy" narrative, but also stands alone.

All in all, we need a better /r/relationship sub with heavy but helpful moderation actually set up to accomplish what /r/relationship transparently claims to stand for- helping people. Please, any insight, advice, suggestions, other areas of reddit i can talk to etc. would be greatly appreciated.

<3

Edit: The more I think about it, I think a general advice sub that actually offers compassionate, helpful and empathetic advice would be nice to have on Reddit & would funnel more traffic in. Thoughts?

I'm just curious to find out whether it's still undergoing renovations, or whether it's been permanently shut down.

By context, I mean Reddit's ability to display comments above the permalinked comment. This is Rule 4 under How To Post on the SRS sidebar.

By adding

?context=x 

to the end of a URL, you can display 'x' comments above the comment you linked. For example,

Direct Link: https://www.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/406571/uk_racists_are_stupid_obviously/cyrx1by

Two Comments for Context: https://www.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/406571/uk_racists_are_stupid_obviously/cyrx1by?context=2

It's just a nice Reddit feature that makes things slightly easier for your SRSters.

It was better without the "gator repellant" caption. when i first saw it without the text I was like "why is this here" and then i was like "OOOOOHHHHHHH I GET IT" but the text is just unnecessary and spoils the entire joke

I know it says it's down temporarily, but is there any more information about what changes are being made?

I need my favorite subreddit D: