Hi everyone, absentee mod here! Looking to not be so absentee going forward.
When this magazine was kicked off, it was essentially cloned from the SquaredCircle subreddit. However, a lot of rules there were put in place because of the immense volume of traffic – the sub needed curation to weed out a bunch of meh posts and those who were karma-seeking. But we don’t need to mirror that, and in fact, it may be better to open the doors a bit so that more people feel comfortable posting new threads.
We wouldn’t be looking to change the rules related to civility, trolling, hate speech, or spoilers. But feel free to leave your feedback on your thoughts on these other rules:
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Derailing a thread: I’m not sure that rule is needed – if the conversation becomes uncivil, that’s its own rule broken.
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Low effort: we’re not enforcing this much now as it stands with low volume, but give your thoughts on post quality concerns. Personally I wouldn’t want to keep single responses that are easily found on a Google search, but beyond that, where to draw the line?
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Memes: some people love that r/SC didn’t allow them and kept them contained to another subreddit. Do you have thoughts on memes?
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Not related to wrestling: we could change this definition. Politics are allowed on r/SC. Personal photos with wrestlers are not. Where would you like to see the line drawn?
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Clickbait/vague titles: do you want to see those continue to be removed? This somewhat falls under the quality discussion.
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Sexualized content: I don’t see this changing (as in, none) but hey, let your thoughts known
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Sources: I think we should keep the same sources banned as on r/SC because they have harassed and doxxed users in the past – they’re banned for everyone’s benefit. The other rule was “link to the primary source” instead of an article/tweet quoting another article, with the exception being original transcripts of podcasts. Any thoughts on this?
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Any rules we don’t have but should?
Feel free to voice any other opinions (I know there have been conversations about mods in general, I’m working on that) but moderating starts with rules, so let’s hear your thoughts!
I like the idea of low effort Fridays for something casual; that way it wouldn’t be overused but it would be something to do for fun (obviously not like spam or overly low effort posts but some are nice). I guess memes could also be along these lines too. I don’t like it always but it’s nice to just unwind and let your hair down sometimes :)
Honestly it’s been really chill here but I think keeping the same banned sources both places would be easier to manage!
Maybe memes on Thursday? It would let people share any memes created during the previous SD/Collision/PPV/Raw/Dynamite. There isn’t a huge wrestling presence on Thursdays either and it would help give us something of an identity and something to look forward to.
Either that or Sundays at the end of the week, except when an event is happening but ROH and Impact don’t necessarily get a lot of chatter so Thursday works too!
I love the idea of having ‘special’ days. I was thinking a ‘fantasy booking’ thread might be fun (ie. “Fantasy Book: Miro’s Return to AEW”) where each week we pick one wrestler and users plot out how they’d book that wrestler. Could be a fun writing prompt for those of us who enjoy doing that kind of thing.